Associate DevOps Engineer

KBR•Beavercreek Township, OH

1d•Onsite

About The Position

KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to customers in the intelligence and national security communities. This position offers the opportunity to make a profound impact on national security by contributing to the design and optimization of defense systems and shaping the future of space defense. KBR is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT, and cybersecurity solutions, fostering a collaborative, innovative, supportive, and intellectually stimulating workplace. The company is seeking a motivated Associate DevOps Engineer to join its infrastructure team. In this role, the engineer will be responsible for supporting the automation, maintenance, and optimization of CI/CD pipelines and build management systems. The role involves close collaboration with development teams to ensure high availability and reliable delivery of microservices-based applications within a secure, regulated environment.

Requirements

Ability to obtain or maintain a DoD security clearance
Hands-on experience with Jenkins (Pipelines, Shared Libraries)
Experience with Atlassian tools
Foundational working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes (pods, deployments, services)
Functional working knowledge of Helm Charting
Proficiency in Bash scripting
Basic familiarity with Java application environments and java development
Strong command of Linux/Unix systems and the command line
Fundamental understanding of the basic security concepts including SCA, SBOMs and vulnerability scans etc.
Automated certificate management concepts, ssh key management etc.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with Department of Defense projects, including security requirements such as STIGs and NIST 800-53
Understanding of how microservices communicate and operate within containerized clusters
Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams
Experience documenting technical processes using Confluence
Experience with MongoDB
Experience with log aggregation tools such as ELK Stack or Prometheus/Grafana

Responsibilities

Maintain and enhance automated build and deployment pipelines using Jenkins, including Jenkins Pipelines and Shared Libraries.
Partner with development teams to improve build reliability, deployment automation, and release consistency.
Manage and support build configurations and dependencies within the Atlassian ecosystem (Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence).
Contribute to streamlining development workflows and improving traceability across the software development lifecycle.
Support containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes across development, staging, and production environments including Helm based deployments.
Assist with deployments, scaling activities, and troubleshooting containerized services.
Help manage and automate SSL/TLS certificate and SSH key lifecycles to ensure secure communication and compliance.
Follow established security standards and participate in automation efforts that reduce manual risk.
Monitor system health and application performance using the ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) or similar observability tools.
Assist in log analysis and troubleshooting to support system stability and incident response.
Perform routine Linux server administration, troubleshooting, and basic performance tuning.
Support infrastructure stability in collaboration with senior engineers.
Write and maintain Bash scripts to automate routine operational tasks.
Support deployment and runtime needs of Java-based microservices.