Principal DevOps Engineer with Security Clearance

At Envision Innovative Solutions, we're more than a technology company—we're a team of innovators, problem-solvers, and mission-focused professionals dedicated to making a meaningful impact. Since 2006, we have delivered innovative technology, engineering, cybersecurity, and mission support solutions to government and commercial clients. We foster a collaborative, and people-first culture where creativity is encouraged, professional growth is supported, and every team member has the opportunity to make a difference.
Envision is seeking a highly skilled Principal DevOps Engineer to join our team at Columbia, MD.

What You'll Do
As a Principal DevOps Engineer, you will lead the design, automation, deployment, and maintenance of scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure supporting mission-critical applications. Key responsibilities include:

• Support the development life cycle of platform architectural design, deployment and debugging
• Building a release pipeline to enable fast, but safe delivery of critical business software to Production\
• Develop & Maintain sound version control best practices-based CM systems (GIT), including branching and merging strategies
• Serve as a technical lead for an Agile team and actively participate in all Agile ceremonies. Participate in all team ceremonies including planning, grooming, product demonstration and team retrospectives.
• Ability to automate release deployments across development, test, staging, Quality Assurance and production stacks using a combination of scripting languages and other automation toolkits
• Set-up up new sites and applications via configuration management such as Puppet and Ansible
• Maintain / upgrade/ patch tracking and documentation software (Confluence / Jira)
• Create, Assist, and Implement design and maintenance web service infrastructure and deployments
• Analyze service stack and make recommendations for further improvements
• Identify processes and capabilities that can be streamlined and automated
• Maintain confidentiality with regard to information being processed, stored, or accessed
• Leverage programming Languages such as Python, Ruby, Perl, and Java
• Proficient with DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering methodologies.
• Proficient automating network infrastructure configuration using Software Defined Networking • Set up and configure a continuous integration environment by leveraging Configuration Management, containerization, serverless technologies, and Kubernetes.
• Architect and develop best practices for software build tools (Gradle, Maven, ANT, Shell) and continuous integration tools (Jenkins, Bamboo), and infrastructure automation (Amazon Web Services, VMWare, Puppet, Chef, ansible, etc.) Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or additional 4 years of experience)
• 10+ years of DevOps, Systems Engineering, or related experience
• Git and version control best practices
• Linux administration
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Jenkins and/or Bamboo
• AWS cloud environments
• Infrastructure Automation (Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment strategies

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Python, Go, Java, Ruby, C++, or similar programming languages
• Experience with Software Defined Networking (SDN)
• Experience supporting Platform as a Service (PaaS) environments
• Elasticsearch (Kibana a plus)
• Redis, ActiveMQ, Memcache, or similar technologies Security Clearance: • Current/Active TS/SCI with Polygraph. Why Envision Innovative Solutions?
• Long-Term Stability: With an average employee tenure of 7–10 years, Envision fosters a culture of stability, continuity, and sustained professional growth.
• Engineer-First Culture: Built by engineers, for engineers—where technical expertise, innovation, and practical problem-solving drive success.
• Minimal Bureaucracy: A streamlined organizational structure enables faster decision-making, greater agility, and efficient execution.
• Autonomy AND Mission Impact: Engineers are empowered to take ownership, make meaningful decisions, and contribute directly to mission-critical outcomes.
• Ideas Matter: Innovative thinking is encouraged, individual contributions are valued, and engineers have the opportunity to turn ideas into meaningful solutions.

Envision Innovative Solutions is an equal-opportunity employer. All Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran's status, age, disability or any other basis prohibited by law.