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# Lead DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** Str Limited
- **Location:** Dayton, OH, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $173,000.0 - $216,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Algorithm Design, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Unit Testing, Cloud Engineering, Static Program Analysis, Code Coverage, Code Review, Linux, DevOps, Python (Programming Language), Systems Development Life Cycle, Software Tools, Software Systems, Containerization, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Rancher, Devsecops
- **Published:** September 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9165534/lead-devops-engineer

## About the Role

* U.S. Citizen with
 * BS in Computer Science or related technical field with 7+ years' experience
 * Experience with GitLab CI/CD
 * Hands-on experience with AWS EKS, ECR, and EC2
 * Experience with containerization and Kubernetes
 * Proficiency with Helm
 * Strong Linux skills
 * Scripting and automation with Python
 * Proven ability to lead within agile teams through complete development lifecycle including task definition, delegation, and maintenance
 * Demonstrated success driving industry best practices in areas such as code review, unit testing, test coverage, static analysis, etc., to ensure mature, high-quality software products
 * Comfortable working both with internal leadership and external customers in the development and execution of software product plans
 * A demonstrated ability to adopt new languages, libraries, and technologies

Even Better:

 * MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field
 * Experience with the following:

 * Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
 * Familiarity with cloud-native deployments on AWS and Rancher
 * Experience troubleshooting containerized applications in integration and production environments
 * Understanding of DevOps best practices for automation, deployment, and reliability

 * Active TS Security Clearance. TS/SCI even better.

## Description

As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will work as a leader of software teams to design, develop, and maintain infrastructure and tooling to deploy software in operational use focused on advanced algorithms and software systems for autonomous platforms. You will provide technical leadership and mentoring on programs working throughout the software and system development lifecycle, from early prototypes to integrated systems. Your work will develop a diverse set of software tools and applications for mission planning systems, automated control processes, unmanned platforms, DevSecOps, and CI/CD pipelines. This position is based in Woburn, MA, Arlington, VA, or Dayton, OH, and will take advantage of STR's flexible, hybrid environment - when the work does not require use of STR's facilities, you are welcome to work remotely.


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