Black Canyon Consulting LLC ยท 2 months ago
QA Platform Engineer
Bethesda, Maryland
Full-time
Onsite
Entry, Mid, Senior LevelBlack Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a QA Platform Engineer (DevOps) to support their work for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine. The role involves developing and maintaining compliance pipelines, automating tests, and ensuring compliance with federal application security regulations while working in a technical and goal-oriented environment.
ConsultingInformation TechnologyProject Management
Responsibilities
Develop and continuously improve DevSecOps, DataOps, and Observability platforms
Develop and maintain common tools and libraries
Evaluate new technologies and practices
Help NCBI developers with adoption platforms, tools, architectural patterns and best practices
Ensure compliance with the Federal application security regulations and standards by providing automated solutions and compliance pipelines
Practice Agile development and continuous improvement
Build and maintain compliance pipelines with built-in quality gates
Continuously automatically gather metrics for application quality for the enterprise-wide portfolio of applications
Provide QA services on a project basis
Qualification
Required
Proven software development skills using modern computing languages such as Python, JavaScript, and Java
Experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD)
Experience with automating tests (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright)
Strong coding skills in at least one programming language
Adequate level of Linux command-line skills
B.S. in a STEM field (Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics) or equivalent industry experience in Systems Engineering
Preferred
Web technologies expertise
Experience with containerization, Kubernetes, GitOps
Familiarity with build tools and various web, RPC and other frameworks
Experience with design patterns in coding and architecture
Knowledge of OpenShift, Anthos, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Hashicorp Nomad
Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, EFK (ElasticSearch, fluentd, Kibana), TIGK (Telegraph, InfluxDB, Graphana, Kapacitor), DataDog, Sensu, Jaeger, Sentry, OpsGenie, PagerDuty
Knowledge of service mesh technologies such as Istio, Linkerd
Experience with messaging systems like Kafka, Apache Pulsar, RabbitMQ, Amazon Kinesis, Apache Flume, Apache Storm, Apache Spark Streaming, Google Cloud Pub/Sub
Familiarity with GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket, Teamcity, Artifactory, or equivalent products for management of Git source control, CI/CD pipelines and artifact lifecycle management
Experience with secret management tools such as Hashicorp Vault, CyberArk, Azure Key Vault, Google Cloud Secret Manager or equivalent
Benefits
Medical, dental and vision coverage
401k plan with employer contribution
Paid holidays
Vacation
Tuition reimbursement
Company
Black Canyon Consulting LLC
Black Canyon Consulting, LLC (BCC) is a privately held, Woman-Owned Small Business, whose team of professionals bring over 125 years of experience providing innovative, tactical, and strategic Program and IT Management Support Services.
Founded in 2017
51-200 employees
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Growth StageLeadership Team
Haley Esser
Chief Executive Officer
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