DevOps Engineer
US$140,000 – US$230,000 / yr base salary
Posted 5 Oct 2026
Advertised as “DevOps Engineer - Level 03 - FULLY CLEARED with POLYGRAPH REQUIRED”
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- Level
- Level 03
- Expected experience
- 10+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- On-Site
| Base salary | US$140,000 – US$230,000 / yr |
|---|
Field of studyComputer Science, Engineering
Study levelBachelor's
RHEL 617/8, RHCSNRHCE CentOS, Confluence / Jira, Python, Ruby, Perl, Java**,** DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Software Defined Networking**,** deployment architecture**,** SLA requirements**,** Configuration Management, containerization, serverless technologies, Kubernetes, Gradle, Maven, ANT, Shell, Jenkins, Docker, Bamboo, Amazon Web Services, VMWare, Puppet, Chef, ansible, Memcache, Active MQ, Redis, APC, MySQL (Clusters, Replication, and Tuning), Elasticsearch, Kibana Due to federal contract requirements, United States citizenship and an active TS/SCI security clearance and polygraph are required for the position.
Required:
- Must be a US Citizen
- Must have TS/SCI clearance w/ active polygraph
- Bachelor's degree or higher is required in either Engineering (i. e. Computer, Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace, etc.) or Computer Science with a minimum of ten (10) years of related experience (excludes education experience such as Bachelor's or Master's degree in relevant field)
- Ten (10)+ years working in an Agile dev environment (excludes education experience such as Bachelor's or Master degree in relevant field)
- Must be fluent with Git
- Strong knowledge of Linux and Linux environments (RHEL 617/8, RHCSNRHCE CentOS)
- Experience with Windows system administration, system monitoring, instrumentation, resiliency and performance.
- Experience integrating Jenkins/Bamboo Docker, and Kubernetes for automated deployment preferred
- Experience with caching technologies (Memcache, Active MQ, Redis, APC, etc.)
- Experience with MySQL (Clusters, Replication, and Tuning) and Elasticsearch (Kibana a plus). Knowledge of security practices, networking protocols, firewalls, PCI compliance etc.
- Ten (10)+ years of system architecture required with a demonstrated ability to read the code and understand the coding logic to assist in troubleshooting
- Ten (10)+ years' experience managing/monitoring AWS cloud and virtualized servers for optimal performance while working in a Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment
- Familiarity with software development life cycle models, agile, and DevOps programming methodologies.
- Fluent skills in object oriented programming and experience in at least one programming language such as Ruby, C, C++, GO, Python, or Java.
- Experience acquiring in-depth understanding of large complex software systems to isolate defects, reproduce defects, assess risk, and understand varied customer deployments.
- Ability to successfully work with customers, developers, testing, project management, and support staff
- Excellent problem solving, analytical skills and technical troubleshooting skills