Senior DevOps Engineer

For more details, please connect with Kajal Verma at kajalv@vgroupinc.com or call at 609-564-2786.

End Client: Naval Postgraduate School (NPS)

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Duration: 6 Months Contract + Possible Extension

Hours Per Week: 800 hours per 6-month period

Location: Remote

Ceipal ID: FED_AWS026_KV

Job Code: 11122026

Department: Defense Analysis

Scope of Project:

The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), under its Defense Analysis department, requires a Senior DevOps Engineer to support the Global ECCO (Education Community Collaboration Online) program.

Global ECCO enables communication, collaboration, and continued education among members of the Regional Defense Fellowship Program (RDFP). The project involves developing, maintaining, and deploying mission-centric web applications in AWS cloud infrastructure that support classroom strategic exercises at NPS and other RDFP-funded schoolhouses.

The selected resource will be responsible for maintaining and improving existing production applications, managing AWS infrastructure, integrating new applications, supporting exercise facilitation deployments, and developing an offline-capable version of the strategic exercise system.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the Global ECCO online strategic exercise system application currently in production use.
• Manage the configuration of Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides the infrastructure in which the online strategic exercise system application exists.
• Develop and maintain the support services for the Global ECCO exercise coordination software currently in production use.
• Assist outside developers with integration into the exercise system of any new or reskinned exercises.
• Develop and maintain server-side applications for exercises built by outside developers.
• Support Global ECCO team deployments for exercise facilitations.
• Create temporary accounts in exercise coordination software when needed.
• Scale up services based on size of facilitation.
• Resolve identified issues related to facilitation technical checks in advance of event.
• Provide documentation and training to Global ECCO team members about developed applications.
• Attend and participate in weekly and bi-weekly meetings to provide status updates and test applications.
• Work with end users to identify and troubleshoot issues associated with the online strategic exercise system.
• Develop and maintain a functional and deployable version of the online strategic exercise system that can be used offline in the field.
• Create a monthly report that provides a summary of updates on status, work completed, work in progress, short-term goals and other relevant project information.

Required Skills:

• 5 years of work experience integrating internet applications within Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Cloud Dev Kit.
• 5 years of work experience with application development with Java technologies.
• 5 years of work experience with Node JS technologies.
• 5 years of work experience automating AWS services.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with other developers to ensure operability with existing infrastructure systems.
• Master of Science (MS) degree in a technical field of study, such as Computer Science, Engineering, or other Mathematics-related disciplines.
• Strong experience in AWS cloud infrastructure management, application development, deployment, and maintenance.
• Experience with application integration, production support, and troubleshooting.
• Experience supporting development teams and maintaining existing infrastructure systems.

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