- Requisition ID: 5534
- Standard Title:
- Required Security Clearance: Top Secret/SCI
- Location: Bethesda, MD
- Work Type: On-Site
- Shift: First
- Referral Eligibility: Eligible
- U.S. Citizenship Required? Yes
- Sign-On Bonus:
Position SummaryTS/SCI-cleared DevOps Software Engineer to join a high-energy team building and deploying a cutting-edge technology stack in support of the DIA-NDOC (National Digital Exploitation OSINT Center) DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP). This role is part of a 10-year program supporting the DOMEX Data Discovery Platform (D3P) Modernization effort, where you'll contribute to mission-critical capabilities alongside a collaborative, innovative, and growth-oriented team. While the majority of work is performed on-site at the customer location in Bethesda, MD, we offer a flexible schedule and occasional opportunities for remote work.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities- Design, maintain, secure, and improve automated software build, test, artifact, and deployment pipelines to enable product teams to deliver software reliably through standardized, repeatable, and observable DevSecOps workflows.
- Work with a multidisciplinary group of developers, integrators, and system administrators to:
- Design, develop, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines for application build, test, security scanning, packaging, promotion, deployment, and release activities.
- Implement standardized pipeline templates, reusable automation, and self-service delivery capabilities for product development teams.
- Integrate automated unit testing, code-quality analysis, dependency scanning, container-image scanning, infrastructure/configuration validation, and other DevSecOps controls into CI/CD workflows.
- Use Helm to configure Kubernetes deployments for new features and evolving requirements.
- Manage and support source-control integration, branching strategies, build triggers, artifact repositories, container registries, versioning, and release-promotion processes.
- Support GitOps, infrastructure-as-code, configuration-as-code, and automated environment provisioning practices.
- Troubleshoot failed builds, pipeline errors, deployment failures, artifact issues, configuration drift, and CI/CD tool integration problems.
- Monitor CI/CD pipeline health, performance, reliability, throughput, and failure trends; identify and implement improvements.
- Provide support to the Platform Team for platform-related activities, such as deployment troubleshooting, Kubernetes configuration support, Elastic integration, observability, and automation.
- Participate in Agile release planning, scrums, design sessions, bug triage, and related team activities.
Required Qualifications- You're enthusiastic, collaborative, and comfortable working with teammates across a range of technical backgrounds.
- Experience meeting an applicable education and experience pathway in the equivalency section.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience designing, developing, or maintaining CI/CD pipelines for production software systems using platforms, such as GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or equivalent.
- Experience with source control and collaborative development workflows using Git, including branching, merge requests/pull requests, tagging, release branches, and code review processes.
- Experience building and managing containerized applications using Docker or comparable container technologies.
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes deployment concepts, including manifests, secrets, namespaces, and Helm, or comparable tooling.
- Experience with artifact repositories and container registries, such as Nexus, Artifactory, Harbor, GitLab Registry, or equivalent.
- Experience integrating automated testing, static code analysis, dependency scanning, software composition analysis, container-image scanning, or security gates into delivery pipelines.
- Experience developing automation using scripting or programming languages such as Bash, Python, PowerShell, Go, or equivalent.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, or deployment templating tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kustomize, or equivalent.
- Ability to troubleshoot across application build, testing, packaging, containerization, deployment, networking, configuration, and environment layers.
Preferred Qualifications- Knowledge of Agile methodologies.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes administration and operations.
- Troubleshooting pod failures, networking issues, image pulls, scheduling constraints, and application connectivity.
- Experience supporting or administering at least one shared data or application platform service, such as Elastic, Redis, message queues, API gateways, or similar distributed services.
- Familiarity with infrastructure and platform automation tools, such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Bash, Python, or equivalent.
- Working knowledge of platform security practices.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools and practices.
- Ability to create and maintain clear technical documentation.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills.
- Development experience (Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, Java, etc.).
Required Education and Experience Equivalency- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Sciences, Systems Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years of relevant experience.
- Master's degree with 6+ years with a Master's.
Required Security Clearance- Active Top Secret/SCI
- Must obtain a CI polygraph after start; Top Secret/SCI required to start.
- U.S. citizenship is required
Pay & Benefit HighlightsCompensation- Competitive fixed salary or hourly pay (based on experience, skills, location, and internal equity).
- Employee referral bonuses up to $10,000 per hired referral.
- Additional bonus opportunities for exceptional performance and contributions to business development and company growth (role-dependent).
Health- 100% company-paid medical premiums for employees and eligible dependents.
- Choose from multiple plan options with CareFirst, Kaiser, and UnitedHealthcare, including PPO, POS, HMO, and HSA-compatible plans.
- 100% company-paid dental premiums for employees and eligible dependents.
- 100% company-paid vision premiums for employees and eligible dependents.
Income Protection- 100% company-paid premiums for short-term disability.
- 100% company-paid premiums for long-term disability.
- 100% company-paid premiums for accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D).
- 100% company-paid premiums for life insurance up to $200,000.
Retirement- 401(k) with immediate vesting: 4% company match plus a 4% non-elective company contribution (8% total).
- 401(k) pre-tax and Roth options.
Leave- Up to 20 days of flexible paid time off (PTO).
- 11 paid floating holidays.
Work-Life Balance- Flexible work schedules, including flex time and compressed work periods (contract and project-dependent).
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