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# DevOps Test Engineer

- **Company:** T-Rex Solutions, LLC
- **Location:** Fort Meade, MD, United States
- **Salary:** $160,000.0 - $200,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** User Authentication, Cyber Security, DevOps, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Public Key Infrastructure, Logstash, Ansible, Software Deployment, Data Ingestion, Kubernetes Helm Charts, Containerization, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Atlassian Tools, Kibana, Restful APIs
- **Published:** August 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://justjobs.com/main/sendform/8/8/28176/1/17979805?backUrl=%2Fcareer%2F17979805%2FDevops-Test-Engineer-Maryland-Fort-Meade

## About the Role

We are seeking a skilled and motivated Mid-Level DevOps Engineerto join our ICAM team. In this role, the candidate will help build, maintain, and improve the infrastructure, deployment processes, and tooling that enable our development teams to deliver reliable software efficiently.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Helm, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code,Elasticsearch, containerization, monitoring, and automation. You should be comfortable working collaboratively with system and software engineers and security teams while taking ownership of DevOps initiatives from implementation through production support.

Requirements:

 * Bachelor's and 10 years of related experience.
 * Active TS/SCI w/ FSP required within 7 years.

Desired Skills:

Kubernetes & Platform Engineering

 * Experience with Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management.
 * Experience developing and maintaining Helm charts for application deployment and configuration.
 * Experience with GitOps tools and CI/CD pipeline integration
 * Infrastructure-as-Code and automation experience utilizing Ansible.
 * Understanding scalability and high-availability strategies with deployments across multiple service centers (e.g., availability zones).

Systems, Software, and Integration

 * Experience with PKI and certificate-based authentication.
 * Familiarity with REST APIs and service-based architecture.
 * Experience managing Elasticsearch clusters, Logstash pipelines, and Kibana dashboards, focusing on cluster performance and data ingestion.
 * Experience supporting systems using MongoDB.

Collaboration & Communication

 * Strong verbal and written communication skills.
 * Experience collaborating with software developers, test engineers, and system administrators.
 * Ability to lead technical discussions and brief technical and non-technical stakeholders.
 * Experience developing program review materials.

Experience using JIRA and Confluence.

## Description

Are you ready to make a significant impact by supporting critical national security infrastructure? T-Rex Solutions is looking for a fully cleared Mid-Level DevOps Engineerto join our dynamic team at Ft. Meade, MD in support of the Intelligence Community.


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