DevOps Engineer

MANTECH•Fort Detrick, MD

2d•$98,000 - $163,100•Hybrid

About The Position

MANTECH seeks a motivated, customer-oriented DevOps Engineer to support a Defense Health Agency program within its Health Portfolio. The role is based in Fort Detrick, Maryland, and is hybrid, with three days onsite and two days remote. The position is part of a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Systems Team that provides infrastructure support, DevOps tools, CI/CD pipeline management, and shared technical services across an agile Release Train and two predictive projects focused on source systems. The role reports to the DevSecOps Manager and Lead Technology Architect. The engineer supports software systems and subsystems related to medical logistics, business intelligence, and system integration. They provide DevOps tooling and system administration, monitor system health, support traditional and infrastructure-as-code deployments and configuration management, and help evaluate and improve the pipeline and its tools. The position participates throughout the development lifecycle, collaborates with developers and other technical stakeholders, maintains plans and documentation, and promotes DevOps and DevSecOps standards and practices. Applicants must be U.S. citizens and have Public Trust suitability and a completed Tier 2 Investigation for a DoD Common Access Card (CAC) before starting. The projected compensation range is $98,000 to $163,100. MANTECH benefits, depending on position, include health and life insurance, paid time off, holiday pay, short- and long-term disability, retirement and savings, learning and development opportunities, wellness programs, and optional benefit elections.

Requirements

Meet DoDM 8140.03 education and certification criteria: a bachelor's degree from an ABET-accredited or CAE-designated institution in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or Software Engineering; alternatively, four years of related experience plus one of the listed current certifications may be considered in lieu of a degree.
Alternatively, for non-compliance with DoDM 8140.03, have at least four years of progressive experience in large-scale systems administration or software development, including at least one year focused on system health-check monitoring, DevOps, CI/CD, IaC, or a related area; at least two years of technical experience with complex software development projects, particularly legacy modernization or migration to cloud platforms; and one of the listed current certifications.
Hold one of the specified current certifications: Cloud+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+, SSCP, CCNP Security, CCSP, FITSP-O, GFACT, or SecurityX / CASP+.
Experience working with interconnected software systems, back-end processes, and integration functionality, including transactional systems, business intelligence and reports, and data integration pipelines using traditional ETL and modern APIs or message queues.
Experience with GitLab, including runners, pipelines, and API access; Jenkins; Atlassian Jira and Confluence; OpenID Connect (OIDC); and scripting languages such as Bash, JavaScript, Python, Groovy, or PowerShell.
Strong interpersonal, problem-solving, and trade-off analysis skills, particularly coordinating across teams when architecture changes affect multiple subsystems.
Be a U.S. citizen with Public Trust suitability and a completed Tier 2 Investigation for a DoD Common Access Card before starting.

Nice To Haves

Enterprise logistics and supply chain experience, particularly medical logistics involving inventory and cataloging, lifecycle management and tracking, and related industry or regulatory standards.
Understanding of logistics-related challenges as they relate to software system design and improvement.
Experience with AWS GovCloud and managing architecture spanning legacy or migrating systems and cloud-based software.
Experience with API integration between Atlassian and GitLab.
Experience or certification with SAFe, CI/CD approaches, and advanced DevOps practices.
Compliance with DoDM 8140.03 Core KSATs under DCWF Work Role 627 (DevSecOps Specialist – Intermediate), including vulnerability scanning and recognition, operations-based testing scenarios, security and risk analysis, container platforms, threat modeling, security throughout development, testing, release, and lifecycle maintenance.

Responsibilities

Operate as a member of a SAFe Systems Team developing and maintaining software systems and subsystems for medical logistics, business intelligence, and system integration.
Provide DevOps tooling and system administration support, including system health-check monitoring with Nagios, Grafana, and Splunk, and support CI/CD tools, infrastructure-as-code deployment, and configuration management.
Work with the DevSecOps Manager, Lead Technology Architect, and Senior DevOps Engineer to analyze the current pipeline and related tools, recommend improvements, and manage the approved prioritized backlog of changes.
Participate throughout the development lifecycle by supporting infrastructure and the CI/CD pipeline and collaborating with developers, system administrators, security experts, operational and monitoring senior developers, other DevOps engineers, and technical staff.
Enforce DevOps and DevSecOps standards and best practices.
Maintain and follow plans and documentation, and drive DevOps, DevSecOps, and Systems Team backlog grooming.
Enforce standards and best practices for system health-check monitoring, CI/CD approaches, and tools.