Senior Cybersecurity Automation Engineer

ManTech - Herndon, VA

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Herndon, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Secure our Nation, Ignite your Future. 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, we are seeking a motivated, career and team-oriented cybersecurity Senior Automation Engineer in support of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Continuous Diagnostic & Mitigation (CDM) Data Services Program. The CDM Data Services Program is a critical component of CISA's national effort to ensure the defense and resilience of cyberspace. This is a remote position where the candidate can work from any location within the United States provided they are able to work on an eastern time zone schedule. The CDM Data Services Program mission is to provide a standardized platform to collect, transform, and integrate cybersecurity data from relevant authoritative data sources into a coherent data, delivering actionable information into Agency and Federal Dashboards to identify risk areas in support of mitigation as well as to facilitate coordinated agency and national response to cyber-threats. Our Data Engineering and Quality team guides and verifies data transformations so that our automated solution delivers end-to-end results with confidence. The solution is managed in cloud environments and the team works closely with developers to create an automated continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) solution using Agile delivery methodologies. The Senior Automation Engineer's responsibilities include conducting full lifecycle analysis of data that includes requirements from DHS, other OMB initiatives, and provide automation support for the whole program. This position also requires building a new Automation practice on the program to address our client's most pressing needs with Cyber Security Threats and Data. The successful candidate will bring a consultative approach to data and use DevOps and Automation disciplines to improve the value of the data collected by our customers. This position requires a thought leader in the practice of Automation in solving our clients' cyber security problems, coupled with demonstrated experience designing and developing enterprise solutions for large clients by providing a new approach to the team, presenting white papers and other solutions.

Responsibilities

• Implement automation tools and frameworks.
• Create documentation supporting automation processes and tools.
• Evaluate, implement, and streamline DevOps practices.
• Design and implement deploying appropriate CI/CD tools.
• Design and implement automation in the build process for on-prem and cloud instances.
• Provide guidance for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline).
• Implement various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure.
• Establish troubleshooting techniques and fix code bugs.
• Monitor the processes during the entire lifecycle for adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing wastage.
• Work with Product owners and Project Managers to understand processes and identify areas of automation for improvement.
• Encourage and build automated processes wherever possible.
• Mentor and provide guidance to the engineering team members with automation improvements.
• Manage periodic reporting on the progress to senior management and customers.
• Manage GIT repositories supporting automation code.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree preferably in computer science or closely related field.
• Cyber Security Certifications (Preferred CISSP but will take Security+, GCIH, CEH).
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.
• Must possess excellent working knowledge of infrastructure automation tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, TerraForm etc.).
• Must possess excellent working knowledge in Automating Testing process utilizing code and best practice tools.
• Must possess excellent working knowledge in Centralized Repository such as GitHub, GitLab, AzureDevops, BitBucket etc.
• Must have strong expertise in operating environments and scripting languages like Python, Shell or PowerShell.
• Building strong cross-functional leadership skills and working together with the operations and engineering teams to make sure that systems are scalable and secure.
• Excellent knowledge of software development and software testing methodologies along with configuration management practices in Linux-based environment.
• Possess sound knowledge of cloud-based environment such as AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Experience handling automated deployment CI/CD tools.
• Hand on experience working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure.
• Ability to review deployment and delivery pipelines ie, implement initiatives to minimize chances of failure, identify bottlenecks and troubleshoot issues.
• Previous experience implementing continuous delivery and DevOps solutions.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Experience collaborating with other roles, such as solution architects, data engineers, data scientists, automation engineers, database administrators, and developers.

Nice-to-haves

• Demonstrated ability to present to senior leadership and client audiences.
• JIRA experience.
• MS SQL.