DevOps Engineers- Levels II & III (TS/SCI + Poly Clearance)

#Hiring: DevOps Engineers (Levels II & III) (AWS Infrastructure)

Location: Annapolis Junction, MD

️ Clearance: TS/SCI with Polygraph - REQUIRED

Schedule: Full-time On-site (SCIF)

Salary: $175K–$230K

About the Role

Central Texas Recruiting is seeking DevOps Engineers II & III to support a modernized, mission-critical system built on cloud-native and microservices architecture. This role focuses on building, automating, and sustaining highly available AWS infrastructure in a secure environment. Work is primarily performed on-site within a SCIF.

Key Responsibilities

Build and manage Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Python)

Automate provisioning, patching, and compliance of RHEL systems

Install, configure, and tune Kubernetes, Docker Compose, NiFi, and logging/metrics tools

Manage CI/CD pipelines using GitLab Runners and Argo CD

Support and maintain AWS cloud environments

Collaborate closely with engineering teams and mission stakeholders

Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and ensure platform reliability

Qualifications & Requirements

U.S. Citizenship Required

️ Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

9+ years of experience (or 4+ years with a related Master’s degree)

Current Security+ CE certification

Preferred Experience (any 2)

• AWS services (EC2, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, Step Functions, Athena) using Terraform

• AWS networking (VPCs, NAT, gateways)

• GitLab CI/CD pipeline development

• Kubernetes experience (EKS, ECS, Fargate)

• Infrastructure troubleshooting and performance optimization