Lucid Technologies Inc

Job Title: IT - Systems Administrator III

Location: VA, Remote

Intermediate and REMOTE

Job Description:

Under general direction, responsible for effectively tracking, logging, categorizing, and maintaining changes made against the accepted baseline(s) standards. Develops, distributes, and tracks all change packages resulting from approved Configuration Control Board action.

Trains personnel by conducting workshops and seminars on the proper methodology to maintain a proactive CM program. 

Provides daily support and direction to staff as to change status requirements, deadlines, and problems.

Responsible for the effective development and implementation of programs to ensure that all information systems products and services meet minimum standards and end-user requirements. 

Administers the change control process for zero defects software development. Responsible for configuration management of requirements, design, and code. Evaluates and selects configuration management tools and standards. 

Prepares configuration management plans and procedures. 

Administers problem management process including monitoring and reporting on problem resolution. Ensures adequate product testing prior to implementation. 

Coordinates with users and systems development personnel on releases of software. 

Verifies the completeness and accuracy of release libraries before implementation and ensures that correct versions of programs are included in specified releases. Makes recommendations to superiors regarding the acquisition and/or implementation of software to increase information systems efficiency, configuration management activities including product identification, change control, status accounting, operation of the program support library, and development and monitoring of equipment/system acceptance plans. 

Operates and manages program support library. 

Monitors library structure and procedures to assure system integrity, including procedures for collection, release, production, test, and emergency  libraries and the movement/migration of components between libraries. Monitors end-item acceptance plans. 

Typically performs all functional duties independently.

Job Responsibilities:

• 3+ Years' Experience in DevOps Engineering, team management, and collaboration 

• 2+ years in DevOps using test automation and CI/CD tools, containers, cloud infrastructure, and other modern technologies, CI/CD pipeline set up from scratch as DevOps lead

• Experience with service-oriented architectures and microservices; deploying resilient, scalable, high-throughput systems.

• Experience in developing and maintaining CI/CD processes for enterprise SaaS and on-prem applications using tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, GitLabs etc.

• Knowledge of IT infrastructure security protocols

• Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible

• Advanced knowledge of programming languages such as Python and Java and writing code and scripts.

• Hands-on experience in building and administering VMs and Containers using tools such as Docker / Kubernetes.

• Familiarity with logging and monitoring technologies

• Ability to install and configure software, gather test-stage data, and perform de-bugging.

• Proficiency in documenting processes and monitoring performance metrics.

• Advanced knowledge of best practices related to data encryption and cybersecurity.

• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.

• Strong hardware/software troubleshooting skills

• Strong networking knowledge and experience is highly desired.

• Develop / Maintain Documentation on operational, configuration, or other procedures.

• 4-year college degree in Information Technology or Engineering strongly desired

• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Ability to oversee and mentor junior software developers, as well as report to management

• Must be able to work independently and self-directed, as well as, within a team.

Education/Experience:

• A minimum of five (5) years experience in software development, configuration/data management, and/or related field;

• A degree from an accredited College/University in Software Engineering,  Computer Science, or related discipline is preferred;

• Able to perform all functional duties independently;

• Experience training/mentoring less experienced personnel;

• Moderate experience in configuration management, specifically in the areas of configuration identification, configuration status accounting, change management (including change verification/testing) and version control of documentation and software code;

• Able to define/document configuration management standards and prepare configuration management plans and procedures;

• Able to train personnel about proper CM disciplines/procedures by conducting workshops and seminars;

• Moderate experience with more than one configuration management tool (e.g. Rational Jazz, Star Team, PVCS, Subversion) and with configuration management standards;

• Able to evaluate competing configuration management tools/standards and select the best for a given problem domain;

• Moderate experience with release management, including coordination with users and development personnel and verification of release content;

• Able to recommend acquisition and/or implementation of system software to increase system efficiency;

• Moderate experience with program support library operation/management, and development and monitoring of equipment/system acceptance plans;

• Excellent communication skills.