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Dobbs Defense Solutions · 5 days ago

DevOps Engineer

Annapolis Junction, MD

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

Dobbs Defense Solutions is a company that delivers mission-centric IT, Cyber, and data analytics solutions for government and commercial clients. They are seeking a DevOps Engineer to maintain infrastructure-as-code deployment processes and enhance system reliability and performance by collaborating with engineering and security teams.

AnalyticsBusiness IntelligenceCommercialCyber SecurityInformation Technology

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Fostering the design, engineering, automation, provisioning, implementation, management and scaling of Microsoft server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux – powered cloud operating environments and infrastructure using Ansible Playbooks and Cloud Modules

Implement and enforce best practices for cloud security, risk management, and compliance

Conduct continuous security testing and code reviews to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities

Contribute to architectural designs, technical documentation, and provide engineering solutions aimed at enhancing security and user accessibility while keeping abreast of industry changes to cloud-based security technologies, tools, and industry best practices to inform managerial decisions and advise functional teams on updated secure coding practices

Collaborate with engineering teams to design end-to-end automation workflows that combine Ansible’s configuration management with Terraform’ s infrastructure provisioning to facilitate scalable, repeatable, and secure deployments and provide assistance, training, and mentoring to other engineers as the Automation SME

Qualification

DoD 8570.1/8140 IAT/M Level IIIDevSecOps principlesInfrastructure as Code (IaC)TerraformAnsibleCI/CD pipelinesHashiCorp ecosystemCloud certificationsAzure DevOpsAgile MethodologiesITIL Foundations certification

Required

Must have a current DoD 8570.1/8140 IAT/M Level III certification

Cloud, Automation, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) certificates/training may be required within 6 months of starting

Mastery of DevSecOps principles, demonstrated through expertise in securing and managing code repositories (e.g., Bitbucket, GitHub) and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps)

Proven experience designing and deploying cloud infrastructure and containerized workloads using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and best practices (Terraform, Bicep)

Proficiency in the HashiCorp ecosystem, including leveraging Nomad for container orchestration and Consul for service discovery and mesh networking

Proven track record of deploying Configuration as Code (Ansible, Chef, Puppet) to extend CI/CD (e.g., Azure DevOps) functionality, ensuring standardized server configurations and essential security hardening following infrastructure creation

Active TS/SCI