Senior DevOps Engineer

KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

KBR (formerly LinQuest) is the prime contractor on the MSEIT contract. You will join a systems engineering team defining the next generation of space communication systems supporting US Space Force (USSF) satellite communications. You will support Systems Engineering & Integration (SE&I) activities in a multidisciplinary and collaborative environment. You will interface and collaborate with SE&I team members, contractors, government civilians and members of the USSF. You will lead and support several working groups responsible for leading technical discussion, resolve and identify risk, requirement gaps, developing briefings, writing, and tracking action items, and authoring meeting minutes.

The MILSATCOM Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test (MSEIT) effort provides leading edge Systems Engineering & Integration (SE&I) for the US Space Force’s Space Systems Center (SSC). We support the Space Force’s acquisition of state-of-the-art satellite communications systems, providing global secure, survivable, and protected communications for our nation’s warfighters. We seek technical individuals who will thrive in a highly collaborative work environment of small teams, using the most modern tools and methodologies to tackle the challenges of integrating complex space and ground communications systems.

• →Lead release management and deployment of microservices in a Kubernetes environment (AWS EKS, Azure AKS).
• →Design and implement vulnerability management, security monitoring, compliance controls, and incident response automation.
• →Work with developers to implement secure coding practices and application security testing.
• →Deploy DevOps practices for automating the software engineering practices across multiple projects.
• →Ensure we have solid, foundational processes in place. The design decisions you will make in this position will have a direct and lasting impact on the success of the entire software team and organization.
• →The DevOps Engineer will work directly with internal and external stakeholders to understand evolving requirements and identify key technologies and architecture design patterns used by the team.
• →Stand up agile development teams and will oversee the instantiation of DevOps pipelines in both on-prem and cloud environments.

• Location: On-site
• Travel Requirements: Minimal
• Working Hours: Standard

• Security Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance is required for this position
• Experience and Education: Bachelor’s degree in engineering or computer science, or related technical degree
• 5+ years of DevOps software development and infrastructure design.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Ability to design, implement, and manage secure cloud infrastructure solutions (AWS, Azure).
• Proficiency in implementing, maintaining, and managing CI/CD pipelines with security scanning tools and best practices, including container image scanning and dependency vulnerability management.
• Understanding of Zero Trust and secure software supply-chain principles.
• Experience administering and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters in product environments.
• Experience deploying applications using Helm and ArgoCD.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code solutions including Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, and similar.
• Experience implementing observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK Stack, Open Telemetry, or similar platforms.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Strong passion for conducting research, tackling complex problems, and continuously learning and adopting new technologies.
• Organization capability with ability to handle competing priorities.
• Strong interpersonal skills, communication (oral and written), and presentation skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office products (Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

• Active Secret or higher clearance
• Master’s degree in engineering or computer science, or related technical degree
• Experience with CI/CD on classified software development networks.
• Active cybersecurity certification such as CompTIA Security+, CySA+, CASP+, CISSP, Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS), or comparable credential.
• INCOSE certification, such as CSEP or ESEP

Basic Compensation:  $126,900 to $158,600 in El Segundo, CA

The offered rate will be based on the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities and/or experience and in consideration of internal parity.

Ready to Make a Difference? If you’re excited about making a significant impact in the field of space defense and working on projects that matter, we encourage you to apply and join our team.

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