DevOps Systems Engineer (TS/SCI) - Hybrid CA

Piper Companies; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Certification reimbursement

Long-term funded program

PTO

Paid holidays

Medical

Dental

Vision

401k

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a DevOps System Engineer to support a U.S. Air Force program in Rancho Bernardo, CA. Hybrid work with 2x/week onsite; role focuses on sustainment, CI/CD, and cloud migration for a critical application.

Required active Secret clearance (Top Secret preferred), 5+ years of related system engineering experience, and hands-on with AWS, Kubernetes, Ansible, and CI/CD tools. Beneficial certifications and DoD‑friendly environment experience.

Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance; Top Secret preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university with 5+ years related system engineering experience.
• IAT II certifications such as CySA+, Security+, CCNA-Security, GSEC, SSCP are required or preferred.
• Experience with AWS, cloud services, and air-gapped environments.
• Experience supporting Agile development environments.
• Experience with containerization and automation using Kubernetes and Ansible.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools including Jenkins and Bitbucket.
• Experience with monitoring tools like SonarQube and Fortify.
• Experience maintaining RHEL/Linux infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain secure, scalable on-premises infrastructure.
• Collaborate with teams to support application and infrastructure requirements.
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines to automate software delivery.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, and monitoring for legacy apps.
• Monitor performance, resolve issues, and improve reliability.
• Implement DevSecOps security controls and best practices.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, and deployment incidents.
• Administer and maintain Linux/Windows servers.
• Evaluate and adopt new technologies to enhance operations.

Skills

Active Secret clearance

Top Secret preferred

Cloud/AWS

Agile development

CI/CD pipelines

Containerization

Kubernetes

Ansible

Jenkins

Bitbucket

Monitoring (SonarQube/Fortify)

RHEL/Linux

IAT II certifications (CySA+, Security

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Jenkins

Bitbucket

Kubernetes

Ansible

SonarQube

Fortify

RHEL/Linux

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a DevOps System Engineer to support a U.S. Air Force program in Rancho Bernardo, CA. Hybrid work with 2x/week onsite; role focuses on sustainment, CI/CD, and cloud migration for a critical application.

Required active Secret clearance (Top Secret preferred), 5+ years of related system engineering experience, and hands-on with AWS, Kubernetes, Ansible, and CI/CD tools. Beneficial certifications and DoD‑friendly environment experience.