DevOps Engineer

Tetrad Digital Integrity LLC • Washington, DC

1d • $180,000 - $190,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Tetrad Digital Integrity (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. This is a ground-floor opportunity to architect, build, and integrate cutting-edge infrastructure solutions in support of 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level