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# Director of DevOps and Tooling

- **Company:** Forterra
- **Location:** Clarksburg, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $175,000.0 - $250,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, C Sharp (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Computer Engineering, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Python (Programming Language), Ansible, Prometheus, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Grafana, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Terraform, Jenkins, Golang
- **Published:** August 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.military.com/career/300571/director-devops-tooling-maryland-md-clarksburg

## About the Role

10+ years of software, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering experience, including 3+ years leading and growing engineering teams.B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related field - or equivalent hands-on experience. Demonstrated depth matters more than the specific degree.Deep hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent.Production experience with Kubernetes and container-based workloads, including operating clusters rather than only consuming them.Demonstrated ownership of CI/CD systems (GitLab CI, Jenkins, or equivalent) at organizational scale, with measurable improvements to build, test, or release cycle time.Experience operating in a regulated or controlled environment, with working knowledge of ITAR, NIST 800-171, or comparable security and compliance frameworks.Proficiency in at least one general-purpose
language (e.g., Python, Go, C#, TypeScript) sufficient to build and maintain tooling directly, not only review it.Experience with observability and monitoring stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) and with defining and holding reliability targets.Ability to work credibly with hardware and embedded teams and reason about test infrastructure that includes physical devices.Must be a U.S. Person and eligible to obtain a security clearance in the future. No current clearance is required to start.\n



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