Platform DevOps Engineer / Principal Platform DevOps Engineer (AHT)

Description

The company's defense systems business is hiring a DevOps engineer for the National Air and Space Intelligence Center at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.

You will join a Platform Engineering team that builds, runs and grows the core infrastructure, with a focus on Kubernetes, cloud services, GitLab and related platform tools.

The role merges software development with IT operations to make delivery leaner, and you will help put the DevOps approach into practice across the organization.

You need to communicate clearly, solve problems and build lasting working relationships with stakeholders both inside and outside the team.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and scale the foundational platform infrastructure.
• Bring development and operations work together so the delivery process becomes more streamlined and efficient.
• Partner with stakeholders both inside and outside the team.

Requirements

• DevOps Engineer: hold a current Top Secret clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Information access from the Department of Defense.
• DevOps Engineer: hold an active CompTIA Security+, SecurityX or CISSP certification.
• DevOps Engineer: hold either a STEM bachelor's degree with 2 years of experience, or a STEM master's degree with 0 years of experience.
• DevOps Engineer: have at least 2 years of experience in DevOps, software development or systems administration.
• DevOps Engineer: have configured and maintained Infrastructure as Code tools and CI/CD pipelines.
• DevOps Engineer: have worked with OCI-compliant container technology such as Podman or Docker.
• DevOps Engineer: have managed and troubleshot containerized workloads on Kubernetes or Docker Swarm.
• DevOps Engineer: have worked with Linux and understand core cloud services, including virtual machines, storage and networking.
• DevOps Engineer: have used distributed revision control systems such as Git.
• DevOps Engineer: can script in Python, Bash and Go to make the platform more efficient.
• Principal DevOps Engineer: the same clearance, certification, experience and technical requirements apply as for the DevOps Engineer level.
• Principal DevOps Engineer: hold either a STEM bachelor's degree with 5 years of experience, or a STEM master's degree with 3 years of experience.
• 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 building security as code, including automated vulnerability scanning and compliance-driven infrastructure under DoD STIGs and RMF.
• Preferred: experience designing enterprise-wide automation strategies and setting up golden paths and developer portals that reduce cognitive load for engineering teams.
• Preferred: experience working in Agile environments, or working knowledge of Agile principles and practices.
• Preferred: experience with project and issue tracking tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Preferred: a clear understanding of microservice architectures.

Conditions

A Top Secret clearance is required to start.

Travel is about 10% of the time.

The role is based at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.

Relocation assistance may be available.

Primary level base pay runs from $83,400.00 to $125,200.00, and secondary level base pay runs from $103,600.00 to $155,400.00.

Pay is a general guideline, and the company weighs scope, responsibilities, experience, education, skills and market conditions when making an offer.

Applications are expected to stay open about 20 days from the posting date, though this may be shortened or extended based on business needs and candidate availability.

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, and a savings plan.
• Company paid holidays and paid time off for vacation or personal business.