DevOps Engineer with TS/SCI Clearance – Hybrid Role

visionist; Fort Meade (MD); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee ownership

Flexible hours

Paid time off

Health benefits

Performance bonuses

Job summary

Visionist is seeking a DevOps Engineer on a fully funded PRIME contract, requiring Active Top Secret (TS/SCI) clearance with a polygraph. The role focuses on hands-on DevOps across the lifecycle, supporting GitLab CI/CD, AWS, containerised apps, and a Kubernetes/RKE2 cluster.

Hybrid work from home 2 days/week is possible. You will modernise pipelines, build systems, and infrastructure as code, while troubleshooting issues and expanding automation ownership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline (Additional 4 years of experience may substitute degree)
• 14 years of experience in systems engineering
• Experience with Git, GitLab CI/CD, Docker, Linux, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, and Make/build automation
• Experience writing or modifying YAML-based CI/CD configurations
• Experience scripting with Bash, Python, or a similar language
• Experience with container image creation, tagging, registries, and container security concepts
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code concepts and Terraform workflows
• Experience troubleshooting technical issues independently and methodically

Responsibilities

• Maintain and modernise GitLab CI/CD environments, including configurations, runners, jobs, and pipelines
• Troubleshoot failed builds and deployments and improve pipeline reliability, efficiency, and standardisation
• Maintain and modernise build systems and automate Docker image building, tagging, scanning, and publishing
• Maintain and improve Terraform configurations used to provision AWS infrastructure
• Automate container and software dependency vulnerability identification and support remediation efforts
• Develop scripts and automation to reduce repetitive operational tasks
• Troubleshoot issues across Linux, containers, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure
• Maintain and administer Kubernetes/RKE2 development environments, including deployments, upgrades, monitoring, and troubleshooting
• Maintain Helm charts, Kubernetes manifests, configurations, and supporting automation
• Document processes, configurations, and operational procedures

Skills

GitLab CI/CD

Linux

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Make/build automation

YAML CI/CD

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline

Tools

Git

GitLab

Container tools

Job description

Visionist is seeking a DevOps Engineer on a fully funded PRIME contract, requiring Active Top Secret (TS/SCI) clearance with a polygraph. The role focuses on hands-on DevOps across the lifecycle, supporting GitLab CI/CD, AWS, containerised apps, and a Kubernetes/RKE2 cluster.

Hybrid work from home 2 days/week is possible. You will modernise pipelines, build systems, and infrastructure as code, while troubleshooting issues and expanding automation ownership.