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

Navstar Inc.; Chantilly (NC); On-site; USD 100,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

FSA options

Paid time off

STD/LTD coverage

Life insurance

401K with match

Referral programs

Professional development

Job summary

Navstar Inc. is a growing IT services provider supporting national security programs. The role focuses on improving delivery lifecycle, overseeing a DevOps team, and maintaining secure, scalable product environments.

You will manage CI/CD pipelines, implement configuration management, and ensure robust security and performance monitoring across development, testing, and production environments. Strong collaboration and on-call readiness are essential.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph required.
• Experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration.
• Experience with Grafana for metrics monitoring and dashboards.
• Strong knowledge of configuration management tools.
• System administration across OS environments.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Ability to work independently and in a team; on-call hours may be required.

Responsibilities

• Identify deficiencies in the product delivery lifecycle and implement best practices.
• Oversee hiring input for a small DevOps team.
• Patch and upgrade existing products for reliability.
• Maintain development, testing, and production environments.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines for efficiency.
• Deploy code and manage related processes; support back-end software.
• Stay current with trends and source improvements.

Skills

TS/SCI clearance

Communication

SDLC knowledge

Teamwork

On-call readiness

Tools

Kubernetes

Grafana

GitLab CI

Helm

Git

GitOps

AWS

Job description

Navstar Inc. is a growing IT services provider supporting national security programs. The role focuses on improving delivery lifecycle, overseeing a DevOps team, and maintaining secure, scalable product environments.

You will manage CI/CD pipelines, implement configuration management, and ensure robust security and performance monitoring across development, testing, and production environments. Strong collaboration and on-call readiness are essential.