Associate DevSecOps Engineer
About The Position
As an Associate DevSecOps Engineer at Rancher Government Solutions, you will be a strategic technical force responsible for delivering expert-level implementation within a team of engineers and architects. Driving mission success focused on the Rancher portfolio of products within the Federal Government. You will work directly with our cleared agency clients (TS//SCI with FSP), providing technical engineering support, architectural guidance, and hands-on keyboard engineering activity to ensure their complex container, CI/CD, DevOps, Infrastructure, and Kubernetes initiatives are successful. This role is instrumental in translating customer needs into robust, secure, and scalable production and mission environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree or 3+ years of professional or military experience
- 1–3 years of experience in systems administration, software development, or a junior DevOps/SRE role focused on infrastructure.
- Requires TS//SCI Clearance w/ Full Scope Polygraph
Nice To Haves
- Foundational knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and Linux administration.
- Exposure to DevOps concepts, CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab, Jenkins), and automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform).
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to explain technical tasks to cleared end-users.
- Proactive, self-motivated learner with strong problem-solving and analytical capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Act as a hands-on keyboard engineer for government agency customers, assisting in the deployment and maintenance of Rancher-based Kubernetes and Container solutions.
- Provide foundational DevOps technical support and troubleshooting assistance for the Rancher product portfolio and complimentary open-source technologies.
- Assist in the implementation of technical solutions and proof-of-concepts to solve customer problems while adhering to government security requirements.
- Actively work toward maintaining a deep understanding of the Rancher portfolio and adjacent technologies like Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines.
- Collaborate with customers and senior team members to implement and operationalize Rancher solutions.
- Assist in documenting customer feature requests and use cases to help internal teams understand client needs.
- Support technical deep dives and workshops to help users understand the value of Rancher solutions.
- Build professional technical relationships with customer stakeholders and partners.
- Assist in Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines for the automated deployment of highly available, mission-critical systems and Rancher products across integration, test, and operational environments.
- Assist in development of reusable scripts and templates to build rapid development and test systems, ensuring consistent and repeatable environments for rapid prototyping.
- Contribute to the development of technical documentation, best practices, and knowledge sharing to support the wider RGS organization.
- Participate in internal training and community engagement to stay current with industry trends.
- Other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Number of Employees
11-50 employees
