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# DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** Shadowgate Partners, Inc.
- **Location:** Fairfax, VA, United States
- **Salary:** $125,000.0 - $215,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Backup Devices, Bash Shell, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Configuration Management, Computer Engineering, Continuous Integration, Linux, DevOps, Monitoring of Systems, Python (Programming Language), Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ansible, Prometheus, Software Deployment, Scripting, Grafana, Gitlab, Git Flow, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Puppet, Terraform, Jenkins, Vmware, Microservices
- **Published:** August 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9078358/devops-engineer

## About the Role

Experience with cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure) and/or hardware/virtualization (HPE, VMware)

 - Experience successfully navigating the Kubernetes landscape and familiarity with Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) tools and software
 - Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Terragrunt, etc.)
 - Experience with configuration management automation (Ansible, Puppet, etc.)
 - Experience with application deployment using CI/CD and Git workflows (pipelines utilizing GitLab, Jenkins, etc.)
 - Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
 - Experience with Linux (RHEL 9, RPM-based)
 - Experience/exposure with metrics tooling (Elastic, etc.)
 - Experience working within a program of record supporting security requirements and system hardening
 - Scripting (Python, Bash, etc.)

Desired Skills

 - Experience with storage provisioning (OpenEBS, S3, etc.) along with data backup and restore
 - Microservices architecture and design
 - Experience working in a collaborative, agile environment that supports rapidly changing requirements

Educational Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field. Master's Degree preferred.

Security Clearance

TS/SCI with the ability to obtain a CI polygraph after starting in role.

## Description

The DevOps Engineer will work in a fast-paced environment to assist in migration and deployment of applications across both on-prem and cloud infrastructures. Support onboarding of new tenants and assist application developers with creating deployments, standing up common services, and recommending solutions for maximizing efficient use of hardware resources.


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