TDI is seeking a DevOps Engineer to support a brand-new Agile development team at the forefront of federal IT modernization, delivering real digital transformation where it matters most. This is a rare ground-floor opportunity to architect, build, and integrate cutting-edge infrastructure solutions in support of some of our nation's most sensitive and critical missions.
This is a fully onsite opportunity requiring a daily commute to the Washington, DC area. An active TS/SCI security clearance is required.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develop automated CI/CD build/deployment pipelines using Jenkins (CloudBees), Artifactory, Kubernetes (OpenShift), Docker, Ansible and Bitbucket.
- Assist with the deployment, configuration, testing, troubleshooting, maintenance, updates/upgrades of Kafka and Elastic clusters and environments.
- Configure applications to integrate network data into an Elastic (ELK) stack hosted in an AWS cloud environment.
- Configure applications in accordance to meet DoD security standards, including DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs).
- Develop, and maintain centralized dashboards and observability solutions to monitor application health, performance, availability, security posture, infrastructure utilization, and cloud spend across environments.
- Implement proactive monitoring, alerting, and automation using metrics, logs, traces to improve incident detection, operational visibility, root cause analysis, and system reliability.
- Implement cloud and infrastructure cost optimizations through resource utilization analysis, rightsizing, idle resource identification, storage and compute optimization, and FinOps best practices.
- Manage enterprise certificate lifecycle operations, including certificate provisioning, renewal, rotation, expiration monitoring, and automation to ensure secure and uninterrupted service delivery.
- Collaborate with DevOps, Security, Cloud, and Application Engineering teams to integrate security controls, compliance monitoring, automation, and operational standards into CI/CD pipelines and production environments.
- Work with an Agile team, attend daily scrums and demonstrate working software while collaborating with a geographically distributed (remote) team.
- Develop automated tests using Ansible, Selenium, JMeter, JUnit and/or other applicable tools.
- Troubleshoot and resolve installation, infrastructure and system issues.
- Proactively and independently identify, report, monitor and mitigate technical risks.
- Active DoD TS/SCI security clearance. Ability to pass additional customer suitability screening(s) prior to start.
- Current Security+ or equivalent/higher
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical discipline, plus 8 – 12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6 – 10 years of prior relevant experience.
- Experience developing software in an Agile environment, including the ability to quickly learn new technologies on a rapidly growing project.
- Ability to multi-task, self-assign work, and work in a geographically distributed team in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Experience with distributed version control software such as Git and Bitbucket.
- Experience developing software on a Linux platform.
- Knowledge of and ability to apply principles, theories, and concepts of Software Engineering.
- Strong communication skills that enable proactive and effective collaboration with a virtual team, including the ability to clearly articulate status and present to both customers and program leadership.
- Full software lifecycle experience (design, development, test, deployment), including deployment to a production environment.
- Experience developing software in an Agile environment, including the ability to quickly learn new technologies on a rapidly growing project.
- Software development experience with Python and Java and SQL, including integration experience with JSON/REST web services, as well as the parsing, generation and validation of JSON. Working knowledge of JavaScript.
- Experience designing, developing and deploying software in a cloud environment (AWS is a plus).
- Experience designing, building and deploying DevOps pipelines with Bitbucket, Git, Jenkins, Artifactory and Ansible (or equivalent tools).
- Experience designing and implementing application deployment pipelines and developing software in a containerized environment with Kubernetes and Docker.
The anticipated salary range for this position is $180,000 - $190,000. This range is a good-faith estimate and not a guarantee of compensation. Final compensation will be based on factors including experience, education, skills, geographic location, internal equity, market data and applicable contract requirements, and may fall outside the posted range.
Skills Required
- Active DoD TS/SCI security clearance
- Ability to pass additional customer suitability screenings
- Current Security+ certification or equivalent/higher
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical discipline and 8–12 years of relevant experience, or master's degree and 6–10 years of relevant experience
- Experience developing software in an Agile environment
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly in a rapidly growing project
- Ability to multitask, self-assign work, and collaborate with geographically distributed teams
- Experience with Git and Bitbucket or similar distributed version control software
- Experience developing software on Linux
- Knowledge of software engineering principles, theories, and concepts
- Strong communication skills for collaboration and presentations to customers and program leadership
- Full software lifecycle experience, including design, development, testing, deployment, and production deployment
- Software development experience with Python, Java, SQL, JSON, REST web services, and JSON parsing, generation, and validation
- Working knowledge of JavaScript
- Experience designing, developing, and deploying software in a cloud environment; AWS experience preferred
- Experience designing, building, and deploying DevOps pipelines with Bitbucket, Git, Jenkins, Artifactory, and Ansible or equivalent tools
- Experience designing and implementing application deployment pipelines in Kubernetes and Docker containerized environments
What We Do
For over 20 years, TDI’s one and only passion has been delivering cybersecurity solutions to effectively manage the business of cyber. At the global vanguard of innovation, we created Cybersecurity Performance Management (CPM) and the industry-leading CPM platform, CnSight®. Combining CnSight® with our remarkable historical experience and our exceptional capabilities of cyber operations and compliance, we offer Managed Cybersecurity Performance, a first of its kind managed CPM offering. TDI’s CPM solutions mitigate risk, reduce ransomware, provide continuous compliance, improve cyber-ROI, and provide comprehensive instantaneous visibility into how an organization is performing against its cyber strategy, particularly for Boards of Directors. CnSight® is the industry-leading Cybersecurity Performance Management (CPM) platform which mitigates risk, reduces ransomware, provides continuous compliance, improves cyber-ROI, and provides comprehensive instantaneous visibility into how an organization is performing against its cyber strategy, so executives and Boards may effectively manage the business of cybersecurity– the result: reduced stress, better performance, less cost, and a true understanding of cyber investment. With CnSight® at its core, TDI’s Managed Cybersecurity Performance offering ensures strategic cyber goals are met to protect an organization’s investments, assets and reputation by reducing the risk of ransomware, lowering cyber insurance premiums, improving ROI, reducing legal and fiduciary liability, delivering actionable reporting to the Board and C-Suite, providing on-call advice, ensuring continuous compliance and providing subject matter expertise on the organization’s behalf in meeting with the C-Suite and the Board, dealing with auditors, and supporting budget decisions – the result: reduced stress, better performance, less cost, and a true understanding of cyber investment.









