DevOps System Administrator III — Senior

Job Overview

We’re looking for a passionate DevOps Engineer / Cloud Platform Engineer to join our team and help drive the evolution of a modern infrastructure. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on automation, scalability, and building resilient systems using the latest technologies—especially within the AWS ecosystem.

As part of our DevOps team, you’ll play a key role in transforming and operating mission-critical systems across both unclassified and classified environments, leveraging cloud-native architectures and best-in-class managed services. Responsibilities include:

• System analysis of the current system in use and developing plans for enhancements and improvements.


• Troubleshooting and resolving errors by running diagnostics, documenting problems and resolutions, prioritizing problems, and assessing impact of issues


• Managing, evaluating, and installing patches on Windows and Linux systems


• Performing cloud deployment and management


• CI/CD management and deployment


• Performance assessment, monitoring and recommending performance enhancements


• Infrastructure management for multiple disconnected networks


• Continuous testing at various stages of the development cycle


• Writing and maintaining documentation


• Helping to implement a DevOps culture

The selected candidate will be responsible for the administration, maintenance, and support of multiple servers in both unclassified and classified environments. The candidate will be responsible for implementing operating system enhancements to improve reliability, security, and performance.

Required Qualifications

• An active security clearance with polygraph.


• A minimum of 15 (15) years of experience supporting programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity within the Federal Government environment.


• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or another related technical discipline from an accredited college or university. Five (5) additional years of system administration experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.


• DoD 8570 compliance with Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level I required; IAT Level II certification desired.


• Demonstrated experience designing, deploying, and maintaining systems within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environment, including supporting cloud-based infrastructure, automation, and operational reliability.


• Strong experience administering Linux-based servers, including system patching, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and implementation of security hardening best practices.


• Experience implementing and maintaining system security measures, with a current understanding of security best practices for cloud and enterprise environments.


• Experience managing Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificates, including certificate renewal, replacement, and troubleshooting certificate-related issues.


• Experience supporting security and compliance tools, including Nessus, UAM, CYBORGBUNNY, and LATTEART.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with ElasticSearch or other distributed search/analytic engines


• Experience with Kubernetes


• Experience with ArgoCD