DevOps Engineer
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**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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