Site Reliability Engineering; SRE Automation and Orchestration Engineer

Position: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Automation and Orchestration Engineer DescriptionThe U.S. Navy’s Service Management, Integration, and Transport (SMIT) program has an opening for a Site Reliability Automation and Orchestration Engineer on a high-visibility DoD program that provides engineering support to the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI), the largest information technology (IT) network in the world. This position will provide many opportunities to challenge and grow your skills.This person should be a seasoned, self-motivated, professional with hands-on engineering and testing experience in virtualized or on-prem environments. A skilled technician knowledgeable and experienced in infrastructure as code environments, automating patches and system configurations, orchestrating network operations and Dev Ops pipelines, automating and orchestrating operations, scaling releases, and day-to-day system operations in commercial cloud and on-prem environments.Primary Responsibilities:Provide continuous development and continuous integration to include site reliability engineering and integration, release management, implementation & migration, and training & knowledge transferSRE Engineering and Integration:Automate routine tasks and software updates, document, and maintain functional, integration, security, and load/stress testing procedureDocument and deliver an approach for automated acceptance testing, integration/regression testing, all new applications, and all new capabilitiesDevelop Ansible playbook design, role development, and testing, in non-production environments, as well as migration to production networksRelease Management:Participate in the development of the release management process, procedures, and policiesEstablish, manage, update, and maintain the overall Release Management Plan and Release ScheduleConduct site surveys, as necessary, to assess existing equipment and software being used to validate release package requirements and dependenciesTraining & Knowledge TransferDevelop, document, and maintain work instruction materials for related Automation and Orchestration processesProvide training when substantive technological changes are introducedRequired QualificationsBS and 4 to 8 years of hands-on site reliability engineering automation, ideally with federal government; add'l experience may be considered in lieu of degreeIAT Level II Baseline Certification (e.g. CCNA Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP)Experience working in a Dev Ops, Continuous Delivery (CICD), and Agile environments using code delivery mechanisms, continuous build systems, code repositories, and continuous delivery solutionsSecret ClearanceMust be a US CitizenMust be able to support program execution in classified environments and access SIPRNet from an NMCI location on short notice (local travel).Experience with automated script design, coding, debugging, and maintenance skills (using bash, python, etc.) preferredExperience in CI/CD toolsets (e.g. Jenkins, Git Lab, etc.)Experience with Containerization (Docker) and Container Orchestration (Kubernetes)Experience with chaos engineering practices and tools such as Chaos Monkey, Gremlin, or similar frameworks.Good command of Linux/Unix and command line knowledgeExperience in application administration, configuration, and integrationFamiliarity with agile development methodologiesSkilled and disciplined to work with a distributed teamAbility to work in a highly collaborative, forward thinking, and innovation-driven environmentKnowledge of Agile and Dev Sec Ops /SRE concepts and best practices, with a desire to grow that knowledgeHand-on experience with Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc.).Experience creating JIRA and/or Azure Dev Ops workflows, projects, custom configurationsExperience administrating/maintaining SRE platform via Ansible playbooks (e.g. upgrading Jenkins)Experience in automating tasks with scripting languages like Power Shell, or PythonIntegrating/maintaining with various 3rd party CI/CD tools like Jenkins and Gitlab.Experience with PaaS using Red Hat Open Shift/Kubernetes and Docker containersExperience with commercial cloud infrastructure deployment environments such as…