DevOps Engineer; Ansible

Overview

K ’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

• Monitor cloud environments, perform regular maintenance, and troubleshoot issues as they arise.
• Implement and enforce best practices for cloud security, compliance, and risk management.
• Conduct ongoing security testing and code reviews to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities.
• Contribute to architectural designs, technical documentation, and provide engineering solutions for improved security.
• Stay current with new tools, technologies, and industry best practices, and advise teams on secure coding practices.
• Integrate Terraform with Ansible to automate the provisioning and configuration of infrastructure, ensuring a seamless and consistent infrastructure-as-code (IaC) deployment process across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Use Terraform to manage and provision infrastructure resources (e.g., compute, storage, networking) and leverage Ansible for post-provisioning configuration management, including application deployments and security hardening.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to design end-to-end automation workflows that combine Terraform s infrastructure provisioning with Ansible’s configuration management, ensuring scalable, repeatable, and secure deployments.

• Top Secret with SCI.
• Requires 5 to 8 years with BS/BA or 3 to 5 years with MS/MA or 0 to 2 years with PhD.
• Experience in software engineering and integration of Commercial Off-the-Shelf software products.
• Must have a current DoD 8570.1-M IAT Level III certification.

• Strong working knowledge of Terraform to automate configuration management and streamline operational tasks.

$110,000 to $120,000

This range is for the Maryland area only

The offered rate will be based on the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities and/or experience and in consideration of internal parity.

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K  is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

R2111347

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries IT Services and IT Consulting