Staff DevOps Engineer
$177,000–$265,600 year
On-siteAurora, Colorado, United States or Fairfax, Virginia, United States
Job Summary
Operate and maintain existing GitLab CI/CD, Nexus, Apache NiFi, and on-premises Kubernetes clusters, focusing on patching, configuration, and routine health checks. Perform incident response and problem resolution for build, deployment, and runtime issues while applying security and compliance controls across the toolchain. Implement incremental improvements to existing workflows and tooling consistent with established architectures and senior engineer directives. Work a 9/80 schedule with every other Friday off, requiring SCI clearance and a Top-Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information clearance at start.
Required Qualifications
- Relocation assistance may be available
- SCI clearance
- 10% of the Time travel
- Bachelor's in STEM degree with 12 years of professional experience
- Master's in STEM degree with 10 years of professional experience
- PhD with 7 years of experience
- Additional 4+ years of experience in lieu of degree
- Active Top-Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance at time of application
- Ability to obtain and maintain U.S. Government Full Scope Polygraph
- Relevant DevOps, site reliability, or systems engineering experience
- Demonstrated experience maintaining GitLab CI/CD in an on-prem environment
- Practical experience administering Nexus repositories
- Experience supporting Apache NiFi infrastructure
- Working knowledge of on-prem Kubernetes operations
- Experience using Grafana and Prometheus in an on-prem context
- Proficiency with Linux systems administration fundamentals and at least one scripting language (e.g., Bash, Python) for automation and operational tasks
- Familiarity with operating in secure, classified, or highly regulated on-prem environments and adherence to associated processes (security, configuration control, and auditing)
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Ability to methodically diagnose issues across multiple interconnected services
- U.S. Citizenship
Desired Qualifications
- Experience using Helm and Rancher
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) for maintaining existing on-prem infrastructure definitions and playbooks
- Experience with log aggregation and analysis platforms in on-prem environments (e.g., ELK/EFK or similar)
- Experience working within formal change control and release management processes
- Exposure to microservices running on Kubernetes and related operational patterns (service discovery, scaling, health checks)
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