Sr. Principal DevOps Engineer (AHT)
$142,200–$213,400 year
On-siteAurora, Colorado, United States
Job Summary
Own and evolve GitLab CI/CD pipelines for multiple services, architecting robust workflows for build, test, security, and deployment. Design Docker image build processes, optimize containerized runtime environments, and enforce branching strategies and merge request practices. Integrate quality gates including unit tests, integration tests, and security scanning into pipelines while implementing configuration-as-code for deployment workflows. Monitor pipeline performance, identify bottlenecks, and drive continuous improvement across the delivery platform. Mentor engineers on DevOps practices and collaborate with development, QA, and operations teams to ensure safe, repeatable releases. This position is based in Aurora, CO and requires a Top Secret security clearance.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of relevant experience
- Master's degree with 6+ years of relevant experience
- 4 additional years of experience in lieu of a degree
- Active U.S. Government Top Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with the ability to obtain and maintain SCI approval/access
- Experience as a DevOps Engineer (or similar), including demonstrated senior-level responsibilities
- Hands-on experience with GitLab and GitLab CI (pipeline YAML, runners, environments, variables)
- Experience with Docker (image builds, runtime configuration, registries, best practices)
- Solid understanding of source control and release management (branching, tagging, versioning, hotfix flows)
- Strong scripting/automation skills (e.g., Bash, Python, or similar)
- Experience working in Linux environments
- Familiarity with Agile ways of working and collaborating via tools like Jira/Confluence
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate and influence technical direction
- Demonstrated team player mindset and experience mentoring other engineers
- Relocation assistance may be available
- Clearance required for start: Yes
- Clearance type: Top Secret
- Travel: Yes, 10% of the Time
- U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelors' STEM degree is highly preferred
- Experience deploying and managing applications on Docker Swarm or similar orchestration platforms
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Ansible
- Experience integrating Cucumber (or other BDD frameworks) into CI/CD pipelines
- Experience implementing security and compliance checks in CI/CD (SAST/DAST, dependency scanning, container scanning)
- Knowledge of observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK) and release monitoring
- Background in pipeline optimization (parallelization, caching, artifact management, cost/performance tuning)
- Experience building and deploying applications in Rust and/or C++, including integrating Cargo or CMake workflows into GitLab CI
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