DevOps Engineer

Mantis Security is a leading specialty firm of high caliber talent who specialize in Cyber Operations, Cyber Defense, Information Assurance, Software Development, DevSecOps, Security Engineering, and Cloud Engineering. We enable and protect our nation's most important IT assets and invest in the long-term career development of every employee! We are currently looking for the next Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team of experts!

What you will be doing:

Candidate will develop CI/CD build and deploy pipelines; integrate tools into the pipeline and manage debugging integration issues. In addition, candidate will help integrate with various tools for the DevOps process.

Duties Include:
• Development of CI/CD Build and Deployment Pipelines
• Write/modify Helm Charts
• Write/update Python Scripts
• Write/update Terraform Plans
• Troubleshoot pipeline issues across Jenkins, Gitlab, Openshift and AWS Environments (Linux EC2, RDS, CloudFormation, Elasticsearch, etc…)
• Document key features for developer use
• Help write and maintain scripts for process improvements (ex: stage/unstage builds, branch tag automation, automating variance corrections across networks)
• Integrate tools into the pipeline
• Work with the development teams to bring in new microservices into the pipeline. Helping troubleshoot as necessary.
• Work through steps to automate installations of COTS products into the architecture
• Debugging integration issues
• Help identify issues in the deployment (i.e. potentially intermittent connectivity issues from an API Server to the Database)
• Monitor (and help develop scripts to monitor) the services to ensure everything is functioning as necessary
• DevOps Tool Integration
• Help integrate with various tools for the DevOps process (SonarQube, Fortify, Jenkins, Robot Framework/Selenium, Artifactory, Gitlab, Prisma etc…)

Must Have:

TS/SCI w/CI Poly
A Bachelor’s degree and 14 years of relevant experience OR a Master’s degree with 12 years of relevant experience OR a PhD with 9 years of relevant experience; an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of the degree requirement
Experience with Linux Environments
Experience with scripting languages, such as Bash and Python
Experience with HELM
Experience with Terraform and Terragrunt
Experience with Openshift or similar container environment
Experience with Git for Source Control
Understanding of Kubernetes or OpenShift Container Platform
Understanding and willingness to work in a DevSecOps oriented environment with an Infrastructure as Code mindset
DoD IAT Level II Certification (Security + CE, CISSP, etc.)

Nice to Have:

Basic understanding of an Object-Oriented Programming Language, such as Java
Experience developing, deploying, monitoring, and troubleshooting software solutions
Experience integrating Jenkins and Docker for automated CI/CD pipelines

We believe that our strength is in our employees. We offer employees the chance to work with great people on projects of high importance and are committed to providing the best culture that foster’s technical innovation and personal growth. To help our staff achieve a productive work-life balance, we offer a full range of highly competitive benefits for our employees and their families. For more information visit our website at