DevOps Engineer - 2 (AWS Infrastructure)

Cleared Staffing Solutions; Maryland; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Cleared Staffing Solutions in Annapolis Junction, MD is seeking a DevOps Engineer to build and maintain a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates microservices for a modernized operational system.

The role requires an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph, a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, and hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines. The position involves working in an SCIF with limited remote work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a related discipline.
• Active Top Secret clearance with polygraph is required.
• Current Security+CE certificate is required.

Responsibilities

• Developing Infrastructure As Code and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools.
• Patch, harden, and maintain compliance of RHEL.
• Install, configure, and tune Kubernetes, Docker Compose, Nifi, and cloud native logging and metrics.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines using GitLab runners and Argo CD.
• Manage AWS cloud infrastructure and services.

Education

Bachelor's degree in related discipline

Tools

Terraform

AWS

GitLab CI/CD

Argo CD

Kubernetes

Job description

Annapolis Junction, United States | Posted on 01/12/2026

Veteran owned staffing agency placing TS/SCI Poly TS/SCI, Top Secret and Secret Cleared Professionals

Job Description

TS/SCI - Polygraph required

09-8763-DevOps

The Work:

Provide a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates the microservices of a modernized operational system utilizing cutting edge technologies. The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for:

• Developing Infrastructure As Code and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools. Popular programming languages for DevOps engineers include Python, Ansible, and Terraform.
• Experience patching, hardening, and maintaining compliance of RHEL
• Install, configure, and provide performance tuning utilizing: Kubernetes, Docker Compose, Nifi, and cloud native logging and metrics collection tools.
• Managing CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing, and deploying code utilizing GitLab runners and Argo CD.
• Managing commercial cloud computing platforms (AWS).
• Communication and collaboration: DevOps is a team-oriented discipline. Engineers need to be able to communicate and collaborate effectively with other team members, as well as with stakeholders.
• The position allows little to no work from home and will require a significant portion or all work to be performed in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF).

Basic Qualifications :

Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education

• 9 years or more of professional experience; or 4years of professional experience with a related Masters degree.
• An active Top Secret clearance with polygraph.
• Current Security+CE certificate.

Requirements

Desired skills (2 of the below):

• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure including but not limited to EC2, Lambdas, S3, SNS, SQS, Event Router, Athena, Step Functions using Terraform and auto scaling.
• Understanding of AWS networking principles to include VPCs, NATs, IP Gateway.
• Develop and manage Gitlab CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment processes
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance and reliability.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and ensure system uptime
• Kubernetes experience with a focus on EKS, ECS, and/or Fargate