Senior DevOps Engineer

acuCyber; Charleston (SC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

acuCyber seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, automate, and sustain cloud infrastructure and secure deployment environments supporting mission applications and core services. The role blends infrastructure as code, Kubernetes deployment, and automated security testing in AWS.

Work with software teams to standardize environments and move services into scalable, reliable deployments. Charleston, SC is preferred, with NCR consideration forqualified candidates.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building and maintaining cloud infrastructure
• Experience automating deployments with IaC and configuration management
• Proficiency with Kubernetes and OpenShift in production environments
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and security tooling

Responsibilities

• Build, automate, and maintain AWS infrastructure for development, testing, and operations.
• Create repeatable deployments with Ansible and IaC to minimize drift.
• Deploy and operate containerized apps using Kubernetes and OpenShift.
• Design and manage CI/CD pipelines with automated security checks.
• Configure DevOps toolchain, registries, artifacts, and environments.
• Integrate automated security testing into delivery workflows and remediate vulnerabilities.
• Support GovCloud deployments and IL5 requirements.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for reliability and capacity planning.
• Manage platform access controls and secrets handling within deployment workflows.
• Troubleshoot Linux, networking, storage, and container orchestration issues.
• Automate patching, deployment validation, rollback, and recovery processes.
• Document configurations and procedures, assist in implementation plans and security reports.
• Evaluate tools via PoC to improve deployment speed and reliability.

Skills

IaC

Kubernetes

AWS

OpenShift

CI/CD

Ansible

Security testing

Troubleshooting

Tools

Git

Terraform

Docker

Job description

acuCyber is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to build, automate, and maintain the cloud infrastructure and secure deployment environments supporting mission applications and core services. This role combines infrastructure as code, Kubernetes deployment, and automated security testing within Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments.

The engineer will work closely with software developers to establish consistent environments and move services into reliable, scalable deployments. Candidates should understand how cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, networking, and security controls work together. We are looking for hands‑on experience designing and operating these environments, with an emphasis on automation, troubleshooting, and improving software delivery.

This role is full time on Government site. Charleston, SC preferred but highly qualified candidates in the National Capital Region (NCR) will also be considered.

What You’ll Do:

• Build, automate, and maintain AWS infrastructure supporting development, integration, testing, and operational deployments.
• Develop infrastructure as code and Ansible automation to create repeatable deployments, maintain consistent configurations, and reduce configuration drift.
• Deploy and operate containerized applications using Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift, addressing scalability, availability, networking, resource management, and persistent storage.
• Build and maintain continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines that automate software builds, testing, security checks, and deployments.
• Configure and maintain the DevOps toolchain, including container registries, artifact repositories, and environment configurations.
• Integrate automated security testing into delivery workflows and work with developers to remediate vulnerabilities and pipeline performance bottlenecks.
• Support AWS GovCloud deployments and environments subject to Department of Defense Impact Level 5 (IL5) requirements.
• Implement monitoring, centralized logging, and alerting to support troubleshooting, capacity planning, and service reliability.
• Configure platform access controls and integrate secrets management and certificate handling into deployment workflows.
• Troubleshoot issues involving Linux systems, cloud networking, permissions, storage, and container orchestration.
• Automate patching, deployment validation, rollback, and recovery procedures.
• Document pipeline configurations and operational procedures, contribute to implementation plans and security testing reports, and help developers use the delivery environment effectively.
• Evaluate tools and deployment approaches through proof‑of‑concept testing and improve deployment speed, vulnerability remediation, automated testing, and service availability.