Senior DevOps Engineer – Kubernetes, CI/CD & Security

Search Results; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401K plan

PTO and holiday leave

Professional development

Job summary

Navstar, an award-winning IT services provider, seeks a Senior DevOps with active TS/SCI clearance to optimize the product delivery lifecycle and oversee a DevOps team. You will patch, upgrade, and harden systems, maintain multiple environments, and drive CI/CD efficiency.

Strong Kubernetes and Grafana skills, plus DoD experience, are essential. The role requires independent work, on-call availability, and a track record of secure system administration across OS environments.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph is required.
• Senior level: typically a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree and 9 years of related experience.
• Experience with deployment technologies, such as Kubernetes.
• Experience with metrics monitoring and dashboards (Grafana).
• Understanding of access controls, OS administration, and configuration management.

Responsibilities

• Finds deficiencies in delivery lifecycle and architecture; implements best practices.
• Oversees and inputs hiring for a DevOps team for operations.
• Patches and upgrades existing products for reliability.
• Maintains development, testing, and production environments.
• Manages CI/CD pipelines to maximize efficiency.
• Implements system hardening and configuration management practices.
• Develops operations solutions including backups, DR, and monitoring.
• Tests integrity of systems and improvements; manages deployments.

Skills

Kubernetes

Grafana

Security practices

OS administration

CI/CD

Git

Documentation

On-call readiness

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

GitLab CI

Helm

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Navstar, an award-winning IT services provider, seeks a Senior DevOps with active TS/SCI clearance to optimize the product delivery lifecycle and oversee a DevOps team. You will patch, upgrade, and harden systems, maintain multiple environments, and drive CI/CD efficiency.

Strong Kubernetes and Grafana skills, plus DoD experience, are essential. The role requires independent work, on-call availability, and a track record of secure system administration across OS environments.