Junior DevOps Engineer

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When it comes to what you want in your career, if you can imagine it, you can do it at Parsons.  Imagine a career working with intelligent, diverse people sharing a common quest. Imagine a workplace where you can be yourself. Where you can thrive. Where you can find your next, right now. We’ve got what you’re looking for.

Job Description:

Parsons has emerged as a leader in the development of cutting-edge solutions for the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and other government agencies. Our tremendous success can be attributed to our people and our priorities. We hire the best; we make them a priority and we never lose focus on the mission. It’s why we’re here. We have built this cultural legacy by working closely with analysts and operators to understand their needs and delivering meaningful value through innovative, cost effective and intuitive software solutions.

Our Space Operations directorate is passionate about making America the undisputed leader in Space because we understand that ensuring our nation’s security for future generations depends on it. Parsons creates game changing space solutions by teaming highly respected subject matter experts with brilliant technologists. Are you a Full Stack Software Engineer looking to grow your skillset and work on a project that has real work impact. Do you want to be part of a team that is helping the government solve major national security challenges in the space domain? We need your help.

Our team is looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer that is in the early stages of their career and has basic experience in support of enterprise software development and delivery. This position supports delivering capabilities to the space community through the development and support of DevSecOps tooling, pipelines, and containerized deployments. In this position, you will be a member of a growing Agile team supporting the development of critical mission applications for the space community as a member of Parsons’ Space Operations directorate. You will work with software engineers and other DevOps engineers to help create, deploy and maintain space situational awareness solutions for DoD operators and analysts.

This position supports hybrid work with some time working at a client site or in the Parsons office and some time working from home.

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline with less than 3 years of technical experience; additional relevant experience may be accepted in place of a degree.

• Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology

• Familiarity with Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence)

• Ability to support and troubleshoot issues on common Operating Systems (e.g., MacOS, Windows, Linux)

• Familiarity with DevOps (CI/CD) pipeline concepts and tools (e.g., Gitlab, Nexus, Artifactory, Jenkins, SonarQube, Docker, Fortify)

• Must be comfortable working in a fast-paced, flexible environment, and take the initiative to learn new tools and concepts quickly

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills in both spoken and written English

• Must be a US citizen with ability and willingness to obtain a DoD Top Secret security clearance

Desired Skills

• Familiarity with GitOps tools (e.g., Flux and ArgoCD)

• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)

• Experience with one or more scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash, Go)

• Familiarity with building software written in multiple languages (Java, NodeJS, Python, Go).

• Familiarity with Kubernetes and Git

• Understanding of deploying and configuring software in AWS cloud environments

• Experience with Gitlab pipelines

• Security+ certification

Minimum Clearance Required to Start:

Not Applicable/None

This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.

Our Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our diverse, intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.

Salary Range: 

$61,200.00 - $107,100.00

The position may require a COVID vaccination or an approved accommodation/exemption for a disability/medical condition or religious belief as required by customer requirements and some cases federal, state, provincial or local mandates.

This position will be posted for a minimum of 3 days and will continue to be posted for an average of 30 days until a qualified applicant is selected or the position has been cancelled.

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the workplace. Diversity is ingrained in who we are, how we do business, and is one of our company’s core values. Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels for minority, female, disabled, protected veteran and LGBTQ+.

We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!