DevOps Engineer/Principal DevOps Engineer (AHT)

Description

The company is hiring a DevOps engineer for a team that builds and scales critical platforms supporting air and space intelligence work.

The role is with the Defense Systems unit and sits at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

You will join a Platform Engineering team that works with Kubernetes, cloud, GitLab and related platform tools to build, run and grow the core infrastructure behind NASIC missions.

Candidates may be hired as a DevOps Engineer (Level 2) or a Principal DevOps Engineer (Level 3), based on education and years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Bring software development and IT operations together to make delivery faster and more efficient by putting DevOps practices in place and managing them across the organization.
• Help design, build and operate the platforms and pipelines that let mission applications ship securely and reliably.

Requirements

• Communicate clearly, solve problems, and build and keep strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Work well on a high-performing engineering team that collaborates across disciplines.
• Work in an Agile environment and adapt when priorities change.
• DevOps Engineer (Level 2): a bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline with 2+ years of relevant experience, or a master's degree with 0 years of experience.
• Principal DevOps Engineer (Level 3): a bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline with 5+ years of relevant experience, or a master's degree with 3+ years of experience.
• Hold an active Department of Defense Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearance.
• Hold an active CompTIA Security+, SecurityX, or CISSP certification.
• Have at least 3 years of experience in DevOps, software development, or systems administration.
• Preferred: experience configuring and maintaining Infrastructure as Code tools and CI/CD pipelines.
• Preferred: experience with OCI-compliant container technologies such as Podman or Docker.
• Preferred: experience managing and troubleshooting containerized workloads on Kubernetes or Docker Swarm.
• Preferred: experience with Linux and core cloud services such as virtual machines, storage and networking.
• Preferred: experience with distributed revision control systems such as Git.
• Preferred: experience scripting in Python, Bash or Go to improve platform efficiency.
• Preferred: Kubernetes certifications such as CKA, CKAD, CKS or KCSP.
• Preferred: experience configuring and administering CNCF tools such as Harbor, ArgoCD, Grafana, Prometheus and Helm.
• Preferred: experience with 'security as code', including automated vulnerability scanning and compliance-driven infrastructure such as DoD STIGs or RMF.
• Preferred: experience designing enterprise-wide automation strategies and building golden paths or developer portals that reduce cognitive load for engineering teams.
• Preferred: familiarity with Agile principles and practices.
• Preferred: experience with project and issue tracking software such as Jira and Confluence.
• Preferred: understanding of microservice architectures.

Conditions

Requisition ID: CWI2026.

A Top Secret clearance is required to start.

Travel is expected at about 10% of the time.

Relocation assistance may be available.

The application period is estimated at 20 days from the posting date, but it may be shortened or extended based on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Primary level base salary range: $83,400.00 - $125,200.00. Secondary level base salary range: $103,600.00 - $155,400.00.

The salary range is a general guideline. Base pay depends on factors such as the scope and responsibilities of the role and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Benefits

• Depending on the position, you may be eligible for overtime, shift differential and a discretionary bonus on top of base pay.
• Annual bonuses reward individual contributions and let you share in company results.
• Vice President and Director roles may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.
• Health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, company-paid holidays and paid time off for vacation and personal business.