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At American Rheinmetall, we believe in satisfied customers and healthy, engaged employees. We listen to our customers and provide them with solutions – whether that’s high quality parts or cutting edge technology, our nation’s Warfighters and farmers alike depend on us to deliver. Being part of the Rheinmetall team offers a challenging and fulfilling career while being an important part of a mission larger than ourselves.

Our know-how is on almost every major combat vehicle in the Army, from the legendary Abrams Main Battle Tank to the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, and the XM30 we are designing to replace it. Our handiwork empowers and protects the members of our U.S. Armed Forces and helps to ensure their safe return home. With the same skill and precision that we make tracks for armored vehicles, we also make the tracks that move the largest tractors, combines, and grain carts across fields all over the United States, growing the food that feeds us all.

Over the past two years, American Rheinmetall has added more than 200 employees to number over 1,400 strong. We have won over $200 million in new business and expect to exceed $600 million in revenue this year. If you are interested in joining a fast-growing team for a meaningful career that directly supports our Warfighters and farmers, we encourage you to apply today!

Job Summary:

Looking for an experienced Systems Engineer with highly skilled and functional knowledge in DevOps / DevSecOps and Collaboration Platforms / Tools for establishing fully automated CI/CD Pipelines supporting Software Engineering and Collaboration Platforms, where engineering teams can manage Product Development and Release Management activities. Additionally, this role is required to manage, maintain, and support various technologies and tools used by cross-functional teams in an integrated digital engineering environment. This is a critical role that will work closely with the engineering and manufacturing teams, delivering systems level services that enable integration and automation of business processes.

Essential Functions:

+ Display and deliver expert level technical skills, hands-on experience, and knowledge implementing fully automated Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) Pipelines used by Software Engineering Teams, Collaboration Platform Tools, and Digital Engineering Technologies/Tools used by cross-functional Product Development engineering teams

+ Design, implement / deploy, integrate, and support Technologies and Tools used in DevOps / DevSecOps and Collaboration Platforms and evolve

+ Understand and implement systems level services (install, configure, integration, automation, and security) required to support integrated digital engineering environment technologies and tools

+ Responsible for managing overall systems architecture and implementation plan that deliver the roadmap with set prioritization and provided requirements

+ Must be able to understand and implement third-party packaged products / services / containers and integrate with the rest of the ecosystem

+ Monitor systems and services availability, performance and scalability to manage SLA/SLO/SLIs incorporating SRE principles

+ Maintain the technologies / tools at vendor supported level – license management, applying patches, upgrades and migrations to keep them current

+ Incorporate industry best practices and standards to mature platforms while enforcing regulatory and compliance mandates and ARV standards

+ Implement and manage security (Authentication, Authorization, and Data) requirements of these platforms leveraging standard tools / processes

+ Ability and experience with manual, scripting and automated patching and processes

+ Lead / contribute to establish standards and guidelines for managing and use of these platforms

+ Establish and manage “How-To” process/procedures (user guides) for ‘User Onboard and Use of the Platforms’ and ‘Platforms Administration’

+ Establish and deliver dashboards providing visibility and usage / KPI Metrics

+ Help assist in tools selection and recommendations on usage

+ Contribute to Center of Excellence / Special Interest Workgroups in these areas

+ Must be willing to learn new technologies, tools and processes and able to mentor / coach teams successfully

Supervisory Responsibility:

None

Minimum Qualifications:

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (as demonstrated through experience, training and/or testing)

+ Displayed strengths in establishing standards and guidelines and ability to coach / mentor user communities while incorporating best practices driving continuous improvements

+ Exceptional oral and written communication skills with strong collaboration and teamwork

+ Demonstrated ability to take initiative

+ Industry or community contributions are highly considered and valued

+ White papers / publication in the related field a plus

Education:

+ Bachelor of Science (STEM) – preferably in Computer Science or Engineering

+ DevOps / DevSecOps Certifications are highly valued and considered

+ Systems Engineering / Administration Certifications and/or Trainings are preferred

Experience:

+ 7+ years hands-on experience implementing (install, deploy, configure, integrate, operate, administer, security, monitor, mentor/coach users) CI/CD automation platforms leveraging industry standard DevOps / DevSecOps ecosystem Tools, Technologies and Processes/Practices that include but not limited to:

+ Gitlab, Gitlab Runner, Jenkins, Nexus, SonarQube, Twistlock, ELK, Code Coverage tools

+ Third-party and/or Open Source CI/CD Kubernetes Container Packages (example PlatformOne Big Bang)

+ Jira (Task/work/workflow management) and Confluence (collaboration)

+ 5+ Years of experience managing deployments in Windows, Linux including Xen and KVM, CENTOS, and Kubernetes Clusters (Rancher, OpenShift, Docker) on VMWare (or other virtualization) virtual and physical servers

+ 5+ Years strong experience using and managing variety of databases such as MS-SQL, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Cassandra

+ 5+ Years of experience in systems engineering / administration (install, deploy, configure, integrate, operate, administer, security, monitor, backup/restore, mentor/coach users) supporting digital engineering technologies/tools (similar to middleware products – ex: DoorsNG, Jazz, Cameo System Modeler, Teamwork Cloud, Teamcenter, Volta) and business processes automation / integration using APIs/OSLC interfaces across Open / ERP / distributed systems and platforms

+ 3+ Years of experience in employing SRE principles and continuous improvements providing reliable systems and services

+ 3+ Years of experience with logging and monitoring

+ 2+ Years of experience with implementing dashboards on DevOps / DevSecOps and Collaboration Platforms usage and KPI metrics for visibility

+ 2+ Years of Linux based intrusion/detection prevention, configuration and maintenance including anti-malware deployment/configuration

+ Exposure and experience with PlatformOne Big Bang DevSecOps Platform

+ Strong aptitude to stand-up (deploy, configure, operate) and maintain internal-locally-hosted Open Source PlatformOne Big Bang (full-suite or selective packages) environment and integrate with rest of the internal DevSecOps Platform tools

+ Ability to extend internal operated DevSecOps Platform integration with externally hosted PlatformOne Big Bang Platform

+ Technical knowledge and basic skillset of physical and wireless networking

+ Plus if has Linux or Security Certifications, knowledge and experience coding in C and Python, and any experience with NIST 800-171 family security

Background Prerequisites:

+ Must undergo and meet company standards for background check, employment verification, reference checks and controlled substance testing.

+ All employment at ARV is contingent upon the ability to obtain and maintain a government security clearance if the position requires it.

Preferred Qualifications:

+ Master of Science in Computer Science or Engineering

Working Conditions and Physical Demands:

With or without reasonable accommodations, requires the physical and mental capacity to perform effectively all essential functions. In addition to other demands, the demands of the job include:

+ Hazards, tasks, PPE, ergonomic concerns, travel requirements, workspace (close proximity to others)

+ Ability to lift up to 25 pounds occasionally

+ Ability to travel up to 25%