DevOps Engineer - Forward Deployed / SRE

Attis; Washington, Baltimore (District of Columbia, MD); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

National Security Technology Company is seeking a hands-on deployment engineer to own packaging, configuration, release, upgrade, and rollback for mission applications across cloud, on-premises, and secure high-side environments.

You will administer Kubernetes or OpenShift workloads, operate Linux infrastructure, build CI/CD pipelines with Helm and IaC tooling, integrate security scanning, triage findings, and help establish monitoring and on-call practices.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on Linux systems administration experience.
• Production Kubernetes or OpenShift, containers, CI/CD, and Terraform experience.
• Experience supporting mission-critical systems in accredited or regulated environments.
• U.S. citizenship with Clearance, and willingness to work onsite securely.

Responsibilities

• Own packaging, configuration, release, upgrade, and rollback for mission applications.
• Administer Kubernetes or OpenShift workloads, resources, namespaces, and tenancy.
• Operate Linux infrastructure across cloud, on-premises, and high-side environments.
• Build CI/CD, Helm, configuration-management, and Infrastructure-as-Code workflows.
• Integrate security scanning, triage findings, and remediate vulnerabilities.
• Diagnose production incidents and help establish monitoring and on-call practices.
• Maintain SSPs, architecture diagrams, and systems operating within ATO scope.

Skills

Linux administration

Kubernetes/OpenShift

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Security scanning

Incident response

Tools

Helm

Terraform

Jenkins / GitLab CI

Job description

Classified Defense Software and Edge Infrastructure

National Security Technology Company

The Company

• We are working with a secure defense software firm delivering secure software, infrastructure, and edge-compute capabilities for U.S. defense and intelligence missions
• Its engineers deploy technology directly into classified, disconnected, and operational customer environments.
• The business is scaling following major growth across mission software and tactical compute programmes.

Why Join?

• Become the founding engineer for a new deployment engineering function
• Set technical standards rather than inherit a finished operating model.
• Own systems spanning cloud, physical infrastructure, and disconnected networks.
• Solve production problems with genuine national-security consequences
• Build the platform, processes, and runbooks future engineers will follow

The Role

A technical, hands-on role where you will:

• Own packaging, configuration, release, upgrade, and rollback for mission applications
• Administer Kubernetes or OpenShift workloads, resources, namespaces, and tenancy.
• Operate Linux infrastructure across cloud, on-premises, and high-side environments
• Build CI/CD, Helm, configuration-management, and Infrastructure-as-Code workflows.
• Integrate security scanning, triage findings, and remediate vulnerabilities.
• Diagnose production incidents and help establish monitoring and on-call practices.
• Maintain SSPs, architecture diagrams, and systems operating within ATO scope.

The Essential Requirements

• U.S. citizenship with Clearance, and willingness to work onsite securely.
• 4 or more years of hands-on Linux systems administration experience.
• Production Kubernetes or OpenShift, containers, CI/CD, and Terraform experience.
• Experience supporting mission-critical systems in accredited or regulated environments.

What Will Make You Stand Out:

• ATO ownership, DoD IL5, FedRAMP, SRG, or NIST compliance exposure.
• TAK, TRAX, or comparable third-party mission-application experience.

No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of age, sex, race, religion or belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, sexual orientation, gender, and/or gender reassignment, and we confirm that we are happy to accept applications from anyone for this role.