Senior DevOps Engineer — Hybrid (TS/SCI Eligible)

Zachary Piper Solutions; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Sr. DevOps Engineer to design robust CI/CD pipelines and manage cloud migrations from on-prem VMware to AWS. This hybrid role requires onsite work 3–4 days weekly in the DC area with an active TS clearance.

The ideal candidate will lead IaC efforts using Terraform and CloudFormation, administer Nexus and Solr clusters, and ensure secure, scalable systems across hybrid environments.

Qualifications

• 13+ years of experience in Systems Engineering, DevOps, IT Operations, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related field.
• Hands-on in GitLab CI/CD pipelines, Nexus Repository Manager, and Apache Solr clusters with ZooKeeper in production.
• Strong Windows Server administration and IaC deployment automation.
• Extensive experience with AWS, including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudFormation, and Terraform.
• Experience implementing security controls across on-premises and cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines for build, test, release, and deployment across dev, staging, and production.
• Administer Nexus Repository Manager and create IaC solutions with Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
• Build and optimize Apache Solr clusters with ZooKeeper; manage Windows Server infrastructure utilities.
• Configure and manage AWS infrastructure (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3) and plan migrations from on-prem VMware to AWS.
• Monitor health and performance across hybrid environments; identify and resolve operational issues.
• Design containerization strategies for Java apps and improve platform scalability and efficiency.
• Implement security controls, hardening, and compliance across VMware and AWS in collaboration with teams.

Skills

GitLab CI/CD pipelines

Windows Server administration

Security controls & hardening

Cloud migration planning

Troubleshooting & problem-solving

Tools

Nexus Repository Manager

Apache Solr with ZooKeeper

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

AWS services (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3)

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Sr. DevOps Engineer to design robust CI/CD pipelines and manage cloud migrations from on-prem VMware to AWS. This hybrid role requires onsite work 3–4 days weekly in the DC area with an active TS clearance.

The ideal candidate will lead IaC efforts using Terraform and CloudFormation, administer Nexus and Solr clusters, and ensure secure, scalable systems across hybrid environments.