Senior DevOps Engineer – Cloud Infrastructure & Core Services

Job summary

Designs, automates, deploys, and maintains secure AWS cloud infrastructure for mission applications and enterprise services in government environments. The role builds Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines, manages Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift deployments, integrates security testing, and supports AWS GovCloud and DoD Impact Level 5 systems.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• Typically 10 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Previous Intelligence Community experience.
• Hands-on AWS infrastructure experience, including networking, compute, storage, and IAM.
• Experience managing Kubernetes environments.
• Experience with Ansible, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Scripting experience with Python, Bash, or similar languages.
• Experience with Git and version-controlled infrastructure.
• Experience with Agile, DevOps, or DevSecOps practices.
• Agile Developer or Certified Scrum Developer certification.
• DoD 8140/8570 IAM Level II or III qualifications preferred.
• Experience with Red Hat OpenShift, AWS GovCloud, or DoD Impact Level 5 preferred.
• Experience with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, reusable Ansible automation, application security testing, container image scanning, stateful services, databases, or recovery procedures preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code and Ansible automation for consistent deployments.
• Deploy and manage containerized applications using Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated builds, testing, security checks, and deployments.
• Integrate security testing and vulnerability remediation into development workflows.
• Support AWS GovCloud and DoD Impact Level 5 environments.
• Implement centralized logging, monitoring, and alerting.
• Manage platform access controls, secrets, and certificates.
• Troubleshoot Linux, cloud networking, storage, and container orchestration issues.
• Automate patching, deployment validation, rollback, and recovery.
• Maintain technical documentation and operational procedures.

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