DevOps Engineer - REMOTE

About the role

JTEC Consulting is hiring an experienced DevOps Engineer with Linux Administration experience to join an established program working in support of a federal government customer building common services applications.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a collaborative team to build common services applications in an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) meeting project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces for development, sing, and production environments
• Support CI/CD architectures across multi-tenancy cloud environments and integrate distinct pipeline workflows (Jenkins/GitLab CI) to maintain continuous security and operational compliance
• Build, develop, integrate, and script for services and integration; build CI/CD applications in Jenkins and FlexDeploy
• Deploy Oracle-driven code focused on Oracle EBS and SOA
• Leverage Ansible-driven scripting to build and s end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, ensuring that systems are safe against security threats
• Author and maintain heavy documentation for the infrastructure/integration manual
• Support automation of Linux and other application related processes with Jenkins, Ansible, and various scripting tools
• Manage troubleshooting, logging, and auditing tasks in Linux
• Maintain Linux STIG/SRG Compliance including using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines including automated hardening tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet to apply security controls
• Orchestrate cross-tenancy deployment pipelines using Jenkins for complex Oracle middleware integration and GitLab CI for centralized security governance and GitOps-driven compliance auditing
• Automate checklist submissions (GitOps) following CI/CD best practices and program requirements
• Modify existing software to correct errors, adapt to new hardware, and improve performance
• Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints
• Store, retrieve, and manipulate data for analysis of system capabilities and requirements

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship; no dual citizenship
• Current Secret security clearance
• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline is preferred; associates degree or related military training may be considered in lieu of a degree
• Current Security+ or equivalent industry recognized technical certification to meet DoD 8570 compliance
• 7+ years of related experience expertise building, developing, integrating, and scripting programs for services and integration in a DevOps development including:
• 3+ years of overall experience must be recent work supporting Linux in a professional enterprise DevOps environment working with Ansible and Jenkins
• Multi-Tool: Ability to integrate distinct pipeline workflows (Jenkins, GitLab CI) to maintain continuous security and operational compliance across multi-tenancy environments
• Hardening: Experience working with STIGs and SRGs to ensure Linux environments are continuously hardened, scanned, and audit-ready; demonstrated ability to translate requirements into Ansible Playbooks using YAML.
• OCI/EBS: Experience deploying and troubleshooting Oracle-driven code (EBS/SOA) within OCI, focusing on plugin integration and middleware connectivity.
• Experience with CI/CD platform tools and technologies such as FlexDeploy, Jenkins (groovy), Ansible core (YAML), GitLab CI/CD
• Experience implementing and troubleshooting Linux in an enterprise environment
• Experience with Linux patching using DNF and YUM
• Strong knowledge of DNS/Networking and networking debugging with packet capture to support separation of groups and permissions within the environment
• Experience integrating and tracking automated sing and security scanning (SAST/DAST) within CI/CD pipelines, utilizing tools like Jenkins, BitBucket, Jira, and WebInspect
• Experience working with REST APIs to integrate scripts, playbooks, and support automation tasks
• Experience working with STIGs and SRGs to ensure Linux environment is continuously hardened, scanned, and audit ready; identify what needs to be hardened; translate requirements into Ansible Playbooks using YAML
• Experience setting up and configuring CI/CD agents on Linux Server to support automation using Jenkins
• Experience automating checklist submissions
• Experience supporting Ansible-driven sing and demonstrated skills to leverage scripting (bash, python, Ansible playbook)
• Strong scripting skills in more than one of these languages: python, bash, zsh, ksh, csh
• Strong configuration management knowledge and experience
• Experience in an OCI environment configuring, automating, and deploying applications on virtual images
• Developing and maintaining extensive program documentation for production-ready knowledge transfer
• Excellent organization skills and ability to manage work, provide accurate and realistic estimates, and meet deadlines
• Effective written and verbal communication skills to excel in a blended government and contractor team environment
• Ability to support individual and team workloads and operate productively as a member of a collaborative team
• Demonstrated experience staying abreast of new technologies and their applications meeting industry best practices

Preferred Experience

• Experience working with FlexDeploy is highly desired
• Experience supporting unified CI/CD architectures across multi-tenancy cloud environments is a plus