DevOps Engineer Clearance Required

About Level Up 

Level Up, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AVIAN, represents a fusion of innovation, reliability, and top-tier cyber security and IT solutions. As a Virginia-based small business with over 150 years of collective experience, we pride ourselves on providing industry-leading expertise, big data analytics, and all-source research and analysis. Our technical capabilities directly bolster our customers' objectives, from mission centers to forward-deployed operations. 

In 2021, we joined forces with AVIAN, an employee-owned business and one of America’s fastest-growing private companies. With a shared commitment to resourcefulness, responsiveness, and reachability, we continue to uphold our trademark dependability and innovation, delivering exceptional services to our 80 government and commercial clients across 13 states. 

Beyond our technical and consulting prowess, we at Level Up believe in creating a positive impact within our communities. Through our charitable giving and volunteer programs, we support causes close to our hearts and inspire meaningful change. This commitment to service and community enhancement is what we call "The Level Up Way". 

Together, Level Up and AVIAN offer comprehensive solutions, blending technology and community engagement to create an exceptional partnership for our employees, customers, and community. 

• Provide bug fixes, enhancements, and Graphical User Interface (GUI) improvements to applications to meet operational requirements.
• Develop and modify application source code, in response to new requirements and requests for change.
• Develop and deploy software, including in cloud environments.
• Integrate externally developed code into core libraries.
• Install and configure application software.
• Evaluate third party vendors and software partners
• Design and develop Representational State Transfer (REST) Application Program Interfaces (APIs)
• Maintain design of software libraries, including the definition of module APIs, code organization, and compliance in coding standards. This work will emphasize modularity of the libraries, re-use of common code, clean interfaces between the subsystems and integrity of design.
• Work with the configuration manager to ensure the integration of externally developed software into core software libraries
• Develop, as assigned, a wide range of software to run on the Sponsor’s networks. The software libraries include but are not limited to audio/video, image processing algorithms, OS and file systems, and device drivers.
• Assisting the Sponsor in developing specific standards, methods, or procedures to determine product quality release or release readiness
• Conduct testing at all levels of the software development life cycle, to include regression testing, and adhere to strict testing procedures
• Provide metrics on software availability and reliability during monthly status review.

• Minimum 10 years of experience
• Demonstrated experience in Java, Java Builder.
• Demonstrated experience with full lifecycle agile software development projects
• Demonstrated experience with software issue tracking tools such as JIRA
• Ability to manage an application that is part of AWS cloud by:
  • Updating Certs
  • Performing Security Scans
  • Patching Workstations
  • Configuring and Deploying virtual workstations

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in the field of computer science, information systems, engineering, mathematics, or other related scientific or technical discipline. If the candidate does not have a bachelor’s degree, they must have (5) additional years of experience.

Clearance Required