Senior Site Reliability Engineer – TS/SCI Clearance

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401(k) Plan

Paid Time Off

Holiday Leave

Life Insurance

Professional Development

Job summary

Navstar is an award-winning IT services provider serving national security programs. This Senior role focuses on maintaining development, testing, and production environments, deploying automation, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines while applying industry best practices for security and configuration management.

Qualified candidates have TS/SCI with Polygraph, advanced degrees or equivalent experience, and strong skills in Kubernetes, Grafana, and AWS-like cloud management.

Qualifications

• Requires TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
• Senior level: 9+ years with Bachelors, 7+ with Masters, or 4+ with PhD; may substitute experience for education.
• Experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration.
• Experience with metrics monitoring and dashboards (Grafana).
• Understanding of security controls and system administration across OS environments.
• Strong config management knowledge.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; good documentation.
• Able to work independently and in teams; willing to extend hours.

Responsibilities

• Builds and deploys automation, monitoring, and analysis solutions.
• Manages CI/CD pipeline to maximize efficiency.
• Implements best practices for system hardening and configuration management.
• Develops and maintains tools for deployment and operations platform.
• Tests system integrity and makes improvements as needed.
• Manages code deployments, fixes, updates.

Skills

Kubernetes

Grafana

Security controls

System administration

Configuration management

Software development lifecycle

Communication & documentation

Independent work

Extended hours

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS or related

Tools

Git

SVN

Jenkins

Puppet

Job description

Navstar is an award-winning IT services provider serving national security programs. This Senior role focuses on maintaining development, testing, and production environments, deploying automation, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines while applying industry best practices for security and configuration management.

Qualified candidates have TS/SCI with Polygraph, advanced degrees or equivalent experience, and strong skills in Kubernetes, Grafana, and AWS-like cloud management.