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Lead DevOps Engineer

san diego, CA

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STR lists this Lead DevOps Engineer opportunity in san diego, California. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.

Job description

Overview

Information processing and sense‑making systems support national security efforts by delivering reliable, accessible, and sophisticated analytics. STR’s Analytics and Command & Control (AC2) Division develops actionable technology to provide advantages in the information domain. The Mission Applications (MA) Group within AC2 delivers impact through specialized application and deployment of STR technology and focuses on transitioning technology to operational use, including product management, UX product implementation, software integration and mission engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, and program management.

Responsibilities

As a DevOps Engineer in the Mission Applications Group, lead software teams to design, develop, and maintain infrastructure and tooling to deploy software in operational use.

Manage relationships with customer environments while guiding engineering teams to meet high standards of quality, reliability, and performance.

Collaborate in tightly knit Agile software teams to design and implement Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for various deployment environments.

Support cloud toolsets (e.g., AWS) in unclassified environments.

Configure and maintain multiple CI/CD environments at different classification levels, focusing on developer productivity, application performance, security monitoring, and alerting.

Liaise with corporate IT to ensure infrastructure toolsets are configured, reliable, and in compliance with DoD standards.

Coach team members on DevOps best practices while continuously helping improve processes.

Qualifications

Must be a U.S. citizen.

Active U.S. Security Clearance with SCI eligibility.

B.S. in Computer Science or related field with at least 5 years of work experience.

Experience with CI/CD tools (GitLab) and pipeline automation.

Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and automated provisioning tools (Ansible or Chef).

Containerization technologies (Docker, Podman).

Kubernetes management solutions (e.g., EKS, Rancher).

Experience deploying and monitoring Kubernetes clusters and pod configurations.

Basic knowledge of Linux system administration; Python and Linux shell scripting.

Knowledge of cybersecurity fundamentals; organized, detail-oriented, and able to work independently or collaboratively.

Effective communication with technical and non-technical audiences.

Located in or willing to relocate to San Diego, CA; Denver, CO; Arlington, VA; or Boston, MA.

Even Better

Active Top Secret clearance.

Advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.

Experience with full web-service stack, including databases, logging, and monitoring; Jira project tracking.

Designing, deploying, and monitoring Kubernetes clusters.

Deploying and configuring static and dynamic code analysis tools (e.g., SonarQube, Coverity).

Platforms such as Argo CD, Flux, or Terraform; leading teams in an Agile/SCRUM process.

Current Security+ certification.

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $175,000 - $240,000

Note: Salary ranges are based on external market data and may vary by experience, education, training, security clearances, and market conditions.

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Worksite address

san diego, CA, 92189, US

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