DevOps Engineer
US$170,000 – US$260,000 / yr base salary
Posted 13 Oct 2026
Advertised as “DevOps Engineer (6842) (Up to $25k Sign-on)”
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- Level
- 6842
- Expected experience
- 4–10 yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
| Base salary | US$170,000 – US$260,000 / yr |
|---|
As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in designing, operating, and improving shared cloud and DevOps platform services used by multiple customer mission teams. This role supports Linux-based environments, AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, and load balancing, containerized services using Docker or Podman, and CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins or GitLab. This role provides reliable, secure, and reusable platform capabilities while customer teams retain ownership of their application-specific pipelines, releases, and delivery processes.
We know that you can’t have great technology services without amazing people. At MetroStar, we are obsessed with our people and have led a two-decade legacy of building the best and brightest teams. Because we know our future relies on our deep understanding and relentless focus on our people, we live by our mission: A passion for our people. Value for our customers.
What you’ll do:
- Engineer, administer, automate, and sustain shared platform services that support multiple customer teams.
- Build, maintain, and troubleshoot shared Linux-based cloud and DevOps services used by multiple customer mission teams.
- Provision, configure, troubleshoot, and optimize AWS infrastructure and services, including EC2, S3, RDS, and Elastic Load Balancing capabilities.
- Support the operation of containerized services and workloads.
- Configure, administer, integrate, and troubleshoot CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins and/or GitLab.
- Develop and maintain automation scripts, configuration patterns, deployment procedures, and reusable technical solutions to improve platform reliability and repeatability.
- Integrate shared platform tooling with source control, artifact repositories, authentication/authorization services, security tooling, monitoring, logging, and ticketing systems as applicable.
What you’ll need to succeed:
- Active TS/SCI with CI Poly (or ability to obtain CI Poly).
- 4-10+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, platform operations, cloud infrastructure, or infrastructure engineering.
- Experience administering and troubleshooting Linux-based systems in production or mission environments.
- Experience supporting AWS infrastructure (e.g., EC2, S3, RDS, Security Groups, and Load Balancing).
- Experience building, running, troubleshooting, or supporting containerized workloads with Docker and/or Podman.
- Experience with building CI/CD pipelines from scratch with Gitlab and/or Jenkins.