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Senior DevOps Engineer
TheIncLab · Colorado Springs, CO, United States
Colorado Springs, CO, United StatesExp: 5+ yrs125,000-160,000 USD/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
125,000-160,000 USD/yearly
Location
Colorado Springs, CO, United States
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Senior DevOps Engineer supports infrastructure operations and site reliability, with a focus on Kubernetes administration, secure deployments, and uptime, performance, and observability across cloud and other environments. The role manages self-hosted GitLab and CI/CD pipelines, automates infrastructure with AWS, Terraform, Ansible, and Helm, and improves reliability through incident response, monitoring, SLOs/SLIs, and capacity planning.
Benefits
Professional development programsTraining and certification reimbursementExtended and floating holidaysPaid time offPaid volunteer timeMedical, dental, and vision insuranceWellness, mental health, and employee assistance programsSupplemental life insurance401(k) with employer matchingIncentive bonuses for eligible clearances, performance, and referrals
Qualifications
- At least 5 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering.
- Experience with AWS services, including EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, and IAM.
- Experience deploying and managing infrastructure with Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, or Ansible.
- Experience managing and automating GitLab and CI/CD pipelines.
- Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language, such as Python or Bash.
- Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and alerting with tools such as CloudWatch, Datadog, or CloudTrail.
- Familiarity with Git and GitLab workflows.
- AWS certification or equivalent practical experience preferred.
- CKA certification or equivalent practical experience preferred.
- Experience with EKS or Rubix Cluster preferred.
- U.S. citizenship and eligibility and willingness to obtain a Secret or Top Secret security clearance; existing clearance preferred.
Responsibilities
- Create reliable deployment paths from development to production with developers and QA.
- Manage secure and performant self-hosted GitLab instances.
- Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and maintenance with Terraform, Ansible, and Helm.
- Apply infrastructure-as-code practices across AWS, Kubernetes, and bare-metal environments.
- Design monitoring, alerting, and observability systems for availability and performance.
- Respond to incidents, lead root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.
- Establish and evolve service-level objectives and indicators.
- Participate in on-call operations and automate tasks to reduce manual intervention.
- Lead capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost optimization.
- Deploy Helm packages to production environments.
- Triage environment-specific issues and coordinate across teams.
- Enforce infrastructure security practices, including IAM, RBAC, and least privilege.
- Design configuration management systems across environments.
Skills
AnsibleAWSBashCloudWatchDatadogEKSGitGitLabGitLab CIHelmIAMKubernetesLinuxPythonS3TerraformWindows
Certifications
AWS certification or equivalent practical experienceCKA Kubernetes certification or equivalent practical experience
Languages
PythonBash
Work schedule
Flexible scheduleOn-call rotation
Industry
DefenseAerospace
Security clearance
Must be eligible and willing to obtain a Secret or Top Secret security clearanceExisting clearance preferred
Relocation
No