DevOps Engineer - TS/SCI | Kubernetes & CI/CD

Sunayu Llc; Bethesda, Northern (MD, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training and Educational Assistance

401k match (up to 6% )

Paid Time Off

Health plan options

Job summary

Sunayu, LLC is hiring a DevOps Software Engineer in Bethesda, MD. The role focuses on designing, deploying, and maintaining a full-stack, containerized microservices architecture with a strong emphasis on DevOps best practices.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams including systems engineering, development, security and operations. You will work on a production big data pipeline using Kubernetes, Elasticsearch and Kafka, improve CI/CD pipelines, and help mature infrastructure across

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience with 8+ years in relevant field; 6+ years with Master.
• Active TS/SCI clearance with ability to obtain/maintain TS/SCI with Polygraph.
• DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level II or higher certification (e.g., CCNA Security, CySA+, Security+ CE, SSCP, CISSP).
• Ability to obtain Privileged User Account (PUA) under DoD 8570 policy.
• Strong Linux proficiency with K8s, sysctls, FApolicyd.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, triage and maintain a production big data pipeline built on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, and Kafka.
• Enhance and maintain CI/CD pipelines and DevOps automation.
• Design and support scalable, redundant infrastructure across physical and virtual environments.
• Use Helm to configure Kubernetes deployments for new features and evolving requirements.
• Partner with Systems Engineers to architect new capabilities.
• Contribute to engineering docs, diagrams, and models.
• Participate in Agile release planning, scrums, and bug triage.

Skills

Team collaboration

Linux proficiency

Scripting (Python, Bash)

Security clearance TS/SCI

DoD 8570 IAT II

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Elasticsearch

Kafka

Helm

ArgoCD

GitLab CI/CD

Prometheus

Grafana

SELinux

Job description

Sunayu, LLC is hiring a DevOps Software Engineer in Bethesda, MD. The role focuses on designing, deploying, and maintaining a full-stack, containerized microservices architecture with a strong emphasis on DevOps best practices.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams including systems engineering, development, security and operations. You will work on a production big data pipeline using Kubernetes, Elasticsearch and Kafka, improve CI/CD pipelines, and help mature infrastructure across