Senior DevOps Engineer — Kubernetes, CI/CD & Security

General Atomics Intelligence; Charlottesville (VA); On-site; USD 98,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

General Atomics Integrated Intelligence, Inc. (GA-Intelligence) in Charlottesville, VA seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer with TS/SCI clearance to join our new Operations and Maintenance team.

You will manage CI/CD pipelines, harden deployments, and maintain Linux-based production environments across multiple government customers, working both independently and in a team.

Experience with Kubernetes, GitLab CI, Grafana, and Helm is highly valued; strong documentation and on-call readiness are required.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and nine years of related experience.
• Experience with deployment technologies, such as Kubernetes (K8s) for container orchestration.
• Experience with metrics monitoring and dashboards (Grafana).
• Understanding of user access practices and security controls within a system.
• Understanding of system administration in various OS environments.
• Strong knowledge of configuration management tools.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.
• Understanding of software development lifecycle best practices.
• Must be able to work both independently and in a team environment.
• Able to work on-call hours as required.

Responsibilities

• Under general direction, finds deficiencies with our product delivery lifecycle and architecture and implement industry best practices to improve them.
• Oversees and offers input over hiring of a small DevOps team to assist the operation and maintenance of our products.
• Inspects, patches, and upgrades our existing product(s) so that they can more reliably deliver to customer environments.
• Maintains development, testing, and production environments.
• Manages continuous integration and delivery pipelines to maximize efficiency.
• Implements industry best practices for system hardening and configuration management.
• Develops and maintains solutions for operational administration, system/data backup, disaster recovery, and security/performance monitoring.
• Tests system integrity, implemented designs, application developments and other processes related to infrastructure, making improvements as needed.
• Manages code deployments, fixes, updates and related processes.
• Works with CI/CD tools, and source control (git)
• Offers technical support where needed, developing software for our back-end systems.
• Stays current with industry trends and source new ways for our business to improve.

Skills

Kubernetes

Grafana

CI/CD

Git

Linux

Security practices

Documentation

SDLC

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

Helmfile

GitLab CI

AWS

Git

Job description

General Atomics Integrated Intelligence, Inc. (GA-Intelligence) in Charlottesville, VA seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer with TS/SCI clearance to join our new Operations and Maintenance team.

You will manage CI/CD pipelines, harden deployments, and maintain Linux-based production environments across multiple government customers, working both independently and in a team.

Experience with Kubernetes, GitLab CI, Grafana, and Helm is highly valued; strong documentation and on-call readiness are required.