MANTECH seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented DevOps Engineer to join our team onsite in Norfolk, Virginia.

Join the  Navy's Continuous Training Environment ( NCTE )  program and contribute to the evolution of warfighter readiness. We provide critical engineering and technical expertise for the U.S. Navy's premier  Live, Virtual, Constructive (LVC)  training capability. Our work involves seamlessly integrating live training with synthetic systems to create highly realistic and complex global training environments. We also drive the development of advanced representations for joint, theater, and national systems, and model new weapons technologies and emerging threats, ensuring our forces are prepared for any challenge.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to: Perform a variety of systematic, disciplined, and quantifiable approaches to the development, operation, and maintenance of software systems supporting the Navy Continuous Training Environment (NCTE)

Understand the DevOps lifecycle from infrastructure and building, to monitoring and operating a product or service.

Implement testing schemes with build pipeline tools

Manage quarterly releases

Develop and provide government-approved release notes for each quarterly NTB release, and update all public-facing pages and documentation to reflect new releases

Conduct large-scale software deployments, or monitoring and testing, such as Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)

Write shell scripts to automate relevant tasks and implement advanced software development practices and agile development practices such as code reviews using source control

Work with container security technologies, evaluating and mitigating or resolving vulnerability findings

Guide Software development and deployment and prepare system engineering management plans and system integration and test plans

Work with the Development team to configure and deploy the CI/CD tools and ensure that the CI/CD tools are used effectively

Implement Quality Assurance (QA) automation to improve the speed, efficacy, and output of testing methodologies

Minimum Qualifications: High School Diploma and 3+ years of relevant DevOps experience

Experience with building and supporting DevOps tools and CI/CD Pipelines

Experience with automation and configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, or Ansible

Experience using SonarQube for code analysis

Experience with version control management using Git and GitLab is essential for efficient collaboration and code management

Must have a valid Security+ CE certification

Preferred Qualifications: Relevant work experience as a DevOps engineer within a U.S. Government environment, DoD strongly preferred

Knowledge of systems design/development lifecycle (SDLC), software systems theory and engineering principles, network/systems design and implementation, and virtualization

Experience with the container orchestration tools, such as Docker Swarm or Kubernetes

Experience with CI/CD tools, such as Jenkins

Clearance Requirements: US Citizenship and active Secret Security Clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain an Active Top Secret/ SCI security clearance

Physical Requirements: Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50%.

Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine and computer printer.

The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.