DevOps Engineer (TS/SCI with Polygraph)
Evans & Chambers Technology · Chantilly, VA · 4 mo ago
EngineeringFull-time
What You’ll Do
- Engineering & Automation
- Lead and contribute to software programming initiatives supporting system modernization and innovation
- Design, prototype, and deploy secure cloud-native solutions in commercial cloud environments
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions to automate provisioning and deployment
- Develop scripts and tooling to automate infrastructure and application delivery workflows
- Support containerization initiatives and transition toward modern container-based architectures
- DevOps & CI/CD
- Establish, optimize, and maintain CI/CD pipelines
- Improve existing DevOps processes and toolchains to increase velocity and reliability
- Deploy build artifacts across multiple environments using GitFlow constructs
- Administer and optimize DevOps tooling (Jenkins, GitHub, Rundeck, Nexus)
- Cloud & Infrastructure
- Implement and manage AWS services (CloudFormation, EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, etc.)
- Perform Linux system administration and privileged access duties
- Support container orchestration and scaling in production (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS/ECS)
- Ensure container registry security and DevSecOps best practices
- Collaboration & Delivery
- Partner with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and development teams to ensure user story alignment
- Contribute to scope definition, estimation, architecture, and unit testing
- Communicate technical insights clearly to both engineering and leadership stakeholders
- Strengthen team cohesion and execution discipline across the program
- Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
- BA/BS degree with 11–15 years of relevant experience (or equivalent experience)
- Expert-level Linux systems knowledge
- Advanced experience with:
- Jenkins
- GitHub
- Rundeck
- Nexus
- Deep understanding of the full software development lifecycle in a DevOps environment
- Experience with Agile methodologies and development tempo
- Proficiency with:
- Bash
- Puppet
- YAML
- JSON
- Strong AWS experience including CloudFormation, EC2, S3, RDS, and VPC
- Experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, ECS)
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in production
- Experience with version control and issue tracking systems (JIRA, Confluence)
- Experience using automated testing tools (e.g., JUnit)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with Elastic stack tools
- Experience working in classified cloud environments
- Experience supporting formal release management processes
- AWS Certification
- Container or Kubernetes certifications
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
- We build secure, scalable systems that support national security missions
- We operate where compliance, performance, and reliability matter — and where engineering excellence is non-negotiable
- We value ownership over tickets, engineering rigor over shortcuts, mission success over ego, and continuous modernization over status quo maintenance