Top Secret-Cleared DevOps Platform Engineer

Footbridge Federal; Town of Florida, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & retirement

PTO & leave

Professional development

Job summary

Footbridge Federal is seeking a DevOps/Platform Engineer with an active Top Secret clearance to design and run secure, scalable infrastructure. You will manage containers, automate deployments, and collaborate with cybersecurity and development teams to ensure trusted software delivery.

The role emphasizes building repeatable pipelines, implementing IaC, and maintaining system health and security across complex environments.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain SCI.
• Professional experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, or platform engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Solid understanding of Linux operating systems, enterprise networking, and storage solutions.
• Proven ability to build, maintain, and troubleshoot automated CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Manage container orchestration platforms alongside compute, network, and storage resources.
• Design, build, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for software builds, testing, and deployments.
• Implement infrastructure automation and configuration management practices to enable repeatable deployments.
• Monitor platform health, performance, and security posture using modern observability tools.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex integration, deployment, and infrastructure issues.
• Partner with software developers, system administrators, and cybersecurity teams to ensure secure software delivery.

Skills

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Linux

Networking & storage

Observability

Security clearance

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Splunk

Job description

Footbridge Federal is seeking a DevOps/Platform Engineer with an active Top Secret clearance to design and run secure, scalable infrastructure. You will manage containers, automate deployments, and collaborate with cybersecurity and development teams to ensure trusted software delivery.

The role emphasizes building repeatable pipelines, implementing IaC, and maintaining system health and security across complex environments.