Software Test and Deployment Manager

Job Description

Ready for What's Next? At Kratos, we encourage an entrepreneurial spirit balanced with discipline. We work hard, and take care of our customers, employees, and families. Recognized as thought leaders in our industry, we are motivated by creating and delivering innovative solutions to our nation and global customers. You will be instrumental in deploying a team that turns our customer complex projects into success.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Manage a small team of deployment engineers, provide professional development
• Develop and maintain a software Dev/Test environment for pre-release testing, this includes collecting requirements, design, material procurement and build-out within an Agile CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery/Deployment) software environment.
• Lead SAFe Program Increment planning in support of business goals, define and schedule team tasks, make resource estimates, track and report progress and issues to senior management
• Lead interactions with software development and operations team to ensure software designs leverage common architectures and are testable, supportable, recoverable and scalable and satisfy customer service level agreements.
• Oversee team that will test, validate, deploy and maintain software services and tools in a production environment.
• Generate and manage document artifacts from test and deployment activities, analyze and communicate results, track issues to closure.
• Coordinate and schedule change windows, and support the resulting upgrades, fixes, and software deployment activities. Minimize impact to production environment.
• Oversee team that responds to unplanned service outages. Provide SME guidance. Minimize impact to production environment.
• Lead root cause analysis and fixes/work arounds to systemic problems that impact production operations, document and communicate findings.
• Develop and maintain procedures and training that enable the team to operate more efficiently and minimize impact to customer services.

Experience and Skills

• 2 + years experience working with DevOps, and Agile CI/CD methodologies
• 2 + year experience troubleshooting complex distributed environments and taking corrective actions to ensure availability
• 2 + years experience developing and/or deploying software, microservices, APIs, RESTful web services in a Docker environment.
• 2 + years experience with Cloud Technologies, such as: AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform
• Strong management skills, demonstrating the ability to plan and schedule work and communicate progress and status to stakeholders.
• ship required.

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Domain experience with satellite communications technologies in an operational environment
• Certification in DevOps, Agile CI/CD methodologies, SAFe, ITIL
• Experience and/or certification in CyberSecurity disciplines
• Experience scripting, using languages such as Bash, PowerShell, Python or equivalent
• Experience with languages, such as: SQL, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C#
• Experience with database organization and administration.
• Experience in the development and management of Service oriented solutions
• Experience using Atlassian DevOps tools (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc)
• Current DoD Secret clearance

Hybrid-Office Remote Work Environment

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The grade-based pay range for this job is listed below. Individual salaries within that range are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, and skills.

This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

Competitive salary based on experience and education

Salary Range: $118,000 - $145,000 DOE

Kratos is valued for our ability to design and deliver leading edge, resilient solutions for aerospace communication, control, awareness and mission success across a continuum of offerings-from commercial to tailored custom solutions and integrated programs. Customers trust us to stay relevant and know we are in it for the long-haul. We bring both the capability and confidence that our customers value and depend on. And, we always deliver.

Job Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance Coverage
• Life/ADD & Short/Long Term Disability Insurance
• 401(k) Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Paid Time-Off (PTO)
• Holidays
• Education Reimbursement