Title: DevOps Engineer

FLSA: Exempt

Based in: St. Petersburg, FL

Work Type:

• Commutable to St Pete office: Hybrid (approx 3 days a week on-site -if within 1 hour commute of St Pete FL )
• Not Commutable to St Pete Office: For candidates who are located further away from St Pete, you would be remote but from time to time you may need to visit the St Pete office (when it makes sense).
  
  

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

Pole Star Defense is a leading provider of maritime domain awareness, maritime security, and fisheries monitoring systems to the government sector. Since 1998, we have pushed the limits of innovation, mitigating growing threats to ships, supply chains, cargo, territorial waters and, most importantly, safety of lives at sea and beyond. Today, we continue to develop and implement pioneering intelligence technologies to protect customer vessels, people, maritime domain, and reputation.

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

Pole Star Defense is looking for a DevOps Engineer who is passionate about building robust modern applications based on Java eco-system of frameworks and tools, event-driven microservice architecture, and best industry practices. You will be working in a growing team on an exciting green-field project that owns end-to-end delivery of the entire solution. The perfect candidate will work within an Agile environment and actively participate in story planning & daily standups. You will play a key role in collaborative project teams and assist with designing and developing mission-critical, enterprise-scale business systems.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintain the department’s common application development platform across several deployments both within the company boundary and in customer networks.
• Design, code, and test Infrastructure as Code (IAC) modifications for assigned applications to address changes or fixes as necessary for problem resolution
• Review, analyze, and modify existing infrastructure services, including coding, testing, debugging, and installing within a large-scale ecosystem
• Independently prepare estimates of effort to develop and execute approved application changes in primary applications, prioritize work assignments, and facilitate peer review of work products
• Analyze user requirements to define business objectives
• Define application objectives and functionality and ensure application designs conform with business goals
• Maintain shared responsibility for documentation updates to configuration records and the related configuration management tool to track application changes
• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Support continuous improvement of all solutions, investigating alternatives and technologies, and presenting for architectural review

Requirements

• 5+ years of direct design and programming experience with Java/Spring/REST/Microservices or infrastructure operations experience related to running those services at scale
• Sound knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IAC) automation using Terraform, Helm, and Kubernetes
• Experience with AWS cloud
• Experience with messaging and event streaming systems and frameworks (such as JMS, Kafka, etc.)
• Basic Understanding of the concepts of RESTful web services
• Understanding basic design principles behind a scalable application
• Skilled at creating database schemas that characterize and support business processes
• Basic knowledge of JVM (Java Virtual Machine), its benefits, drawbacks, and workarounds
• Practical day to day working knowledge of code versioning tools and build frameworks, such as Git and Maven
• Experience with continuous integration tools such as FluxCD
• Experience working in a Public Sector customer designed IL2/5 environment such as on NIPR, SIPR, or JWICS

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or relevant work experience
• AWS Certified Developer - Associate or related certifications
• CompTIA Security+ required

DESIRED: (Not mandatory)

• Experience working with U.S. Public Sector customers - DHS or DOD
• DoD Security Clearance

TRAVEL REQUIRED:

• Ability for up to 10% travel both domestic and international.

Benefits

Pole Star Defense offers benefits that are designed to lead an evolving marketplace and encourage a healthy balance between work and life. Highlights of those benefits are listed below:

• Salary: $120,000 - $145,000 per year
• Medical, Vision, Dental, Disability insurance for employees and dependents (100% covered by company)
• Life insurance, company funded to 2x salary
• 20 days annual leave (can buy or sell more days)
• Up to a 10% Annual bonus available
• Up to a 5% 401K matching
• Gym membership subsidy
• Volunteer Day PTO
• Refer-a-friend recruitment bonus
• Unlimited learning & development via our learning platform.

WORK SCHEDULE NOTE: While this position is scheduled for a traditional Monday – Friday work week, our systems run 24/7/365 and as such, you may be expected to perform out of hours, on-call support on an as needed basis. This may include weekends and/or holidays and is worked on a rotation system with other team members. Additional compensation may be available for working on-call, standby or holiday hours.

This is a Public Trust position and requires completion of a State and Federal Criminal History Report (i.e., background check) and may require a Department of Defense security clearance. Current and future employment will be contingent upon satisfactory completion of both the FBI Summary History Report and if designated, a DoD security clearance.

This position requires use of or access to information subject to the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”) or the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (“ITAR”). Accordingly, all applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of these regulations. Under ITAR, a U.S. person is defined as a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident, or a person who is a protected individual under the immigration and Naturalization Act (8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3))

Pole Star Defense is a U.S. Government contractor and is an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability and veterans.

*This job description may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the job described, and may be amended at the sole discretion of the employer*