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Cleared Senior DevOps Engineer

Charlottesville, Virginia

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Overview

General Atomics pioneers technologies with the potential to change the world. Behind a talented global team of engineers, GA delivers safe, sustainable, and economical solutions to meet growing global demands. Our Engineers have an opportunity to work on first of a kind product lines within an incredible, dynamic environment.

Engineering positions typically require a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree or PhD in engineering or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution and progressive engineering experience. Candidates from mechanical, electrical, and aerospace engineering backgrounds must know the fundamentals of engineering system developments, requirements, testing, and integration before getting to the final stages of customer interface and project management.

  • Schedule: Full-Time Salary

  • Job Level: Senior (8+ years)

  • Travel: 0 - 25

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Job ID 47570BR Company GA CCRi Experience Level Senior (8+ years) Job Title Cleared Senior DevOps Engineer City Charlottesville State Virginia Workstyle Onsite Full-Time/Part-Time Full-Time Salary Salary Range $98,100 - $171,398

Job Summary

GA-CCRi maintains and deploys production systems for users across the Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, and commercial industry. We build and develop best-in-class all domain and globally focused situational awareness capabilities that process petabytes of data from numerous streaming data sources in near real time. Our systems apply state-of-the-art algorithms and machine learning techniques to extract features and fuse data from multiple phenomenologies to form a rich live view of objects in the sky, on the sea, and on the ground. These analytics are designed to determine not just where something is, but what it is, where it's been and what it's doing. All of this "data to knowledge" is made available to end users in our own browser-based application for visualization, analysis, and understanding. We always want to do more, and that's where you come in!

GA-CCRi is looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineers with Top Secret/SCI clearance to manage the configuration, deployment and maintenance of one or multiple environments. The ability to maintain a production system in a high uptime environment is a key success factor. Join our growing team in taking our systems to the next level, giving end-users the power to see beyond the data and truly understand the world around them.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Under general direction, this position is responsible for maintaining development, testing, and production environments.
  • Builds and deploys automation, monitoring, and analysis solutions.
  • Manages continuous integration and delivery pipeline to maximize efficiency.
  • Implements industry best practices for system hardening and configuration management.
  • Develops and maintains solutions for operational administration, system/data backup, disaster recovery, and security/performance monitoring.
  • Continuously evaluates existing systems with industry standards, and makes recommendations for improvement.
  • Builds and maintains tools, solutions and microservices associated with deployment and our operations platform, ensuring that all meet our customer service standards and reduce errors.
  • Tests system integrity, implemented designs, application developments and other processes related to infrastructure, making improvements as needed.
  • Manages code deployments, fixes, updates and related processes.
  • Works with open-source technologies as needed.
  • Works with CI/ CD tools, and source control such as GIT and SVN.
  • Offers technical support where needed, developing software for our back-end systems.
  • Stays current with industry trends and source new ways for our business to improve.


We recognize and appreciate the value and contributions of individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences and welcome all qualified individuals to apply.


Job Qualifications:
  • U.S. citizenship and active Top Secret security clearance, SCI eligible, and willing to take a CI polygraph.
  • Typically requires a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and nine years of related experience.
  • Experience with deployment technologies, such as Kubernetes (K8s) for container orchestration.
  • Experience with metrics monitoring and dashboards (Grafana).
  • Understanding of user access practices and security controls within a system.
  • Understanding of system administration in various OS environments.
  • Strong knowledge of configuration management tools.
  • Strong communication and documentation skills.
  • Understanding of software development lifecycle best practices.
  • Must be able to work both independently and in a team environment. 
  • Able to work extended hours as required. 

PREFERRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

  • Understanding of AWS services and cloud management.
  • Experience executing against database technologies.
  • Experience with configuration management tools (Puppet).
  • Continuous integration processes and tools such as Jenkins.
  • Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and collaboration tools.
  • System monitoring and analysis.
  • Familiarity with Intelligence Community and DoD mission sets.
  • CompTIA Security+ certification or willingness to get certified.

Salary:$98,100 - $171,398
Travel Percentage Required 0 - 25 Relocation Assistance Provided Provided US Citizenship Required? Yes Clearance Required? Yes Clearance Level Top Secret (current SCI access with CI Poly)
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Benefits

  • Healthcare

  • Pension, 401(k)/Retirement Plans

  • Competitive Pay

  • Multiple product lines means a variety of work

  • Paid Time Off

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“The company is growing, has a very good reputation and had open positions in my area of expertise (aircraft design/design methodology development).”
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