DevOps Engineer

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. QUALIFICATIONS: - 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. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: - 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. PAY RANGE: 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.