What you will be doing

The DevOps Engineer shall be responsible for implementing a Zero-touch provisioning (ZTP) solution as part of an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for complex High Performance Computing Systems. DevOps activities include requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, and sustainment. The primary focus is integrating COTS and FOSS products, packages, and libraries. The DevOps Engineer must have a demonstrated understanding of the software development lifecycle.

Position Required Skills

• Experience using the Linux CLI
• Experience with scripting using Bash/Python
• Experience with IaC (Infrastructure as Code) principles and automation tools such as
• Ansible, SaltStack, and Terraform
• Experience with CI/CD principles, methodologies, and tools such as GitLab CI and Jenkins
• Experience developing with multiple programming languages such as C/C++, Java, Go, and Python in a Linux environment
• Experience with software frameworks used for searching, monitoring, and analyzing big data such as Splunk and Elastic Stack
• Experience with SQL technologies such as MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL
• Experience with NoSQL technologies such as MongoDB and Elasticsearch
• Experience with designing, implementing, and using REST and/or RPC APIs
• Experience with Git Source Control System

Position Desired Skills

• Experience with Messaging Frameworks such as Kafka, ActiveMQ, and RabbitMQ
• Experience with tools used for metrics visualization such as Grafana and Kibana
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker
• Experience with the Atlassian Tool Suite (JIRA, Confluence)

Clearance:
Active TS/SCI with an appropriate polygraph is required to be considered for this role

Additional Information:

• Analyze user requirements to derive software design and performance
• Debug existing software and correct
• Design and code new software or modify existing software to add new
• Write or review software and system
• Integrate existing software into new or modified systems or operating
• Develop simple data queries for existing or proposed databases or data
• Software development using languages such as C, C++, Python, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript,
• Has experience with agile development
• Has experience with source code control systems, such as
• Serve as team lead at the level appropriate to the software development process being used on any particular
• Design and development of relational and non-relational database
• Use of orchestration frameworks such as Spring and
• Familiarization with queue management systems
• Develop or implement algorithms to meet or exceed system performance and functional
• Develop and execute test procedures for software
• Develop software solutions by analyzing system performance standards and conferring with users or system engineers; analyzing systems flow, data usage and work processes; and investigating problem
• Modify existing software to adapt to new hardware or to improve its performance
• Design, develop, and modify software systems using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcomes and consequences of design decisions
• Java development using the Eclipse IDE (Integrated Development Environment).
• Development of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications
• Experience using collaboration and software development tools (ie. Atlassian).
• Software development using continuous integration practices
• Experience with container technologies (ie. Docker).
• Unix shell scripting
• Development of event driven or data driven analytics
• Development of cloud-based solutions and technologies.
• Design or implement complex algorithms requiring adherence to strict timing, system resource, or interface constraints. Perform quality control on team products.
• Recommend and implement suggestions for improving documentation and software development process standards.
• Oversee one or more software development teams and ensure the work is completed in accordance with the constraints of the software development process being used on any particular project.
• Confer with system engineers and hardware engineers to derive software requirements and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements, and interfaces.
• Coordinate software installation on a system and monitor performance to ensure operational specifications are met.
• Recommend new technologies and processes for complex software projects.
• Serve as the technical lead of multiple software development teams.
• Select the software development process in coordination with the customer and system engineering.
• Ensure quality control of all developed and modified software.
• Delegate programming and testing responsibilities to one or more teams and monitor their performance.

**COVID-19 Vaccination: Praxis does not have a vaccination mandate applicable to all employees. To protect the health and safety of its employees and to comply with customer requirements, however, Praxis may require employees in certain positions to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Vaccination requirements will depend on the status of the federal contractor mandate and customer site requirements.**

Who are we?
Praxis Engineering* was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Annapolis Junction MD - with growing offices in Chantilly VA and Aberdeen MD.

Praxis Engineering is a consulting, product, and solutions firm dedicated to the practical application of software and system engineering technologies to solve complex problems.

With over 350 employees supporting more than 50 contracts, Praxis brings together world class engineers with proven engineering best practices, domain expertise, commercial technologies and proven agile management approaches to create high value solutions aimed at helping our customers meet their most critical business and mission objectives.

• Praxis Engineering is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics IT.

Why Praxis?
We are focused on continual learning and evolution. We don’t do things because “that’s the way we’ve always done things”; we listen to our employees and adapt to the changing marketplace. We look at the big picture and encourage our engineers to get training and certifications in emerging technologies that will help shape our customer’s mission. We've been profitable year after year. We're always on the lookout for great engineers to join the team and we recognize that our employees are the heart and soul of what we do. We focus on recruiting talented people, treating them right, and then allowing them to do what they do best. No red tape. No micromanagement. Smart people want to work with smart people, and we love people who are passionate about what they do, and finding ways to do it better.

And then there is the...

Benefits

• Attractive total compensation package to include competitive salary and medical benefits with an option for FREE employee HSA medical plan!
• Office perks such as free soft drinks and snacks (both healthy and not-so-healthy)
• Praxis swag (annual gift certificate to purchase top brand Praxis apparel)
• Comprehensive health insurance plans to include FREE Employee HSA Medical plan.
• Parental leave
• 401k contribution/match: combination of profit share/contribution (3.5%) and employer match (up to 4.5%) for a total of 8%.
• Annual bonus plan
• Four weeks Paid Time Off (to start!) + 10 holidays + comp time eligibility. Additional 1 week added on 5 year anniversary (5 weeks of PTO altogether) and 10 year anniversary (6 weeks of PTO altogether)
• Training is a priority! Take advantage of our endless in-house training opportunities - or seek out vendor offered (paid) training opportunities like conferences, certification courses and seminars.
  • Conferences (recently attended by Praxis employees): AWS Summit, IoT World, Black Hat and DefCon.
  • Training & Certifications: Splunk, AWS, Big Data/Cloudera, VMWare, Scrum Master...the list of certifications goes on and on!
  • Praxis University: Cyber Research, Data Analytics, IoT, AWS and RedHat course offerings and hands-on training.
• We truly believe the right work-life balance can exist, and it's here at Praxis. Our work is extremely important, but your job is just a part of who you are. When you enjoy your life outside of our walls, you're at your best the next time you walk through our doors. We do all we can to assure that happens every day.

Praxis Engineering provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, or any other protected class.