DevOps Engineer

General information

Requisition # R61445 Locations USA-VA-Chantilly Posting Date 06/27/2025 Security Clearance Required TS/SCI w/ Poly Remote Type Onsite Time Type Full time

Description & Requirements

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ManTech seeks a motivated, mission-oriented DevOps Engineer, in the Chantilly, VA area.
 

The DevOps Engineer will manage our Atlassian tool suite (Jira and Confluence) and perform infrastructure management, automation, and troubleshooting across our IT environment. As the DevOps engineer responsible for the Atlassian suite, you will manage Confluence to ensure each person on a project team has access to all materials needed.  You will assist with architecting, designing, and building Atlassian JIRA/Confluence custom plugins customer requirements & projects. Managing the Atlassian tool chain includes workflows, custom fields, schemes, add-ons, pages, content, spaces, permissions, and integrations will benefit customer research and products.  The primary goal is to automate repetitive tasks, reduce manual intervention, and improve the overall user experience, quality, and reliability of software.
 

Responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Plan, schedule, implement, & communicate JIRA & plug-in upgrades in accordance with requirements, & established policies & procedures
• Architect, administer, and troubleshoot JIRA deployments & projects; focus on providing platform for Housing units to administer, track & report on department-wide projects & issues
• Manage Jira to include onboarding new projects onto the platform, as well as configuring the layout, design, workflow, and reporting dashboards
• Analyze current JIRA configurations & migrate to new instances; code, test, & debug new software/applications or make new enhancements to existing software/ applications & provide solutions using JIRA
• Ability to create complex JIRA workflows, screen, permission, & notification schemes, & to provide/configure JIRA for manual processes
• Work independently with stakeholders & clients to design & deliver JIRA workflows to meet the stated & unstated business requirements
• Occasional travel, 25% CONUS
   

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and 5 or more years’ of relevant software development experience, or high school diploma/GED and 7 or more years’ relevant software development experience
• Be familiar with administering DevOps applications like Jira, Confluence, or Bitbucket
• Be familiar with Database administration, JVM tuning
• Be familiar with JIRA APIs & webhooks and the implementation of custom XML based JIRA gadgets
• Be familiar with infrastructure management and automation through code, as well as general troubleshooting and issue resolution
• Be familiar with the development of automated processes to [re-]provision infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts and methods
• Security+ or CISSP certification (active)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with DevOps tools such as Git, Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet
• Experience in both a Windows and Linux OS environment
• Experience with version control tools such as Git, Github, Gitlab, or BitBucket
• Previous NRO and NRO/COMM experience
• ITIL Foundations or higher certification
• Strong communication skills due to variety of groups to be working with, such as co-workers, management, and customers

Security Clearance Requirements:

• Must possess an active TS/SCI with Polygraph

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to be in a stationary position more than 50% of the time
• Must be able to communicate, converse, & exchange information with peers & senior personnel
• Constantly operates a computer & other office productivity machinery, such as a computer
• Constantly positions self to maintain computers in the lab, including under the desks & in the server closet
• Frequently moves Audio/Visual or Computer equipment weighing up to 50 pounds across & around a business campus or large facility
  
   

ManTech International Corporation considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to disability or veteran status or any other status protected under any federal, state, or local law or regulation.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to apply for a position with ManTech, please email us at careers@mantech.com and provide your name and contact information.