Sr DevOps Engineer

Job summary

Design and operate secure, reliable infrastructure using automated provisioning, configuration management, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and workflow automation. The role covers enterprise Linux systems, identity and access services, containerized workloads, software and artifact distribution, security hardening, incident response, and root-cause analysis, with technologies including Python, shell, LDAP, Kerberos, and PKI.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of systems, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering experience.
• Experience applying infrastructure as code, version control, peer review, automated testing, and continuous delivery.
• Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to technical standards and design decisions.
• Deep enterprise Linux administration experience, preferably with Red Hat-family distributions.
• Hands-on experience with automated operating system provisioning at scale.
• Production experience with a configuration management tool.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong Python and shell scripting skills.
• Working knowledge of LDAP, Kerberos, and PKI or certificate management.
• Experience building and operating containers.
• Practical Linux security experience with mandatory access control, host firewalls, and hardening baselines.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across operating system, network, and application layers.
• Clear written communication and consistent documentation practices.
• Currently hold a Top Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Automate provisioning of physical and virtual hosts from network boot through compliant configuration.
• Define and enforce system state as code to prevent configuration drift.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure code.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks with reliable, auditable tooling.
• Operate centralized directory, authentication, certificate authority, and access policy services.
• Build, secure, and operate containerized workloads.
• Manage internal software, package, and artifact distribution.
• Apply security baselines, mandatory access controls, host firewalls, and least-privilege practices.
• Troubleshoot incidents, lead root-cause analysis, and resolve underlying issues.
• Contribute to engineering standards, reviews, runbooks, and design documentation.

Skills

Security clearance

Relocation