DevOps Engineer - TS/SCI clearance - Chantilly, VA

PGTEK•Chantilly, VA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

PGTEK is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to support a federal customer in Chantilly, Virginia. The role supports the design, deployment, maintenance, and security of enterprise IT infrastructure for mission-critical workloads. The engineer works with a multidisciplinary team across the infrastructure stack, including operating systems, networking, identity management, authentication services, Kubernetes, OpenShift, storage, and application platforms. The position focuses on automating infrastructure deployment and configuration, supporting containerized applications, maintaining platform services, and ensuring infrastructure reliability, security, and scalability. The engineer will work onsite five days per week and must hold an active TS/SCI clearance with the ability to maintain program access. PGTEK describes itself as a consulting organization that helps clients meet business and technology objectives. It invests in employees’ educational advancement by providing resources for professional and business certifications.

Requirements

Active TS/SCI clearance and ability to maintain program access.
Ability to work onsite five days per week in Chantilly, Virginia.
Proficiency administering multiple operating systems, including Linux and Windows.
Strong understanding of operating-system configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
Experience supporting enterprise infrastructure and platform services.
Understanding of networking concepts including bonding, bridging, VLANs, firewalls, and network troubleshooting.
Ability to analyze complex issues across operating systems, networking, and infrastructure components.
Experience deploying, managing, and monitoring Kubernetes environments and supporting applications running in Kubernetes.
Hands-on experience containerizing applications using Docker and/or Podman; familiarity with Kubernetes and/or OpenShift environments.
Working knowledge of authentication protocols and methodologies, with experience in one or more of IdM, OIDC, Keycloak, or Authentik.
Understanding of authentication, authorization, encryption, and access-control principles, and ability to troubleshoot related infrastructure issues.
Knowledge of one or more scripting or programming languages, including Python, Go, or Bash, and ability to develop scripts for infrastructure administration, configuration, deployment, and troubleshooting.
Understanding of automation principles and repeatable infrastructure processes, and ability to identify operational-efficiency improvements through automation.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to work effectively with cross-functional engineering teams.
Strong communication and technical documentation skills.
Flexibility to adapt to changing requirements and priorities, and commitment to continued learning and professional development.
Ability to lift and carry up to 25 pounds.

Nice To Haves

Experience administering file, block, and object storage technologies, including NFS and S3-compatible storage.
Understanding of storage provisioning, configuration, integration, and troubleshooting, including within Kubernetes and enterprise infrastructure environments.
Experience managing, implementing, and validating disaster recovery processes; familiarity with backup, recovery, restoration, and disaster recovery testing.
Understanding of platform availability, resiliency, and recovery requirements.
Experience deploying and using locally hosted large language models (LLMs), familiarity with local AI workload infrastructure, or experience supporting containerized AI applications.
Experience with Linux networking and advanced troubleshooting tools; familiarity with iptables and eBPF.
Experience using tcpdump and Wireshark for network diagnostics and packet analysis.

Responsibilities

Design, deploy, configure, maintain, and secure enterprise IT infrastructure supporting mission-critical workloads.
Support infrastructure services and platforms including DNS, IdM, OpenShift Container Platform, OAuth, DHCP, S3, NFS, and application services.
Automate deployment and configuration of operating systems, applications, infrastructure services, and platform components.
Support infrastructure lifecycle activities including provisioning, configuration, maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
Analyze complex infrastructure issues and develop sustainable technical solutions.
Collaborate with architects, developers, platform engineers, network engineers, security teams, and project management to deliver and sustain infrastructure capabilities.
Support infrastructure scalability, availability, security, and operational performance.
Deploy, configure, manage, and monitor Kubernetes environments and containerized applications.
Support Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, and Podman environments; automate platform component deployment and maintenance; and troubleshoot clusters and workloads.
Containerize applications and support their deployment and lifecycle management across containerized environments.
Administer, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Linux-based infrastructure and support Linux, Windows, BSD, and UNIX environments.
Perform system configuration, software installation, patching, upgrades, and operational maintenance.
Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot network infrastructure, including bonding, bridging, VLANs, firewalls, DNS, and DHCP.
Support identity management, authentication, authorization, access control, and secure access to infrastructure and applications.
Use or support IdM, OIDC, Keycloak, and Authentik authentication technologies and resolve related issues.
Develop and maintain automation scripts using Python, Go, Bash, or other scripting languages.
Automate infrastructure provisioning, system configuration, application deployment, and platform maintenance; improve repeatability and reduce manual administration.
Develop and maintain technical documentation, configuration procedures, and operational runbooks.
Support enterprise file, block, and object storage, including NFS and S3-compatible storage; assist with provisioning, configuration, access, and integration.
Support application stack deployment, configuration, and maintenance, and troubleshoot dependencies across storage, networking, operating systems, and applications.
Communicate technical issues, proposed solutions, and infrastructure changes, while adapting to changing program priorities.

Benefits

Comprehensive PPO medical coverage with access to a Health Savings Account (HSA) option.
Vision plan.
Dental insurance, with the base dental plan paid for by PGTEK.
Life insurance premiums covered.
Short- and long-term disability insurance premiums covered.
Critical illness insurance premiums covered.
Matching 401(k) plan.
Discount on pet insurance through ASPCA Pet Insurance.
Employee Assistance Program at no cost to employees.
Generous PTO and holidays.
Education Assistance Program available after 12 months of employment.
Resources to complete professional and business certifications.