Devops Engineer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Active U.S. Government Secret clearance or higher and U.S. citizenship.
• Depending on the opening, an active Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI, or an active TS/SCI clearance.
• General openings: at least five years of relevant experience with a related bachelor’s degree, three years with a related master’s degree, or nine years with a high-school diploma or equivalent.
• Openings with more extensive technical leadership: at least nine years of relevant experience with a related bachelor’s degree, seven years with a related master’s degree, or 13 years with a high-school diploma or equivalent.
• Hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes or comparable container orchestration, Linux administration and troubleshooting, and cloud deployment.
• Experience with AWS services such as EKS, EC2, EBS, S3, or Lambda, together with Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent infrastructure and configuration tools.
• Ability to write automation using Python, Bash, or Go; familiarity with Git, Flux, or comparable delivery tooling.
• Strong independent problem-solving and communication skills, and ability to work with Agile delivery teams.
• Ability to meet onsite and travel requirements, which may include five days per week at a customer site.
• For designated openings, a DoD 8140/8570-compliant certification such as Security+ may be required at start or within a specified period after hire.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting Big Data Platforms, data lakes, or distributed-data workloads.
• Experience with Hadoop, Accumulo, Ceph, Spark, NiFi, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, or comparable services.
• Hands-on experience with Helm, Flux, K9s, AWS CLI, and AWS services such as SNS, SQS, or Diode.
• Experience with container and operating-system security hardening.
• Experience supporting hybrid cloud and edge mission environments.
• Experience designing performance improvements for high-availability systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop, deploy, and maintain secure AWS infrastructure, including Kubernetes environments and managed container workloads.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and configuration-management processes.
• Deploy and support on-premises or portable edge infrastructure, depending on the opening.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize application, cluster, and supporting-system performance, availability, and scalability.
• Work with application teams to integrate services into repeatable deployment and release processes.
• Use Python, Bash, or Go to automate operations, deployments, and recurring administrative tasks.
• Maintain documentation, participate in Agile delivery, and improve operational security and reliability.
• For openings with technical leadership responsibilities, mentor teammates, guide troubleshooting, and coordinate engineering work.
• Depending on the opening, administer EKS, container builds, Kubernetes orchestration, AWS networking and storage, and deployment automation.
• Depending on the opening, deploy portable or non-cloud environments, support operating-system provisioning, and troubleshoot edge connectivity.
• Depending on the opening, own monitoring, incident troubleshooting, scaling, GitOps workflows, and repeatable CI/CD release processes.
• Depending on the opening, provide technical guidance, mentoring, complex troubleshooting leadership, and coordination across customer and engineering teams.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Health Savings Account with company contribution.
• Annual paid time off and paid holidays.
• Paid parental leave.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Training and development opportunities.
• Award programs.
• Company-sponsored events.
• Competitive pay and opportunities for professional growth.