DevOps Engineer - REMOTE

DevOps Engineer - REMOTE
San Antonio, TX 78201

JTEC Consulting LLC focuses on successfully delivering solutions to meet our clients' most critical needs. Our founding members have decades of experience delivering a wide range of solutions to Air Force and DOD clients. We are a Veteran-Owned Small Business.

Security Clearance Requirement: Secret
Location Note: Remote from a U.S. based location will be considered

Position Description:
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. Qualified candidates will have experience with continuous integration, delivery, and deployment (CI/CD), cloud technologies, container orchestration, and security in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Experience building CI/CD applications with Jenkins is a must. Prior experience with Oracle EBS and SOA with plugins to ensure seamless connections is highly preferred. A current Security+ certification is required for consideration.

Duties and responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• 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, testing, 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
• Support build, development, integration, and scripting for services and integration; building CI/CD applications in Jenkins and FlexDeploy
• Deploy Oracle-driven code focused on Oracle EBS and SOA
• Utilize in-depth DNS, network troubleshooting, and packet capture to support Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), ensuring proper segregation of duties and secure permission structures across the environment
• Leverage Ansible-driven scripting to build and test end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, ensuring that systems are safe against security threats
• Author and maintain heavy documentation for the infrastructure/integration manual
• Provide Linux administration between DevOps team and Operations support such as web provisioning/OS provision for joining to domain, storage, and system monitoring
• 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
• Other duties, as assigned

Requirements include (but are not limited to):

• 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 testing 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 testing 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
• Experience 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

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JTEC Consulting LLC provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Salary:
JTEC offers competitive compensation and benefits to all employees. Salary ranges are advertised based on good faith estimates at the time of posting and indicating pay that JTEC anticipates for successful applicants. The estimated salary range displayed in this posting is dependent upon position requirements, individual qualifications, education, experience, location, and other job-related factors. Our recruiting team will review candidates' related experience and desired salary targets during the evaluation process. All qualified candidates will be considered.

Pay Range: $120,000 - $130,000 per year