DevOps Engineer: Azure, Kubernetes & CI/CD Specialist

SAIC; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

SAIC in Arlington, VA seeks a DevOps Engineer to join our team onsite at a customer location. The role emphasizes building internal DevOps tools, platforms, and automated pipelines using Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and Python.

You will work in trunk-based GitLab workflows with SBOM, security scans, and IaC discipline; TS clearance required; three onsite days per week; strong scripting and Linux expertise expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 5 years of experience, or equivalent.
• Go-based CLI tools and API integrations to automate cloud infrastructure provisioning.
• Strong background deploying and managing cloud resources (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, etc).
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience with tools such as Terraform.
• Scripting language such as PowerShell or Python for pipeline and OS task automation.
• Proficient with Linux command line and shell scripting (Bash).
• Familiarity with Microsoft enterprise environments (Active Directory, Entra ID, DNS).
• Configuration management experience using tools such as Ansible, Puppet, and Chef.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience using Docker containers.

Responsibilities

• Build internal DevOps tools, CLI utilities, and automation scripts.
• Platform Engineer building and running our internal developer platform (Azure, CI/CD, Kubernetes, pipelines and automation).
• GitLab for source control and pipelines; Terraform and Ansible as the primary automation language; Python for helpers/tests; Helm for Kubernetes deployments.
• Microsoft Azure Stack Hub and Hyper-V sidecar.
• Trunk-based GitLab workflows, deterministic pipelines with built-in testing and security scans.
• Checksum/signature/SBOM-driven movement of artifacts, mirroring via reposync and Pulp, offline scanning and promotion for high-side environments.
• Secret hygiene by default, secrets management familiarity, and comfort with vulnerability/misconfig scanning in CI (SAST, IaC, secret detection, Semgrep/KICS, Trivy/pip-audit).

Skills

Go CLI tools

CI/CD pipelines

Linux command line

Scripting (PowerShell/Python)

Active TS clearance

Strong documentation habits

Education

Bachelor's degree + 5 years experience

Tools

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

GitLab

Kubernetes

Helm

Python

Bash

Docker

Job description

SAIC in Arlington, VA seeks a DevOps Engineer to join our team onsite at a customer location. The role emphasizes building internal DevOps tools, platforms, and automated pipelines using Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and Python.

You will work in trunk-based GitLab workflows with SBOM, security scans, and IaC discipline; TS clearance required; three onsite days per week; strong scripting and Linux expertise expected.