Senior DevOps Engineer - Lead CI/CD & Cloud Automation

MANTECH; Maryland; On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

MANTECH is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer in Annapolis Junction, MD to lead automation, CI/CD, and cloud operations across Linux and Windows environments. The role requires deep Jenkins/Docker/Kubernetes experience, Ansible/Puppet, and strong scripting skills.

You will drive infrastructure provisioning, security compliance, and cross-functional collaboration with development and operations teams. You will guide release pipelines, optimize performance, and implement scalable architectures while

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor's degree in a technical field and 10+ years in systems, cloud, DevOps, or IT engineering.
• Experience managing AWS cloud infrastructure and Linux environments (RHEL/CentOS).
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with Ansible/Puppet and Docker/Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Manage source control workflows using Git, including branching and merging strategies.
• Build, maintain, and modify CI/CD release pipelines across Dev, QA, Staging, and Production environments.
• Act as technical lead for an Agile team and bridge requirements across stakeholders, developers, and support teams.
• Perform system administration, monitoring, instrumentation, and performance tuning for Linux and Windows environments.
• Provision and configure infrastructure with Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or SDN; maintain Memcached, ActiveMQ, Redis sloc.
• Manage MySQL/PostgreSQL deployment and Elasticsearch (Kibana).
• Set up Docker/Kubernetes (including RKE2) deployments, containerized and serverless.
• Apply security practices and standards (NIST, RMF, STIGs) across platforms.
• Troubleshoot complex issues by reading code and architecture and automating tasks.
• Develop and review automation scripts in Python, Java, Go, Ruby, or Shell.

Skills

Communication

Cross-functional teamwork

Troubleshooting

Code reading

Education

Bachelor's degree in technical field

Tools

Git

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Jenkins

Bamboo

Maven

Gradle

Shell scripting

RKE2

VMware

Kafka

NiFi

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Elasticsearch

Kibana

SDN

RMF

STIGs

Job description

MANTECH is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer in Annapolis Junction, MD to lead automation, CI/CD, and cloud operations across Linux and Windows environments. The role requires deep Jenkins/Docker/Kubernetes experience, Ansible/Puppet, and strong scripting skills.

You will drive infrastructure provisioning, security compliance, and cross-functional collaboration with development and operations teams. You will guide release pipelines, optimize performance, and implement scalable architectures while