Mission-Critical ProdOps Engineer – TS/SCI Onsite

Black Cape Inc.; Bethesda (MD); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great Benefits

401K

Competitive Salary

Generous Time Off

Team Building

Mentorship

Professional Development

Tuition Reimbursement

Parental Leave

Job summary

Black Cape is seeking a Production Operations Engineer (ProdOps) to support mission-critical cloud-based systems in a fully on-site role at Bethesda, MD. The role requires TS/SCI clearance, willingness to work 5 days/week on-site in a SCIF, and experience with AWS/OpenShift/Kubernetes alongside RMF accreditation processes.

The candidate will deploy code, maintain security patches, and ensure scalable, resilient infrastructure across multiple environments.

Qualifications

• TS/SCI clearance required with ability to obtain Privileged User Access on customer systems.
• Onsite up to 5 days a week at customer sites and able to work extended hours.
• Experience in classified environments and RMF accreditation processes.
• Experience operating systems in Linux-based environments.
• Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS, OpenShift, Kubernetes) and provisioning tools (Helm, CloudFormation).
• Strong communication and cross-team collaboration to meet mission goals.
• Active Security+ or CISSP certificate plus a technical certificate (CKAD or AWS).

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain a mission-critical cloud-based system across multiple environments.
• Monitor services globally, resolve outages, and escalate when necessary.
• Deploy latest code and security updates to cloud-based systems.
• Make configuration changes for clustered deployments and scale components as needed.
• Provide recommendations for scaling processing and storage in complex tech stacks.
• Support engineering in benchmarking components of the system.
• Positions available across all shifts to support 24/7 operations.

Skills

TS/SCI clearance

On-site

Cloud environments

Kubernetes

OpenShift

AWS

CI/CD tools

Python scripting

Bash scripting

Security+ / CISSP

RMF accreditation

Linux

collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS CloudFormation

Helm

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Job description

Black Cape is seeking a Production Operations Engineer (ProdOps) to support mission-critical cloud-based systems in a fully on-site role at Bethesda, MD. The role requires TS/SCI clearance, willingness to work 5 days/week on-site in a SCIF, and experience with AWS/OpenShift/Kubernetes alongside RMF accreditation processes.

The candidate will deploy code, maintain security patches, and ensure scalable, resilient infrastructure across multiple environments.