DevOps Platform Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton in Arlington, VA seeks a DevSecOps Platform Engineer to accelerate delivery of secure, cloud-native government tools. You’ll design and operate CI/CD pipelines, automate infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation, and leverage Kubernetes to reduce manual toil.

The role demands hands-on development and operations, strong collaboration, and the ability to obtain DoD 8570 IAT Level II/III within 30 days.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in infrastructure, DevOps, or site reliability engineering.
• 1+ years deploying containerized applications.
• Experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) or Configuration as Code (Ansible).
• Secret clearance required.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Ability to obtain DoD 8570 IAT Level II or III within 30 days of hire.

Responsibilities

• Streamline the software development lifecycle from requirements to production monitoring.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, Jenkins, Ansible, or AWS CodeDeploy.
• Incorporate open-source tools, automation, and cloud resources to reduce manual tasks.
• Provide diagnostics via code and log analysis to improve reliability.

Skills

DevSecOps experience

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Agile

Security awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitLab CI

Jenkins

AWS CodeDeploy

CloudFormation

Terragrunt

Job description

The Opportunity

Are you looking for an opportunity to make a difference? What if you could find a position that is tailor made for your mix of development, engineering, and communication skills? Efficient software development teams make the most of their time by limiting the activities that take developers away from writing their code. That's why we need you, an experienced DevSecOps engineer, to help us shorten the time it takes to get critical tools developed and into the hands of digital citizens and mission workers who need them to drive innovation in the nation.

Job Number: R0253070 DevOps Platform Engineer

The Opportunity

Are you looking for an opportunity to make a difference? What if you could find a position that is tailor made for your mix of development, engineering, and communication skills? Efficient software development teams make the most of their time by limiting the activities that take developers away from writing their code. That's why we need you, an experienced DevSecOps engineer, to help us shorten the time it takes to get critical tools developed and into the hands of digital citizens and mission workers who need them to drive innovation in the nation.

As a DevSecOps engineer on our team, you'll use your development experience to streamline our software development lifecycle from requirements to monitoring in production. You'll incorporate open-source tools, automation, and cloud resources to cut down on tedious, boring tasks and free up the team’s developers to do what they do best, innovate. You'll implement continuous integration and delivery to limit manual testing and troubleshooting. This is an opportunity to build your experience in modern, cloud native software development. You'll work in a dynamic, large team environment supporting a large-scale government program, using next-gen tools, standards, and processes, including Kubernetes, GitLab CI, Ansible, CloudFormation, Terraform, Terragrunt, and Python. In this role, you'll design and develop DevOps pipeline to drive rapid delivery of functionality using CI/CD tools like GitLab, Jenkins, Ansible, or AWS CodeDeploy. You'll use state of the art diagnostic tools and monitoring systems to provide analysis on Web application errors, including the identification and investigation of application behavior through code and log analysis and business logic. Join us. The world can't wait.

You Have

• 2+ years of experience in an Infrastructure, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineer role
• 1+ years of experience deploying containerized applications
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with Agile methods and practices
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform, or Configuration as Code, including Ansible
• Secret clearance
• Bachelor’s degree
• Ability to obtain a DoD 8570 IAT Level II or IAT Level III Certification within 30 days of hire date

Nice If You Have

• Experience with AI, ML, and LLM implementations
• Experience with AI, ML, and LLM security such as Hidden Layer
• Experience automating, monitoring, and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters in a production environment
• Experience with GitOps tooling including Flux or Argo CD and Kustomize
• Experience implementing Cloud-Native solutions to accelerate application development
• Experience with Identity Authentication and Authorization, including Single-Sign-On, SAML, or OpenID
• Knowledge of Linux or UNIX administration and automation
• Bachelor's degree in CS, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or Engineering
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Certification or AWS Certified Developer - Associate Certification

Clearance

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Secret clearance is required.

Compensation

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen's benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page. Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract‑specific affordability