DEVOPS Engineer
Contingent Upon Customer Approval
Purpose:
- Valkyrie Enterprises is in immediate need of a Devops Engineer. This role will support the Navy Continuous Training Environment (NCTE) Program.
- The primary focus will be building and maintaining a software pipeline structure to automate the process of building, testing, and deploying software within the Navy Training Baseline (NTB).
- This position is located in Norfolk, VA.
Job Description:
- Perform a variety of systematic, disciplined, and quantifiable approaches to the development, operation, and maintenance of software systems supporting the Navy Continuous Training Environment (NCTE).
- Understand the DevOps lifecycle from infrastructure and building, to monitoring and operating a product or service.
- Maintain a software pipeline structure to support nightly software builds.
- Implement testing schemes with build pipeline tools.
- Ensure tool licenses do not lapse.
- Ensure tools remain accredited to reside in the NCTE network.
- Manage quarterly releases and provide government-approved release notes for each quarterly NTB release, and update all public-facing pages and documentation to reflect new releases.
- Conduct large-scale software deployments, or monitoring and testing, such as Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).
- Write shell scripts to automate relevant tasks and implement advanced software development practices and agile development practices such as code reviews using source control.
- Work with container security technologies, evaluating and mitigating or resolving vulnerability findings.
- Guide Software development and deployment and prepare system engineering management plans and system integration and test plans.
- Work with the Development team to configure and deploy the CI/CD tools and ensure that the CI/CD tools are used effectively.
- Implement Quality Assurance (QA) automation to improve the speed, efficacy, and output of testing methodologies.
- Interact with the Government regarding problems, issues or conflicts.
- Communicate and collaborate effectively with the Software team, Project Managers, and Customers.
- Understand, and be able to use, tools that span the DevOps lifecycle from infrastructure and building, to monitoring and operating a product or service.
Qualifications:
- Must have High School Diploma or equivalent and at least 5 years of relevant DevOps experience.
- Must have experience with building and supporting DevOps tools and CI/CD Pipelines
- Must have experience with automation and configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, or Ansible.
- Must have experience with the container orchestration tools, such as Docker Swarm or Kubernetes.
- Must have experience with containerization, building images and orchestrating deployments in Kubernetes
- Must have experience using SonarQube for code analysis.
- Must have experience with CI/CD tools, such as Jenkins.
- Must have experience with version control management using Git and GitLab is essential for efficient collaboration and code management.
- Must have experience developing custom applications and supporting them in a production environment.
- Must possess the necessary training, qualifications, and experience for the IAT-II level at a minimum in accordance with SECNAV M-5239.2 and DoD 8140/8570. (ex. CompTia Sec+)
Desired Qualifications:
- Relevant work experience as a DevOps engineer within a U.S. Government environment, DoD strongly preferred.
- Knowledge of systems design/development lifecycle (SDLC), software systems theory and engineering principles, network/systems design and implementation, and virtualization preffered.
Security Requirements:
- Must have active Secret Security Clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain an Active Top Secret/ SCI security clearance.
- Must be able show proof of US Citizenship.
Travel Requirements:
- Up to 25% travel required or as needed.
- If position requires travel by domestic flight or access to secure federal facilities/military bases, candidate must be able to obtain (by start of position) and maintain appropriate identification credentials, such as REAL ID. (More information regarding REAL ID can be found: https://www.dhs.gov/real-id )
Physical Requirements:
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50%.
- Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine and computer printer.
- The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
Valkyrie strictly adheres to a policy of equal employment opportunity. This policy is based on Valkyrie's commitment to hire and retain qualified employees consistent with position requirements; and to seek, employ, promote and treat all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy, childbirth, physical disability, mental disability, age, military status or protected veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner or civil union status, gender (including sex stereotyping and gender identity or expression), medical condition, genetic information or sexual orientation or other protected characteristics.
Additionally, Valkyrie Enterprises provides a variety of benefits to eligible employees to support your best health, wellness, and future, to include medical/dental/vision options, company paid life and disability insurances, 401(k) with match, education reimbursement, as well as company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).
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Valkyrie Enterprises Inc.
paid time off, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, 401(k)
May 15, 2025