DevOps Engineer II

Job Overview

Join ClearEdge and be part of a mission-focused team solving some of the DoD’s most complex technical challenges. Every day, ClearEdge supports government and industry customers by delivering innovative solutions that enable critical operations and mission success.

Key Responsibilities

Your Mission: Join ClearEdge as a DevOps Engineer, where you will build, package, promote, and operate the infrastructure behind one of our core AI-enabled products including CI/CD, containers, hardening, and both hybrid (on-prem/cloud) and air-gapped deployment paths, supporting AI services and application platforms built with tech like Postgres, RAG, and vector stores. Delivery is AI-assisted, and you own the pipelines, automation, and outcomes.

You will support and enhance a containerized application stack, deploying and operating identity/RBAC, audit logging, encryption, and observability in production, and automating complex processes with both deterministic and non-deterministic tools.

Required Qualifications

You Will Excel in This Role If You Are:

• Experienced with Infrastructure-as-Code practices and tooling
• Skilled in containerized and orchestrated deployments, and comfortable in Linux environments
• Fluent with AI-native IDEs and comfortable using them as your default way of working
• Strong in version control habits
• Comfortable working in hybrid (on-prem/cloud) and air-gapped environments
• Familiar with deploying and operating apps in the TypeScript/Python/React ecosystem
• Capable of automating deployment and configuration management processes, using both deterministic scripting and AI-assisted/agentic tools
• Experienced troubleshooting deployment and infrastructure issues
• Comfortable scripting in Python or TypeScript, with tech like Postgres, RAG, and vector stores

A Day in the Life:

• Design, implement, and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code solutions
• Automate configuration management and deployment processes
• Deploy and manage containerized applications within orchestration environments
• Support secure system builds and hardened infrastructure baselines
• Deploy and operate identity/RBAC, audit logging, encryption, and observability in production systems
• Collaborate with system administrators, engineers, and security teams
• Troubleshoot deployment, orchestration, and infrastructure issues
• Support documentation and security accreditation activities
• Support development efforts in Python or TypeScript as needed

What We Are Expecting From You:

• Active TS/SCI with Poly clearance; U.S. citizenship
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field (4 years of experience may substitute)
• 2–5 years of experience as a DevOps or Software Engineer
• Fluency with AI-native IDEs
• Strong version control habits
• Practical depth in hybrid deployment (on-prem and cloud), including air-gapped deployment, containers, Linux, and CI/CD
• Experience with layered systems and how apps get deployed — language secondary; scripting/automation often in Python or TypeScript, using tech like Postgres, RAG, and vector stores
• Familiarity with deploying/operating apps in the TypeScript/Python/React ecosystem
• Understands how to deploy and operate identity/RBAC, audit logging, encryption, and observability in production systems
• Implements pipelines and promotion paths; debugs and remediates with tools and automation
• Understands how to automate complex processes with deterministic and non-deterministic tools
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and/or Packer

Nice to Have:

• Systems administration background or SSP accreditation experience
• Infrastructure as Code experience at production scale
• Production observability stack experience
• Experience supporting RMF/ATO (hardening baselines)

Benefits

ClearEdge offers an extremely competitive benefits package—including a $10k annual training and education benefit, a 10% 401(k) contribution fully vested on day one, annual health and technology allowances, and access to a state-of-the-art technology lab.