DevOps Automation Engineer #1868524

Network Designs, Inc. is a federal contractor delivering information technology and network solutions for government customers. The company is seeking a DevOps/CI-CD Engineer to design, build, operate, and optimize secure automation, infrastructure, and delivery pipelines for FAA applications, data services, cloud platforms, and machine-learning solutions across cloud and hybrid environments.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, operate, and optimize continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines for enterprise applications, infrastructure, data services, and machine-learning workloads
• Automate builds, tests, security scans, artifact management, deployments, environment promotion, rollback, and release controls
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code and configuration automation using approved enterprise toolchains
• Support GitOps practices and reproducible infrastructure across development, test, stage, and production environments
• Manage containerized deployment patterns and orchestration for applications and machine-learning models
• Embed security, quality, compliance, monitoring, and logging controls throughout the delivery lifecycle
• Troubleshoot pipeline, deployment, infrastructure, and environment failures and lead root-cause analysis and corrective action
• Document pipelines, toolchains, operating procedures, architecture, release processes, metrics, and technical decisions
• Collaborate with software, platform, cloud, data, security, QA, and machine-learning teams to improve delivery reliability and operational performance

Requirements:

• U.S. Citizenship is required
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
• This position is remote, candidate must reside in one of the following states: AL, AZ, DC, FL, GA, ID, MD, MS, NJ, NC, OK, OH, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WV
• Occasional travel may be required. Candidates should be able to attend meetings at FAA facilities and other locations throughout the Continental United States (CONUS) as required
• Must be available during Eastern Time (ET) business hours to support program needs and FAA coordination
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology, or a related field
• Minimum 4 years of DevOps experience in an enterprise environment
• Hands-on experience with GitLab, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, and Docker
• Knowledge of DevOps methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, automation, Infrastructure as Code, and version control using Git
• Experience with cloud services such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud and their DevOps capabilities
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for deploying and managing applications or machine-learning models
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and the Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana stack
• Proficiency in a programming or scripting language such as Python, Java, R, or Bash
• Ability to obtain and maintain FAA Contractor Personnel Suitability
• Strong written, verbal, analytical, organizational, troubleshooting, and cross-functional collaboration skills
• FAA or other federal experience and experience working in regulated enterprise environments
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing machine-learning models and familiarity with TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikit-learn
• Relevant cloud certification, such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer
• Relevant DevOps certification, such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator or Docker Certified Associate
• Familiarity with FAA security, governance, documentation, Agile, and continuous-delivery standards