CI/CD Engineer (Journeyman)

DecisionPoint | Cortek•Chicago, IL

1d•Remote

About The Position

DecisionPoint seeks two CI/CD Engineers to build, operate, secure, and continuously improve software-delivery pipelines for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. The roles maintain code repositories, repeatable builds, automated tests, deployment tooling, infrastructure-as-code assets, promotion controls, and automated rollback capabilities. The engineers collaborate with software developers, testers, architects, cybersecurity personnel, cloud and infrastructure engineers, configuration-management staff, operations teams, and Government stakeholders to ensure source code, infrastructure, pipeline scripts, application packages, and releases are versioned, reproducible, traceable, and deployable through controlled processes. The positions are remote, with Chicago-area candidates preferred. Applicants acknowledge and consent to their resumes being included in an active competitive government contract bid.

Requirements

Active Secret clearance or higher.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, software engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent permitted by the applicable labor category.
At least six years of relevant professional experience.
Experience designing, building, maintaining, or troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines.
Experience developing or maintaining infrastructure-as-code.
Experience implementing or supporting automated software deployments.
Experience diagnosing and resolving build, test, pipeline, artifact, or deployment failures.
Experience working with source-code repositories and version-control practices.
Experience supporting repeatable builds and automated testing within delivery pipelines.
Ability to develop and maintain version-controlled pipeline scripts, infrastructure definitions, and deployment configurations.
Ability to support controlled deployment promotion, approval gates, release traceability, and rollback automation.
Ability to prepare and maintain build, installation, deployment, and recovery procedures.
Ability to apply secure practices to pipeline credentials, secrets, artifacts, service accounts, and deployment tooling.
Ability to collaborate effectively with developers, testers, architects, cybersecurity personnel, infrastructure engineers, operations teams, and Government stakeholders.
Strong scripting, automation, analytical, troubleshooting, technical documentation, and communication skills.

Nice To Haves

AWS cloud certification, such as AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate, AWS Certified Developer - Associate, AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, or an equivalent current AWS credential.
Experience supporting federal or Department of Defense software-development, cloud, or modernization programs.
Experience supporting mission-critical, regulated, security-sensitive, or high-availability systems.
Experience with pipeline platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline, or comparable solutions.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, OpenTofu, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, or comparable technologies.
Experience with artifact repositories and registries such as Artifactory, Nexus, GitHub Packages, Amazon Elastic Container Registry, or comparable platforms.
Experience with containers, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, serverless services, or cloud-native platforms.
Experience integrating static-code analysis, dependency scanning, secret scanning, container scanning, software-composition analysis, or dynamic testing into pipelines.
Experience implementing policy-as-code, deployment gates, artifact signing, provenance verification, or software supply-chain controls.
Experience with automated database changes, configuration promotion, environment provisioning, or blue-green and canary deployment strategies.
Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, metrics, and operational-feedback tools.
Experience with Agile, DevSecOps, configuration-management, release-management, and secure software-development practices.
Familiarity with DoD security requirements, DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides, risk-management controls, and software-release governance.
Experience supporting cloud-hosted environments in AWS or another Government-approved cloud platform.

Responsibilities

Design, build, configure, maintain, and improve continuous-integration and continuous-delivery pipelines.
Maintain approved source-code repositories and branching, merging, pull-request, tagging, and release practices.
Develop and sustain repeatable, automated builds for applications, services, interfaces, infrastructure, and supporting components.
Integrate unit, integration, regression, security, accessibility, and other appropriate automated tests into delivery pipelines.
Develop and maintain automated deployment tooling across development, integration, testing, staging, and production environments.
Develop and maintain version-controlled infrastructure-as-code, configuration-as-code, and pipeline-as-code assets.
Maintain versioned scripts, templates, manifests, modules, parameters, and deployment configurations.
Implement controlled promotion processes and quality gates for movement between approved environments.
Support separation of duties, required approvals, artifact integrity, traceability, and release-authorization controls.
Develop and maintain automated rollback, recovery, redeployment, and environment-restoration capabilities.
Ensure build and deployment artifacts are stored, versioned, secured, and traceable to approved source code and releases.
Prepare and maintain build instructions, installation procedures, deployment procedures, configuration guidance, and rollback instructions.
Troubleshoot failed builds, automated tests, pipeline stages, artifact issues, deployment errors, and environment inconsistencies.
Perform root-cause analysis and implement durable corrections for recurring pipeline and deployment failures.
Monitor pipeline reliability, execution times, failure rates, deployment frequency, recovery performance, and related engineering metrics.
Incorporate feedback from development, testing, cybersecurity, release management, and operations teams into pipeline improvements.
Coordinate with cybersecurity personnel to integrate approved security scanning, dependency analysis, code analysis, artifact scanning, and compliance checks.
Protect credentials, keys, tokens, certificates, secrets, and service accounts used by build and deployment processes.
Support configuration-management baselines and ensure deployed components align with approved versions and release records.
Support development, integration, and test environments and help maintain consistency across environments.
Coordinate with cloud, infrastructure, database, network, and application teams to resolve deployment dependencies.
Support application modernization, cloud migration, platform transition, and release-readiness activities.
Participate in peer reviews, design reviews, pipeline reviews, security reviews, and technical walkthroughs.
Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily coordination, reviews, demonstrations, and retrospectives.
Provide implementation estimates and identify pipeline dependencies, technical risks, assumptions, constraints, and impediments.
Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, known-issue information, and troubleshooting guidance in approved repositories.
Support Government demonstrations, release validation, operational transition, and post-deployment verification.
Contribute to continuous improvement of DevSecOps, automation, configuration management, testing, release, and operational-feedback practices.