DevOps Engineer, Sr.

Abile Group, LLC; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Abile Group, LLC is seeking a Sr. DevOps Engineer on a 10-year contract to support an Intelligence Community customer. The role involves automating deployments, building on-prem and cloud infrastructure, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines across development, test, and production environments.

The candidate will work with SAFe and Scrum teams, maintain security controls, and ensure operational readiness. US citizenship and TS/SCI with CI poly clearance are required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps or related fields.
• Strong understanding of DevOps and software development processes.
• Experience with container images and platforms (Kubernetes/Docker/OpenShift).
• Understanding of CI/CD tools (GitLab or similar).
• Experience deploying on-prem infrastructure.
• US citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Automates and optimizes service deployments.
• Architects, builds, and maintains on-prem and cloud infrastructure.
• Maintains and improves CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
• Enforces security practices and compliance across environments.
• On-call support and incident response as needed.

Skills

Kubernetes/Docker/OpenShift

DevOps

GitLab/CI tools

Python/Bash scripting

Microservice design

Networking & infra

US citizenship

Tools

GitLab

Jira/Confluence

Job description

Job Overview

Abile Group has an exciting and challenging opportunity for a DevOps Engineer, Sr. on a 10‑year contract providing user‑facing and data center services supporting an Intelligence Community customer. All team members work together to support innovative design, engineering, procurement, implementation, operations, sustainment, and disposal of user‑facing and data center information technology (IT) services on multiple networks and security domains worldwide, to support the IC mission.

Responsibilities

• Automates and optimizes service deployments.
• Integrates with enterprise authentication services.
• Establishes and improves system monitoring while maintaining established security protocols within development, test, and production systems.
• Architects, builds, and maintains on‑prem and cloud infrastructure to support team and customer initiatives.
• Maintains and improves existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies, authentication, search, etc.).
• Administers production, staging, and development environments.
• Manages and aggregates server logs and monitors for security and system‑related incidents.
• Monitors and analyzes system performance, such as server load and resource usage.
• Maintains and improves existing build and deployment processes using CI/CD tools.
• Applies configuration management disciplines to maintain software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation.
• Enforces best practices for security and reliability, and drives security initiatives, such as access control and vulnerability testing.
• Works with A&A teams to maintain security requirements for operation of systems.
• Maintains documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks.
• Follows up on engineering tasks for operational solutions and validates completion.
• Manages operational readiness board – presents at weekly meetings and determines if development services are ready for automation based on best practices and maintainability.
• Tracks and ensures routine operations maintenance tasks are completed in a timely manner.
• Participates in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings.
• On‑call support will be required.

Clearance Required

TS/SCI with ability to obtain a CI Poly.

Degree and Years of Experience

• 8+ years of experience.

Required Skills

• Experience working with container images and platforms (Kubernetes/Docker/OpenShift).
• Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes.
• Understanding of GitLab or other DevOps/Continuous Integration tools.
• Understanding of microservice design and architectural pattern best practices.
• Understanding of Python, Bash, and Shell scripting.
• Knowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design.
• Strong problem‑solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Must possess excellent time‑management skills and the drive to work unsupervised.
• Experience with deploying on‑prem infrastructure.
• US citizenship required.

Desired Skills

• Experience in building processes for deploying to a Kubernetes‑based environment using GitLab and Helm.
• Understanding of access management and security groups (e.g., IAM, S3 bucket, SSH, VPN, etc.).
• Ability to write and use unit and functional testing.
• Experience using Jira and Confluence.