Mantech

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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