DevOps Engineer

At ARA, we strive to hire valuable colleagues with not only the right skills, but who also demonstrate our core values of passion, freedom, service, and growth. As a DevOps Engineer on our team, you are the backbone of our strategic initiatives and will be responsible for developing technology critical to the success of our projects as well as national security.

This position supports the development and deployment of software tools that assist warfighters in planning for combat missions, simulating weapons effects against high-priority targets, and then communicating solutions. You will work with a multi-disciplinary, collaborative team composed of software, cloud, and security engineers as well as end-users to create these critically important applications using the next generation of 3D graphics, fast-running physics-based models, and geospatial assets.

As a valued team contributor, your tasks will include updating and improving existing development infrastructure, performing continuous monitoring tasks of production environments, creating new and updating existing Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment DevOps pipelines, automating the provisioning of build VM's and Kubernetes clusters, addressing security findings found in SAST/DAST/Image Scans, and much more.

Due to the work you'll perform and interactions with intelligence community and DoD programs you must be a US citizen and will need to be eligible to apply for and hold a DoD Secret Security Clearance (selected applicants will undergo a security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements at the time of employment).

Remote work is available but Raleigh, NC or San Antonio, TX is preferred.

DevOps Engineer Required Education and/or Experience:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science along with 5-7 years of related experience OR 3-5 years of experience with a Master's Degree.

DevSecOps Engineer Required Technology & Skills:

Successful candidates will possess an extensive background in 3 or more of the following as well as demonstrate a strong desire to learn 3 or more of these skill sets:

• CI system (TeamCity, Jenkins, Gitlab, or equivalent)
• 1+ year Modern Programming Language (JavaScript, Java, C++, or Python) + Shell scripting experience (Bash)
• 2+ years Linux experience (RHEL or Ubuntu preferred)
• Docker containerization
• Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, etc)
• Experience with Atlassian Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket plus Git experience
• A team player personality with excellent communication skills will be essential

Required Certifications (or able to obtain):

• AWS Certification (any Solutions Architect, Developer, SysOps, DevOps)
• CompTIA Security+ (or DoD 8570 equivalent)

Preferred Experience & Skills as a DevOps Engineer:

Above all, we value passion, a desire to learn, and teamwork. We are confident that if you possess the right attitude, work ethic, and skill set you could succeed in this role. In addition to the experience and skills above, if you have any of the following you will be able to accelerate your effectiveness and impact.

• Security clearance (minimum ability to obtain DoD Secret Clearance)
• Experience working with REST APIs via curl and Postman
• Developing Infrastructure as Code (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
• Mitigation of security vulnerabilities (CVE, etc)
• Working with Static and Dynamic Code Analysis tools (SAST/DAST)
• Performing container image scanning
• Working in a modern software lifecycle (Agile, etc)
• Working with code repositories (Bitbucket/GitHub/GitLab)
• Kubernetes Day 2 Operations, defining YAML, Helm Charts, Rancher/RKE2/K3S
• Familiarity with GitOps tools (FluxCD or ArgoCD)
• VMWare virtual machines (Desktop and ESXi)
• Self-starter, able to get tasks done with minimal assistance
• A strong desire to continuously learn new technology
• Portfolio of personal/hobby projects on GitHub

Anticipated salary range: $80,000-$120,000. Offer may vary depending on experience and skill set.

Who is ARA?

Do you want to work for a purpose? Applied Research Associates, Inc. (aka ARA) is an employee-owned international research and engineering company. We have been providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences since 1979. ARA has over 1,700 employee-owners and continues to grow rapidly. Together, our offices throughout the U.S. and Canada provide a broad range of technical expertise in defense, civil, and health technologies, computer software and simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and testing and measurement.

ARA also prides itself, on having a challenging culture where innovation & experimentation are the norms. The motto, "Engineering and Science for Fun and Profit" sums up the ARA experience. Employee ownership ensures you have a voice in what happens in the company. We are also very proud of our Women's Initiative Network (WIN), whose purpose is to motivate, support, and encourage professional career development for women to maximize career and professional accomplishments.

To find out more about what the Software Enterprise Division has to offer, visit our website at: https://www.ara.com/benefits/

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)