Vacancy Detail

DevOps Engineer

Role: DevOps Engineer
Location: Fairfax, VA
Clearance: Active Top Secret Clearance (Highly Qualified Uncleared Candidates Considered)
Compensation: $130,000 - $215,000 Base Salary + 50% Additional Employer-Funded Compensation

Total Package Value: Up to $322,500

Benefits

  • Employer-funded 401(k) contribution worth 25% of base salary
  • Flexible benefits allowance worth 25% of base salary (can be taken as benefits or additional compensation)
  • Up to 8 weeks PTO
  • Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
  • Life Insurance
  • 100% tuition reimbursement (Degrees, Certifications & Professional Development)
  • Flexible working hours
  • Long-term, mission-critical programs supporting the US Intelligence Community

The Opportunity

We're working with a highly respected technology organization supporting some of the most complex and security-sensitive environments in the US Government space.

Due to continued program growth, they are looking to add a DevOps Engineer to their team in either Fairfax, VA or Aurora, CO. You'll play a key role supporting application deployment, automation and cloud infrastructure initiatives, helping development teams deliver solutions faster, more reliably and at greater scale.

This position offers exposure to modern cloud-native technologies, container orchestration platforms and large-scale enterprise environments, making it an excellent opportunity for someone looking to work on cutting-edge infrastructure and deployment challenges.

 

What You'll Be Doing

  • Supporting application migration and deployment within cloud-focused environments
  • Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to improve software delivery
  • Working with container technologies and orchestration platforms
  • Developing automation solutions to eliminate manual processes
  • Supporting monitoring, observability and performance optimisation initiatives
  • Assisting engineering teams with deployment strategies and infrastructure design
  • Managing storage, backup and recovery solutions
  • Helping maximise infrastructure efficiency and platform scalability


What We're Looking For

  • Experience with container technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker or containerd
  • Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, Jenkins or similar
  • Experience with Linux environments
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
  • Experience with scripting, software development or automation engineering
  • Experience building tools and processes to automate repetitive operational tasks
  • Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities


Desirable Experience

  • Cloud-native infrastructure and architecture
  • Microservices design and deployment
  • OpenEBS, Gluster or similar storage technologies
  • Elastic or similar metrics and logging platforms
  • Agile software development environments
  • Experience supporting large-scale enterprise deployments

Clearance
Active Top Secret clearance is highly desirable, however highly qualified candidates without an active clearance will also be considered.

If this sounds of interest, apply today!

Keywords
DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, SRE, Kubernetes, Docker, Containerd, GitLab, Jenkins, CI/CD, Linux Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Automation Engineer, Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic, Microservices, Cloud Native, Platform Engineering, Top Secret Clearance, Intelligence Community, Defense, Government Contracting.


Location: Fairfax, Virginia | Salary: $130000 - $215000 per year | Job type: Permanent | Posted: 12/06/2026

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