Kubernetes SME

Secure our Nation, Ignite your Future

ManTech is looking for a highly motivated and qualified Kubernetes SME in San Antonio, TX. This rewarding and challenging position supports the Department of Defense (DoD) to produce CI/CD pipelines for a wide range of capabilities to improve cyberspace operations and defend U.S. vital national security interests.

ManTech is dedicated to hiring the best of the best, and in order to do so we offer great pay and excellent benefits.

Position Responsibilities:

• Provide Kubernetes expertise in support of the DevSecOps Software Factory for Offensive Cyber Operations (OCO) and Information Warfare (IW) capability development and mission execution.
• Follow processes compliant with the published DoD Enterprise DevSecOps Reference Design
• Implement CI/CD pipeline technology stacks across multiple security classifications.
• Implement IaC and CaC technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kubernetes Operators, AWS Cloud Formation, and others to deploy a variety of Kubernetes-based DevSecOps platforms (Kubernetes upstream, Rancher, OpenShift, VMWare Tanzu) for unclassified and classified on-prem and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Enhance the cybersecurity and the code security process of the CI/CD pipeline and DevSecOps platform.
• Utilize new and continuously hardened containers from Iron Bank or similar repository.
• Develop various backend/automated processes for the automation of the container accreditation process in React/Python or other modern programming language as approved by the Government.
• Continuously work with the customer to improve their processes and timeliness for Enterprise DevSecOps deployments.
• Take self-initiative to remain knowledgeable and practiced in emerging cloud-based DevSecOps technologies and trends.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree and 7 or more years of relevant experience
• Top Secret US Security Clearance with SCI eligibility.
• DoD 8570 IAT Level II or greater certification.
• Demonstrated expertise in: Kubernetes, Istio, GitOps, Kubernetes Operators, Kubernetes Admission Controllers, Kubernetes Custom Resource Definition (CRD), custom Kubernetes Controllers, and Helm charts.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated knowledge of DoD Enterprise DevSecOps Reference Design.
• Demonstrated expertise of software development using languages such as C, C++, Java, Python, JavaScript, .NET, React, Node.js Go, etc.
• Demonstrated work experience with DevSecOps technologies such as GitLab, Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, Nexus, Artifactory, Fortify, SonarQube, Twistlock, Grafana, etc.
• Demonstrated work experience with database and data storage technologies such as Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Hadoop, Cloudera, Prometheus, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.
• Demonstrated work experience with source control and code repository tools.
• Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) certification.
• Kubernetes certification.

Security Clearance Requirements:

• Top Secret US Security Clearance with SCI eligibility

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