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ManTech DevOps Engineer in Chantilly, Virginia
Become an integral part of a diverse team while working at an Industry Leading Organization, where our employees come first. At ManTech International Corporation, you’ll help protect our national security while working on innovative projects that offer opportunities for advancement.
Currently, ManTech is seeking a motivated, mission-oriented DevOps Engineer , in the Chantilly, VA area managing our Atlassian tool suite (Jira and Confluence) and performing 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
Gather requirements for business processes, & determine ways to optimize/improve JIRA/Confluence/Bitbucket; build & configure
Understanding of JIRA APIs & webhooks
Implement custom XML based JIRA gadgets
Generate documentation on workflows & processes implemented in JIRA to support runbooks
Working knowledge with ITIL Operations Management & Service Management
Develop monitoring and observability capabilities to ensure workloads function as expected
Provide the right resources to users and manage upgrades and improvements to the software
Infrastructure management and automation through code, as well as general troubleshooting and issue resolution
Develop automated processes to [re-]provision infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts and methods
IaC support of a predominantly Windows environment including supporting Active Directory, Domain Controllers, FTP, DNS, GPO's, PKI, and DHCP
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree and 5 or more years’ experience, or high school diploma/GED and 7 or more years’ relevant experience
Be familiar with administering DevOps applications like Jira, Confluence, or Bitbucket
Be familiar with Database administration, JVM tuning
Security+ certification (active)
Occasional travel, 25% CONUS
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
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
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