Senior DevOps Engineer – Onsite (Classified Gov Contract)

Socket.dev

Fort Belvoir (VA)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

PTO

10 Federal Holidays

401(k) with company matching

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Paid parental leave

Paid military leave

Job summary

Venatôre is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to support a three-year government contract. This full-time, onsite role lives in a SCIF environment and demands expertise bridging development and operations, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and secure software delivery practices.

The ideal candidate will strengthen pipelines, observability, and configuration management across OpenShift, Kubernetes, AWS, and enterprise systems, ensuring resilient, scalable deployments in classified environments.

Qualifications

Minimum of six years of directly related professional experience.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field; two additional years of information technology experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.
Demonstrated experience designing and implementing complex systems, including experience in classified environments.
Proficiency with Linux operating systems.
Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar technologies.
Knowledge of OpenID Connect (OIDC), OAuth, OAuth 2.0, or comparable zero-trust identity implementations.
Experience with ArgoCD and GitOps-based operations management.
Experience with web server and infrastructure management, including DNS and certificate management.

Responsibilities

Configure, maintain, and enhance CI/CD pipelines supporting multiple web applications.
Deploy applications and services across development, staging, and operational environments.
Support GitOps-based deployment and operations using ArgoCD or similar technologies.
Develop and maintain Helm charts for deploying resources to OpenShift and Kubernetes environments.
Improve deployment consistency, repeatability, reliability, and recoverability across environments.
Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code and configuration management solutions.
Research, design, develop, and modify enterprise-wide cloud solutions and application environments.
Manage web application infrastructure, including TCP/IP, DNS, certificates, load balancing, and related services.
Design, develop, code, test, and debug highly complex software products and significant enhancements to existing systems.
Apply advanced engineering methods, theories, and research techniques to solve complex software and systems challenges.
Contribute code updates and enhancements to existing repositories.
Develop system and application architecture diagrams for new and existing solutions.