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# DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** Navstar Inc.
- **Location:** Chantilly, VA, United States
- **Salary:** $100,000.0 - $275,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Backup Devices, Configuration Management, Collaborative Software, CompTIA Security+, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Monitoring of Systems, Software Engineering, Delivery Pipeline, Grafana, Git, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Performance Monitor, Software Version Control
- **Published:** September 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9181946/devops-engineer

## About the Role

* To be eligible for this position you must hold an active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
 * Experience with deployment technologies, such as Kubernetes (K8s) for container orchestration.
 * Experience with metrics monitoring and dashboards (Grafana).
 * Understanding of user access practices and security controls within a system.
 * Understanding of system administration in various OS environments.
 * Strong knowledge of configuration management tools.
 * Strong communication and documentation skills.
 * Understanding of software development lifecycle best practices.
 * Must be able to work both independently and in a team environment.
 * Able to work on-call hours as required.

Desired Skills and Qualifications:

 * Understanding of AWS services and cloud management.
 * Experience maintaining existing production kubernetes installations.
 * Experience with kubernetes configuration management systems such as helm and GitOps.
 * Continuous integration processes and tools such as GitLab CI.
 * Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and collaboration tools.
 * System monitoring and analysis.
 * Familiarity with Intelligence Community and DoD mission sets.
 * CompTIA Security+ certification or willingness to get certified.

## Description

Would you like to perform rewarding work while contributing to the success of an established, growing company? Navstar is an award-winning organization that has a proven track record of successfully providing IT services and solutions both as a prime and sub-contractor on mission-focused IT programs. Our employees are integral players in support of mission-critical programs focused on our National Security., * Under general direction, finds deficiencies with our product delivery lifecycle and architecture and implement industry best practices to improve them.

 * Oversees and offers input over hiring of a small DevOps team to assist the operation and maintenance of our products.
 * Inspects, patches, and upgrades our existing product(s) so that they can more reliably deliver to customer environments.
 * Maintains development, testing, and production environments.
 * Manages continuous integration and delivery pipelines to maximize efficiency.
 * Implements industry best practices for system hardening and configuration management.
 * Develops and maintains solutions for operational administration, system/data backup, disaster recovery, and security/performance monitoring.
 * Tests system integrity, implemented designs, application developments and other processes related to infrastructure, making improvements as needed.
 * Manages code deployments, fixes, updates and related processes.
 * Works with CI/CD tools, and source control (git)
 * Offers technical support where needed, developing software for our back-end systems.
 * Stays current with industry trends and source new ways for our business to improve.