Systems Engineer – DevOps Support

Que Technology Group; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company-paid health plans

Annual professional development fund

10+ vacation days per year (25 days as

401K with company match

Referral bonus program

Job summary

Que Technology Group, Inc. seeks a Systems Engineer to support DevOps activities for the Zero Trust Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ZT ICAM) program for DoD customers.

You will assist with automated builds, deployments, monitoring, and documentation in Linux/container environments, focusing on Kubernetes and repeatable configurations. This full-time role is at a Government/contractor facility in Fort Meade, MD.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or a related discipline plus 7 years of SE experience (12 years total if degree substituted).
• Foundational DevOps knowledge and some practical experience with Kubernetes.
• Able to adapt quickly, self-motivated, organized, and able to multitask.

Responsibilities

• Support continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, automated builds, testing, artifact packaging, and release activities.
• Assist with deployment and sustainment of containerized applications in Kubernetes environments under guidance of senior engineers.
• Maintain configuration files, scripts, deployment manifests, repositories, and version-controlled engineering artifacts.
• Help configure and troubleshoot workloads, services, namespaces, ConfigMaps, Secrets, storage, networking, and access controls.
• Monitor pipeline and deployment results, review logs and system health information, document issues, and support corrective actions.
• Assist with container and dependency scanning, vulnerability remediation tracking, software bills of materials, and release evidence.
• Support DISA and other DoD customer deployment activities by collecting environment information, executing documented procedures, and escalating technical issues.
• Develop and maintain setup instructions, deployment checklists, troubleshooting notes, release documentation, and other technical guides.

Skills

DevOps fundamentals

Kubernetes basics

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

RKE2

Rancher

Helm

Kustomize

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Que Technology Group, Inc. is seeking a Systems Engineer to support DevOps activities for the Zero Trust Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ZT ICAM) program and deployments for DoD customers.

Working under the direction of senior engineers, you will assist with automated build, test, packaging, deployment, monitoring, and release activities; support Linux and containerized environments; and help maintain repeatable deployment configurations and technical documentation. The position requires foundational DevOps knowledge and some practical experience with Kubernetes, with an interest in expanding those skills while supporting an integrated enterprise solution across varied customer environments. This is a full-time position (40 hours/week, normal day shift) at a Government or contractor facility in the Fort Meade, MD area, in a fast-paced environment where multiple applications are developed and deployed simultaneously.

Job Responsibilities

• Support continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, automated builds, testing, artifact packaging, and release activities
• Assist with deployment and sustainment of containerized applications in Kubernetes environments under the guidance of senior engineers
• Maintain configuration files, scripts, deployment manifests, repositories, and version-controlled engineering artifacts
• Help configure and troubleshoot workloads, services, namespaces, ConfigMaps, Secrets, storage, networking, and access controls
• Monitor pipeline and deployment results, review logs and system health information, document issues, and support corrective actions
• Assist with container and dependency scanning, vulnerability remediation tracking, software bills of materials, and release evidence
• Support DISA and other DoW customer deployment activities by collecting environment information, executing documented procedures, and escalating technical issues
• Develop and maintain setup instructions, deployment checklists, troubleshooting notes, release documentation, and other technical guides

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus 7 years of System Engineering experience in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity. An additional 5 years of SE experience may be substituted for the degree (12 years total).
• Foundational DevOps knowledge and some practical experience with Kubernetes
• Able to adapt quickly to change and react to unexpected results; self-motivated, organized, and able to multitask

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with RKE2, Rancher, Helm, Kustomize, Kubernetes package configuration, or single- and multi-namespace deployments
• Familiarity with Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Ansible, Terraform, or comparable automation and infrastructure tools
• Exposure to security scanning, vulnerability management, software bills of materials, artifact signing, container registries, or software supply chain practices
• Familiarity with REST APIs, JSON, PKI, mutual TLS, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, or enterprise identity and access management concepts
• Experience supporting classified, disconnected, air-gapped, or otherwise restricted customer environments
• Experience using Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Word, SharePoint, or Git-based repositories to manage work and technical documentation

Security Clearance

• Active Top Secret clearance with a Polygraph
• Company Medical/Dental/Vision plans - Company paid
• Short-term Disability, Long-term disability and Life Insurance - Company paid
• Business/ First Class travel upgrade for 7 hour or longer flights & company card will be provided for expenses
• Vacation / Personal days granted at 25 days per year
• $5,000 Annual Professional Development Fund plus 40 paid hours if in class
• 401K with 6% company match; all contributions are immediately vested by Employee
• Employee will be paid a bonus of $10,000 per employee hired based on their referral
• Up to 3 paid Code Red days due to customer closure

Que Technology Group, Inc., is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.