About the Role
Summit is seeking a senior DevOps Engineer to join the Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) Ground Sustainment Services (LGSS) program to sustain and enhance the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Common Ground System (CGS). The JPSS CGS is responsible for implementing JPSS Program command, control, and communications and data processing requirements for JPSS CGS-serviced missions. The JPSS is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) next-generation operational Earth observation Program that acquires and distributes global environmental data from multiple polar-orbiting satellites, playing a critical role to NOAA’s mission to understand and predict changes in weather, climate, oceans, coasts, and space environments, which supports the Nation’s economy and protection of lives and property. This position is a fully remote position.
Requirements
Responsibilities:
Provide Tier 3 support to a Linux Kubernetes environment
Build/deploy/troubleshoot Kubernetes-based applications
Development of CI/CD Build and Deployment Pipelines
Write/modify Jenkins-based Groovy scripts
Write/update CloudFormation scripts
Troubleshoot pipeline issues across Jenkins and AWS Environments (Linux EC2, RDS, CloudFormation, ElasticSearch, etc.)
Document key features for developer use
Help write and maintain scripts for process improvements (e.g., stage/un-stage builds, branch tag automation, automating variance corrections across networks)
Integrate tools into the pipeline
Work with the development teams to bring in new microservices into the pipeline. Helping to troubleshoot as necessary.
Work through steps to automate installations of COTS products into the architecture
Debugging integration issues
Help identify issues in the deployment (i.e., potentially intermittent connectivity issues from an API Server to the Database)
Monitor (and help develop scripts to monitor) the AWS services to ensure everything is functioning as necessary
DevOps Tool Integration
Help integrate with various tools for the DevOps process (SonarQube, Fortify, Jenkins, Robot Framework/Selenium, Artifactory, etc.)
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of experience, or a Master’s degree with 6+ years, or a PhD and 3+ years of experience; 4 additional years of experience can be counted in lieu of degree
Experienced using Kubernetes
Familiar with DevOps Practices
Knowledgeable in terraform
Knowledgeable in AWS
Experience with Linux Environments
Experience with scripting languages, such as Bash and Python
Strong problem solving, analytical, and technical troubleshooting skills
Experience with Git for Source Control
Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance
Experience developing, deploying, monitoring, and troubleshooting Cloud-based software solutions
Experience integrating Jenkins and Docker for automated CI/CD pipelines
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