Senior DevOps Engineer

Applied Research Solutions is seeking Senior DevOps Engineers to support a cutting-edge program supporting the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. The Senior DevOps Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the automation, tooling, and infrastructure that supports high-quality software delivery. This role focuses on enabling development teams to deploy applications reliably, securely, and at scale through modern DevOps practices, cloud technologies, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code. The ideal candidate is a proactive engineer with strong problem-solving skills, deep experience with cloud environments, and a passion for automation and continuous improvement., * Architect, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support rapid, reliable, and repeatable software delivery across multiple environments.

• Design and manage automated infrastructure provisioning using infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure application performance, reliability, and security.
• Collaborate closely with development, QA, security, and operations teams to streamline build, test, and deployment workflows.
• Manage and optimize cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) with an emphasis on scalability, cost efficiency, and security best practices.
• Automate operational processes, including environment creation, deployments, configuration management, and system maintenance.
• Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve issues across the full stack-from application code to infrastructure layers.
• Maintain strong security practices across CI/CD pipelines, cloud resources, and deployment processes.
• Guide and mentor developers and junior DevOps engineers in DevOps methodologies, cloud architecture, and automation tooling.
• Lead efforts to improve reliability, performance, and resilience through system design, chaos testing, capacity planning, and root cause analysis.
• Support containerization and orchestration platforms (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) to deliver scalable microservices architectures.
• Develop and maintain documentation for environments, automation scripts, procedures, and system designs.
• Other duties as assigned

• Must be a US citizen
• Active Top Secret clearance needed to start with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Poly
• Knowledge and experience developing multi-tiered or microservice applications.
• Experience with at least one cloud platform. i.e.. AWS, Azure, Google.
• Containerization experience (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools (GitLab CI, Jenkins).
• Strong scripting experience.
• Linux experience.
• SDLC: Understanding the full Software Development Life Cycle.
• Networking: Basic networking, security, & firewall concepts.
• Security: DevSecOps principles, identity & access management
• Automation: Scripting & building automated pipelines.
• Strong problem solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a team-oriented environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, * Experience supporting US government agencies.
• Experience using Amazon Web Services.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with tools such as Ansible and Terraform).
• Deploying and maintain Kubernetes distributions.
• Familiarity with GitOps (GitLab, ArgoCD).
• Monitoring & Logging experience (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK Stack).
• Knowledge of ESXL

The expected annual salary range: $180k - $220k. Salary is dependent upon the role and associated responsibilities, candidate’s experience, and qualifications to include education/training, and key skills.

All positions at Applied Research Solutions are subject to background investigations. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background investigation including criminal history and identity check.

Applied Research Solutions (ARS) is respected as a world-class provider of technically integrated solutions as we deliver premier talent and technology across our focused markets for unparalleled, continuous mission support.Awarded a Best Places to Work nominee since 2020, ARS recognizes that without our career- driven, loyal professionals, we would not be able to deliver state-of-the-art results for our mission partners. We firmly believe that prioritizing our employees is of the upmost importance. We provide a culture where our employees are challenged to meet their career goals and aspirations, while still obtaining a work/life balance. ARS employees are motivated through our industry competitive benefits package, our awards and recognition program, and personalized attention from ARS Senior Managers.