DevOps Engineer; TS​/SCI w​/Poly

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 dedicated to bridging complex operational challenges with modern data solutions.

Current TS/SCI with polygraph

100% On-Site

Relo support for candidates outside the commuting area will be considered

JTEC Consulting is actively seeking a Dev Ops Engineer to join a growing team in the Herndon/Chantilly area. The Dev Ops Engineer will partner closely with software and data engineering teams to support and drive the adoption of Dev Ops culture, modern tooling, and automated delivery pipelines. Qualified candidate will have demonstrated experience to identify, prototype, engineer, and deploy emerging technologies into production baselines while operating a resilient suite of enterprise Dev Ops services.

This role is operating in hybrid, multi-cloud, and multi-domain environments and requires experience to author infrastructure as code (IaC), establish automated deployment pipelines, and enforce rigorous security standards. A current security clearance with agency-specific polygraph is strictly required for consideration.

• Dev Ops Strategy & Best Practices: Collaborate with the Chief Engineer and development teams to implement automation frameworks that accelerate delivery performance while minimizing operational risk
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Architect and maintain production-ready IaC using Terraform to achieve consistent, repeatable environment configurations and version-controlled infrastructure releases
• Containerization & Orchestration: Package and containerize Java and Python applications optimized for deployment across Kubernetes clusters, ensuring parallel processing, fault tolerance, and high availability
• Cloud Architecture & Cost Optimization: Leverage AWS architectural best practices to design autoscaling, resource scheduling, and workload management patterns that reduce compute costs across enterprise services
• Zero-Downtime Deployments: Design, build, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines supporting rolling updates, blue/green, or canary deployments with zero system downtime
• Dev Sec Ops  Integration: Partner with the Information System Security Engineer (ISSE) to integrate security scanning (SAST/DAST, container image scanning, compliance checks) directly into the build and release pipelines
• Configuration Management: Write and maintain runtime configuration scripts, custom environment definitions, and enterprise tooling configurations
• Agile
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Participate actively in Agile ceremonies, document workflows and architectures thoroughly, and support application teams onboarding onto the enterprise Dev Ops platform

• Current TS/SCI with agency-specific polygraph required for consideration
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline (equivalent years of direct experience considered in lieu of a degree)
• Effective written and verbal communication skills to support a cross-functional team

• Experience Level: 4–7+ years of dedicated experience in Dev Ops, Cloud Engineering, or Software Delivery Automation
• Container Orchestration: Hands‑on expertise building, deploying, and managing applications using Kubernetes and Helm Charts
• Containerization: Demonstrated experience containerizing enterprise workloads using Docker and/or Podman
  , adhering to industry best practices for layered caching and image…