DevOps Engineer - Senior

Neuma Consulting is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to support the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) on a recently awarded 5-year contract, offering long-term stability and the opportunity to shape how software is built, secured, and delivered across the EPD application ecosystem.

EPD’s applications are moving from VM-based deployments to a fully containerized architecture, and the pipelines, platforms, and automation you build will be the backbone of that transition. You’ll work within a broader engineering organization of 40+ developers, serving every application team-including Foundational Services and the SOURCE rebuild-as the senior technical resource for CI/CD, containerization, and infrastructure automation in a classified environment.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and maintain GitLab CI pipelines used by application teams across the EPD ecosystem

• Lead containerization of applications and manage orchestration on OpenShift, supporting the migration from VM-based deployments to containers

• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and environment builds across development, test, and production enclaves

• Integrate security into the pipeline: STIG hardening, vulnerability and dependency scanning, and automated compliance checks

• Build and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting for containerized workloads; review server logs and consoles onsite to triage and debug production issues

• Support cross-domain deployment processes (high-to-low) and releases across multiple security domains

• Partner with the ISSO to generate evidence for assessment and authorization and keep environments continuously compliant

• Mentor developers on pipeline usage, container best practices, and deployment workflows

• Document platform architecture, runbooks, and release procedures

Tech Stack: GitLab CI Pipelines, Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Linux (RHEL), Ansible, Terraform, Bash, Python, Node.js/TypeScript application stacks, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch

A Great Fit If You: enjoy being the platform backbone for multiple teams rather than owning a single product, take satisfaction in making deployments boring and repeatable, and have experience operating in classified environments. Because the EPD systems run on JWICS and much of the work is hands-on in the SCIF, a recent CI Poly is strongly preferred to enable onsite work from day one.

What the Role Requires

• Education: Master’s degree from an accredited college or university; or a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university plus an additional 2 years of related experience

• Experience: Minimum 8 years of experience related to the specific labor category (minimum 10 years with a Bachelor’s degree)

• Active TS/SCI clearance (recent CI Polygraph strongly preferred)

• Mandatory: GitLab CI (or equivalent CI/CD), Docker, container orchestration (OpenShift or Kubernetes), Linux administration, scripting (Bash and/or Python)

• Experience deploying and operating applications in classified or otherwise restricted environments

• Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management (Terraform, Ansible, or similar)

• Experience integrating security scanning and STIG compliance into build and deployment workflows

• Experience supporting databases and data services in production (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch)

• Experience working within collaborative, cross-functional Agile teams
• Strong leadership, communication, and mentoring skills

• Comprehensive knowledge across key tasks and high-impact assignments, with the ability to plan and lead major technology assignments, evaluate performance results, recommend changes affecting project growth and success, and function as a technical expert across multiple project assignments

• Highly Desired: DoD 8140/8570 certification (e.g., Security+), experience with cross- domain solutions, JWICS experience, artifact management (Nexus/Artifactory), Helm, GitOps workflows, monitoring stacks (Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/Splunk)

Clearance Required: Active TS/SCI (recent CI Polygraph strongly preferred) Location: Hybrid - SCIF support required (Reston, VA or JB Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, DC) Contract: Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) | 5-year contract through 2030 Start Date: Immediate

About Neuma Consulting

At Neuma Consulting LLC, we believe that inspired lives produce inspired solutions. As a minority-owned, mission-driven government consulting firm based in Northern Virginia, we partner with defense and intelligence agencies to revolutionize how intelligence is produced, visualized, disseminated, and consumed.

We are intentional about building an environment where talented people can do their best work-professionally and personally-while delivering high-impact solutions to some of the nation’s most critical missions.

Our Values

• Relational Integrity - We operate with honesty, trust, and respect in every interaction.

• Collective Ingenuity - We believe the best solutions emerge from collaboration and diverse perspectives.

• Intentional Stewardship - We thoughtfully manage our time, talent, and resources to deliver lasting value.

• Creative Rest - We recognize that balance and rest are essential to sustained creativity and performance.

• Transforming Generosity - We go beyond expectations for our teammates, our customers, and our community.

• Fun! - We take pride in our work and believe enjoying the journey matters., At Neuma, you’ll find the impact and visibility of a small company combined with long-term mission stability. We value thoughtful leadership, technical excellence, and a culture that supports both performance and balance.

Benefits & Perks

• 401(k) with up to 6% company match (immediately vested)
• 15 days of paid vacation plus 11 federal holidays
• $1,500 annual education and training assistance
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with low deductibles
• Company-paid life, short-term, and long-term disability insurance
• Flexible work hours (flextime)
• Charitable giving match up to $1,000 annually
• Quarterly company events and employee referral bonuses
• 2 days onsite (Reston, VA or JB Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, DC) & 3 days offsite

Join Us

If you’re a cleared senior DevOps engineer who wants to build the platform that powers an entire IC application ecosystem-alongside people who value integrity and collaboration- Neuma Consulting is the place for you.