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Department Summary:

MITRE’s Enterprise Computing, Information, and Security Center is seeking a DevOps Engineer. This position is an exciting and challenging opportunity for a motivated technical candidate seeking to be part of a collaborative team that leverages automation to deliver infrastructure services for the organization. This specific role will focus on configuration and compliance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Automation of System Tasks via PowerShell / BASH / Ruby / etc.
• Design and sustain our enterprise Configuration Management Framework (Chef Ecosystem).
• Peer review industry/corporate code for best practices around compliance management, automated testing, and configuration management.
• Participation in an Agile development team.
• Collaborate with project teams to support infrastructure scalability and performance.

• Ability to work escalated vendor support cases to resolution.
• Project focused tasking and support with some day-to-day operational responsibilities.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience writing code in PowerShell or BASH scripting languages.
• Experience with debugging code.
• Background with task tracking and knowledge management systems. Ex: Jira, Confluence, Gitlab.
• Understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery workflows.
• Experience with version control systems and Infrastructure as Code practice. Ex: git, svn.
• Software development with an object-oriented language Ex: Ruby, Python, Go.
• Ability to work with a project team to ensure timely deliverable completion.
• Knowledge of *NIX systems.
• Able to independently troubleshoot issues via reading logs and searching knowledge bases.
• Basic knowledge of Networking (DNS, DHCP, Firewalls, CIDR Notation, etc.).
• Basic knowledge of Virtualization and Physical / Virtual Hardware / Right Sizing.
• Use of SSH to manage systems.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with Ruby and Chef.
• Experience with continuous delivery of applications and services.
• Experience with delivering infrastructure through industry best practice of Configuration Management Frameworks (CMF) and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL), centos or similar distribution.
• NIX operating systems administration and troubleshooting.
• Object Oriented Software development skill with a strong interest in Infrastructure Automation.
• Bachelor’s degree with 1-2 years of relevant experience

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

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