Description

Are you interested in improving and shaping the transportation industry by researching and developing cooperative driving automation software, smart infrastructure technology, and collaborative simulation tools? Consider joining the Leidos team operating FHWA's Saxton Transportation Operations Laboratory (STOL), a USDOT research lab and smart garage focused on the improvement of transportation operations, safety, mobility, and environmental impacts.

In this role, you will work with:

• Connected Automated Vehicles (CAV) and related infrastructure.

• Cooperative Driving Automation (CDA) systems, including vehicle-to-infrastructure, vehicle-to-pedestrian, and vehicle-to-vehicle communication hardware and software.

• Advanced simulations of vehicles, pedestrians, and transportation infrastructure.

• Traffic optimization and intelligent transportation systems.

• Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment: Drive the program team toward automation and deployment best practices. Act as toolsmith for the team's development, integration and deployment environment, including installing, configuring, integrating and maintaining multiple tools for maximum team productivity and ease of use.

• GitHub Administrator: Serve as the primary manager of the GitHub organizations, where our open source and private repositories reside (https://github.com/usdot-fhwa-stol, https://github.com/usdot-jpo-ode, https://github.com/usdot-fhwa-OPS). Act as the first point of contact for third party contributors to our repositories, performing triage and routing for their issues and pull requests. Report on metrics of open-source repository activity.

• Jira Administrator: Managing workflow and ticketing process on Jira, including maintaining automated interactions among Jira, Confluence and the continuous integration server. Managing public and private documentation stores on Confluence and internal document management facilities.

• Configuration and Release Manager: Create, modify, own and enforce strict adherence to software build and release processes, using modern best practices, and act as the initiator of formal release builds. Provide configuration status accounting and version management.

• Education: Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with 2+ years of experience in software and systems development projects, or a Masters with less than 2 years of related experience.

• Minimum of 2 years of proven experience in DevOps best practices including CI/CD and infrastructure automation.

• Experience with Linux environment administration, configuration and deployment.

• Experience managing software continuous integration and deployment tool suites, such as GitHub Actions, CMake/CPack, Debian Package Repository, Maven, NPM.

• Experience creating, updating and deploying software using Docker and DockerHub.

• Experience managing software configuration in a Git environment.

• Experience with issue tracking and management software, such as JIRA, GitHub, etc.

• Experience with AWS user and EC2 instance administration.

• Enjoys helping others, is self-motivated, takes ownership, takes initiative, and possesses a desire to learn and grow, while self-teaching with minimal guidance.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

• Candidate will need good English oral and written communication skills, the ability to listen and accurately identify client needs and issues, must be proactive in actions and communications, and able to follow through on commitments and deliver quality products ahead of or on schedule.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance (which includes three years of immediate residency in the US).

• Experience in Agile methodology

• Experience orchestrating and building software in an open-source environment.

• Experience and proficiency with networking protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, BGP, OSPF) and network hardware (e.g., routers, switches, firewalls).

• Familiarity with scripting languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell) for automation tasks.

• Experience in multiple software programming languages.

• Strong knowledge of network security practices, tools, and methodologies.

• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex network and application issues.

• Test execution, setup and configuration, which may involve software installation, configuration manipulations at the application of operating system level, and occasional minor system administration.

• Knowledge of U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration's Operations Program