Agile Defense
Platform DevOps Engineer
Arlington, VA$240k–$280kregularmidAdded today
About this role
Agile Defense seeks a Platform DevOps Engineer in Arlington, VA to support critical national missions through infrastructure automation and operational excellence. This role requires an active Top Secret clearance and focuses on building scalable, secure platform solutions for defense applications.
What you'll do
- Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure and containerized applications
- Automate operational workflows and deployment pipelines
- Monitor system performance, security, and reliability
- Collaborate with development and security teams on platform improvements
- Implement infrastructure-as-code practices and CI/CD processes
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues
What they're looking for
- Kubernetes or container orchestration
- CI/CD pipeline tools (Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions)
- Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible)
- Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Linux/Unix system administration
- Scripting and automation (Python, Bash, Go)
- Monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, ELK, Datadog)
- Security best practices and compliance
Benefits
- Support mission-critical national defense initiatives
- Work with elite technical team
- Security clearance sponsorship opportunity
- Opportunity to architect scalable platform solutions
Likely interview questions
- Describe your experience designing and maintaining Kubernetes clusters in production environments.
- Walk us through how you'd implement a CI/CD pipeline for a security-sensitive defense application.
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