Systems Engineer III - DevOps & Application Sustainment

Overview The Systems Engineer III – DevOps & Application Sustainment supports the operation, maintenance, integration, and continual enhancement of Army biometric applications and supporting AWS GovCloud environments. The engineer focuses on DevOps automation, CI/CD, application/platform troubleshooting, releases, integration, testing, defect correction, and limited software enhancements required to sustain mission capabilities. Responsibilities Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting deployment and sustainment of biometric applications. Maintain and enhance Jenkins, Git/GitLab, automation pipelines, deployment processes, and associated engineering tools. Troubleshoot application, platform, interface, configuration, and production issues. Analyze logs, metrics, alerts, application behavior, and system dependencies to determine root cause. Develop scripts and automation using Python, Bash, PowerShell, JSON/YAML, or similar technologies. Perform limited application development and code changes necessary to correct defects, implement approved enhancements, maintain interfaces, and sustain system functionality. Implement approved application patches, upgrades, maintenance releases, and configuration changes. Develop and execute system/regression testing associated with releases, patches, infrastructure changes, and defect correction. Support COTS/GOTS application integration and interoperability. Support AWS platform administration and technical cybersecurity remediation as required. Maintain release documentation, test evidence, configuration records, and technical baseline artifacts. Participate in CCB/TRB activities, release planning, and technical reviews. Cross-train with cloud/platform and network engineers. Qualifications Required: Bachelor's Degree in a relevant engineering discipline Seven (7) years of professional experience in systems engineering AWS GovCloud experience. Experience with software integration or testing, including analyzing and implementing test plans and scripts. Understanding of ANSI/NIST ITL and DoW Electronic Biometric Transmission Specification (EBTS). Familiarity with biometric systems. Knowledge of system-of-systems engineering and integration directorate processes. Experience with DevOps practices and tools, including Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD). Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills. Secret security clearance. Preferred: Jenkins and CI/CD. Git/GitLab. Python, Bash, PowerShell or similar scripting. AWS/AWS GovCloud. Terraform/Ansible. Application troubleshooting. Linux and Windows. REST/API or application-interface troubleshooting. Regression/system testing. Experience making targeted application bug fixes and enhancements rather than primarily performing greenfield development. Grafana or comparable monitoring/metrics tools. Salary range: $118,000 - $133,000 The above salary…