Security Clearance required:

　　Able to obtain Public Trust

　　Do you want to make a difference?

　　Cognosante employees are passionate about improving people’s lives. With an innovative mindset and an unwavering commitment to those we serve, we partner with healthcare, civilian and defense agencies to deliver exceptional public services and programs. Our multi-faceted technology and customer experience (CX) solutions achieve program outcomes, solve critical challenges and create meaningful change. Whether we are helping Veterans access healthcare faster, ensuring that members of the military complete their missions safely, or helping people obtain health insurance, our work touches millions of people. Are you ready to make a difference?

　　Come Join Our Team

　　Cognosante is seeking a DevOps Engineer to support the IT program at a major national laboratory in New Mexico.

　　What is the position?

　　This position supports the Systems Mission Engineering Center which is an organization that develops distributed sensing systems. This project spans several departments. The organization provides server administration, architecture design implementation SW Integration and development, server support, systems integration, and network engineering.

　　What will I get to do?

　　Identify, setup, integrate, evaluate, and maintain tools to build and optimize the system workflow to create reproducible and predictable environments

　　- Advance configuration management and testing frameworks of our software and platform code

　　- Seek opportunities to automate processes as much as possible for continuous integration and continuous delivery, enabling better consistency and maintainability

　　- Analyze, troubleshoot, identify, and solve issues to support complex testbed and system infrastructures in a classified environment that are used by multiple software development, platform development, and testing teams

　　- Partner with architects, developers, technical leads, and integration test teams to understand system and project-level requirements, develop vision, design solutions, and deliver high-quality tested software applications while ensuring we meet customer expectations

　　What qualifications do I need?

　　Bachelor's Degree in Management Information Systems, Information Systems, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or relevant STEM field and 7 years of experience, OR MS Degree plus 3 years' relevant experience

　　Experience with QA testing

　　Scripting languages (e.g. Python and Bash)

　　Debug tools and techniques for analysis and data collection

　　Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) Pipeline

　　Configuration Management (GitLab preferred)

　　Software engineering and testing practices (unit and integration testing) for applications written in modern programming languages (e.g. C++, Python, Java)

　　Unix/Linux operating environments

　　Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a collaborative and interdisciplinary team environment, including sound technical communication

　　Analytical and technical problem-solving skills leading to experience with problem identification, root cause analysis, and implementing solutions

　　Ability to obtain and maintain an active US DOE Q-level security clearance

　　What additional characteristics will help me thrive?

　　Masters Degree

　　Certified in any of the following: CAST, ISTQB INCOSE, Security+ and/or RHEL

　　Creating and running tests to assess compliance with customer requirements

　　Automated verification and validation techniques and technologies

　　Build, automation, orchestration, virtualization, continuous integration, and continuous delivery (example of using tools such as Jenkins, Git, Ansible, Docker, vSphere and CMake)

　　Containerization (Docker preferred)

　　Large-scale (1M+ lines of code) systems

　　Practicing Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum)

　　Test Driven Development (TDD)

　　Ability to understand, assess and implement processes to meet cyber requirements for computer systems, software, and networks

　　Participating with requirements decomposition and providing project level effort estimations

　　Ability to develop and manage integrated solution roadmaps

　　Real-time processing of sensor data

　　Working on one or more US Government programs

　　Mentoring others

　　Active DOE Q-level clearance or equivalent

　　What We Offer  

　　Our mission is to provide comprehensive and competitive pay, benefits, services, and programs to eligible employees and their dependents that: 

　　Ensure optimal health and productivity of our employees  

　　Support employee retention and attraction 

　　Provide work/life balance to ensure our employees succeed inside and outside of the office 

　　Compensation

　　$93,942.70 - $150,308.31

　　The pay range for this job is determined by various factors, including but not necessarily limited to location, responsibilities of the job, and alignment with market data. When determining a salary for this role, the following factors may be taken into consideration - contract-specific affordability, education, knowledge, skills, competencies and experience. The estimate displayed represents the salary range for this position and is just one component of Cognosante’s total compensation package for employees. It is not necessarily reflective of actual compensation that may be earned, nor a promise of any specific pay for any specific employee.

　　Cognosante will not provide sponsorship for employment-based immigration benefits for this position.

　　What We Promise  

　　Cognosante employees are inspired by our bold mission to improve lives. To achieve this mission, we put our people first. No matter where they're located around the nation, our innovative workplaces enable individuals to apply their skills and experience to work toward a greater good.

　　We foster a winning culture of solution creators built on innovation, collaboration, flexibility, and work-life balance. And we invest in the next generation of diverse talent to foster an inclusive, progressive, adaptable workplace that prioritizes advancement for all. As an affirmative action employer, we are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.  

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　　We will never send communications through any other domain, including @cognosantecareers.com, @gmail.com or @yahoo.com). We will never request payment from you, nor will we send payment to you, prior to your start date. If you have been asked to send or receive any payment, or if you have any doubt about whether you have been contacted by a Cognosante employee, please contact us at [email protected]

　　At Cognosante, we innovate with purpose. Each day, we create meaningful change by delivering mission-driven solutions for healthcare, civilian, and defense government agencies. When you work at Cognosante, you’ll apply your talents and grow your career with an organization that believes in the missions of our customers – and the right every employee has to an inclusive, flexible, and collaborative workplace. Work with us, and you’ll be challenged and supported—and have the platform to elevate your career to wherever your professional aspirations lead.​

　　Get to know Cognosante employees

　　We’re driven by our customers’ missions, and measure success by how we improve lives.

　　We believe innovative solutions start with an innovative culture.

　　We believe customer understanding is the key to creating innovative solutions.

　　We know we are stronger together, and we value the diversity of our people.

　　We believe growth should be a core job benefit.

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