DevOps Engineer
At a glance
Mid-level DevOps & Release role at Tetrad Digital Integrity. Washington · full-time · $180,000–$190,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Build automated CI/CD workflows with Jenkins, Artifactory, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible and Bitbucket
- Maintain Kafka and Elastic clusters, handling setup, configuration, testing, troubleshooting and upgrades
- Connect applications to network data in an Elastic stack running in AWS, while applying DoD STIG security requirements
- Create dashboards and monitoring for application health, performance, security, infrastructure use and cloud costs
- Automate tests, certificate management and incident monitoring, and resolve infrastructure issues across production environments
What you bring
- An active DoD TS/SCI clearance and the ability to pass additional customer suitability checks
- Security+ certification or an equivalent or higher credential
- A relevant technical degree, with eight to twelve years of experience, or a master's degree with six to ten years
- Experience developing software with Agile teams on Linux and using Git or Bitbucket for version control
Who this fits
This role suits an experienced engineer who can work independently, manage competing tasks and collaborate across a geographically distributed team. Daily onsite work in the Washington, DC area is required. Employment is limited to U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents.
From the employer
TDI is seeking a DevOps Engineer to support a brand-new Agile development team at the forefront of federal IT modernization, delivering real digital transformation where it matters most. This is a rare ground-floor opportunity to architect, build, and integrate cutting-edge infrastructure solutions in support of some of our nation's most sensitive and critical missions.
This is a fully onsite opportunity requiring a daily commute to the Washington, DC area. An active TS/SCI security clearance is required.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develop automated CI/CD build/deployment pipelines using Jenkins (CloudBees), Artifactory, Kubernetes (OpenShift), Docker, Ansible and Bitbucket.
- Assist with the deployment, configuration, testing, troubleshooting, maintenance, updates/upgrades of Kafka and Elastic clusters and environments.
- Configure applications to integrate network data into an Elastic (ELK) stack hosted in an AWS cloud environment.
- Configure applications in accordance to meet DoD security standards, including DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs).
- Develop, and maintain centralized dashboards and observability solutions to monitor application health, performance, availability, security posture, infrastructure utilization, and cloud spend across environments.
- Implement proactive monitoring, alerting, and automation using metrics, logs, traces to improve incident detection, operational visibility, root cause analysis, and system reliability.
- Implement cloud and infrastructure cost optimizations through resource utilization analysis, rightsizing, idle resource identification, storage and compute optimization, and FinOps best practices.
- Manage enterprise certificate lifecycle operations, including certificate provisioning, renewal, rotation, expiration monitoring, and automation to ensure secure and uninterrupted service delivery.
- Collaborate with DevOps, Security, Cloud, and Application Engineering teams to integrate security controls, compliance monitoring, automation, and operational standards into CI/CD pipelines and production environments.
- Work with an Agile team, attend daily scrums and demonstrate working software while collaborating with a geographically distributed (remote) team.
- Develop automated tests using Ansible, Selenium, JMeter, JUnit and/or other applicable tools.
- Troubleshoot and resolve installation, infrastructure and system issues.
- Proactively and independently identify, report, monitor and mitigate technical risks.
- Active DoD TS/SCI security clearance. Ability to pass additional customer suitability screening(s) prior to start.
- Current Security+ or equivalent/higher
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical discipline, plus 8 – 12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6 – 10 years of prior relevant experience.
- Experience developing software in an Agile environment, including the ability to quickly learn new technologies on a rapidly growing project.
- Ability to multi-task, self-assign work, and work in a geographically distributed team in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Experience with distributed version control software such as Git and Bitbucket.
- Experience developing software on a Linux platform.
- Knowledge of and ability to apply principles, theories, and concepts of Software Engineering.
- Strong communication skills that enable proactive and effective collaboration with a virtual team, including the ability to clearly articulate status and present to both customers and program leadership.
- Full software lifecycle experience (design, development, test, deployment), including deployment to a production environment.
- Experience developing software in an Agile environment, including the ability to quickly learn new technologies on a rapidly growing project.
- Software development experience with Python and Java and SQL, including integration experience with JSON/REST web services, as well as the parsing, generation and validation of JSON. Working knowledge of JavaScript.
- Experience designing, developing and deploying software in a cloud environment (AWS is a plus).
- Experience designing, building and deploying DevOps pipelines with Bitbucket, Git, Jenkins, Artifactory and Ansible (or equivalent tools).
- Experience designing and implementing application deployment pipelines and developing software in a containerized environment with Kubernetes and Docker.
The anticipated salary range for this position is $180,000 - $190,000. This range is a good-faith estimate and not a guarantee of compensation. Final compensation will be based on factors including experience, education, skills, geographic location, internal equity, market data and applicable contract requirements, and may fall outside the posted range.
TDI does business with the federal government, which restricts employment to individuals who are either US citizens or lawful permanent residents of the United States.
“TDI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made based on individual qualifications, merit, and business needs. We do not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, in accordance with applicable federal laws.”