Sr. DevOps Engineer with Security Clearance

Base salary is $187,000–$204,000, supported by an exceptionally strong retirement benefit. 401(k): 25% employer contribution, vested immediately ($47,000–$51,000 per year). Total compensation: $234,000–$255,000 (base salary plus employer 401(k) contributions). Our client is seeking a Sr. DevOps Engineer to lead an Agile team building the release pipelines and automation that move mission-critical software into production quickly and safely. The engineer takes a whole-system view of how services are built and deployed, and works across teams to connect stakeholder needs with development work. Key responsibilities Pipeline and release automation:

• Build and maintain release pipelines that deliver critical software to production fast, without sacrificing safety.
• Automate deployments across development, test, staging, QA, and production using scripting and automation toolkits.
• Stand up continuous integration environments using configuration management, containers, serverless technologies, and Kubernetes.
• Set best practices for build tools (Gradle, Maven, Ant, shell), CI tools (Jenkins, Bamboo), and infrastructure automation (AWS, VMware, Puppet, Chef, Ansible). Platform and infrastructure:
• Support the full life cycle of platform architecture design, deployment, and debugging.
• Bring new sites and applications online through configuration management tools such as Puppet and Ansible.
• Design, implement, and maintain web service infrastructure and deployments.
• Automate network infrastructure configuration with software-defined networking.
• Assess the service stack, recommend improvements, and find processes that can be streamlined or automated.
• Apply high-availability architecture, performance tuning, and monitoring to meet SLA requirements. Version control and tooling:
• Establish and maintain Git-based configuration management, including branching and merging strategies.
• Maintain, upgrade, and patch Confluence and Jira.
• Write automation in languages such as Python, Ruby, Perl, and Java. Team leadership and collaboration:
• Serve as technical lead for an Agile team and take an active part in planning, grooming, demos, and retrospectives.
• Bridge stakeholder and development requirements through clear communication.
• Work across multiple teams, and step in to support deployment and operations when needed.
• Protect the confidentiality of all information processed, stored, or accessed. Qualifications The ideal candidate is a seasoned DevOps or SRE practitioner who reads code as well as they automate infrastructure, and who leads by example on an Agile team.

Required

• Bachelor's degree or higher in engineering (computer, electrical, mechanical, aerospace, etc.) or computer science, plus 10+ years of related experience (education does not count toward the total).
• 10+ years in an Agile development environment.
• 10+ years of system architecture experience, including reading code and following its logic to support troubleshooting.
• 10+ years managing and monitoring AWS cloud and virtualized servers in a Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment.
• Fluency with Git, and strong Linux skills across RHEL 6/7/8 and CentOS (RHCSA/RHCE-level knowledge).
• Windows system administration, including monitoring, instrumentation, resiliency, and performance.
• Object-oriented programming in at least one language such as Ruby, C, C++, Go, Python, or Java.
• Proficiency with DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering methods, and familiarity with SDLC models and Agile practices.
• Caching technologies (Memcache, ActiveMQ, Redis, APC, etc.), MySQL clustering, replication, and tuning, and Elasticsearch.
• Knowledge of security practices, networking protocols, firewalls, and PCI compliance.
• Ability to learn large, complex software systems well enough to isolate and reproduce defects, assess risk, and understand varied customer deployments.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills, with clear and precise written and verbal communication.
• Ability to work effectively with customers, developers, testers, project managers, and support staff.
• TS/SCI with a current Full Scope Polygraph at the time of application.

Desired

• Integrating Jenkins or Bamboo with Docker and Kubernetes for automated deployment.
• Kibana experience. Compensation and benefits Base salary is $187,000–$204,000, supported by an exceptionally strong retirement benefit. 401(k): 25% employer contribution, vested immediately ($47,000–$51,000 per year). Total compensation: $234,000–$255,000 (base salary plus employer 401(k) contributions)