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# Senior DevOps Engineer, Observability and FinOps

- **Company:** Caci Inc
- **Location:** Reston, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $98,500 - $206,800
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Bash Shell, Continuous Integration, Data Integration, DevOps, Identity and Access Management, Image Management, Python (Programming Language), Octopus Deploy, OpenShift, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ansible, Prometheus, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Web Applications, Scripting, Istio, Grafana, Kubernetes Helm Charts, Gitlab-ci, Git Flow, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Apache Kafka, Cloudwatch, Terraform, Splunk, Dynatrace, Jenkins
- **Published:** October 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9279463/senior-devops-engineer-observability-and-finops

## About the Role

Required:

 * TS/SCI with polygraph
 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field.
 * 3+ years deploying and operating at least one enterprise stack: Grafana/Prometheus ecosystem, Elastic (ELK), Dynatrace, or Splunk
 * Metrics, logs, and traces instrumentation; working knowledge of OpenTelemetry or Prometheus exporters
 * Built operational dashboards and alert rules used by real operators; understands SLI/SLO concepts
 * 3+ years with Kubernetes in production; Red Hat OpenShift strongly aligned
 * 2+ years with AWS (EC2, S3, EKS, IAM, CloudWatch, Cost and Usage Reports)
 * Demonstrated experience analyzing cloud spend, applying tagging strategies, and delivering at least one cost optimization outcome
 * Terraform and Ansible; Helm charts or Operators
 * Built and maintained pipelines in GitLab CI, Jenkins, or equivalent; Git workflows
 * Proficient in Python or Go plus scripting (Bash); able to write and query SQL and PromQL or equivalent
 * RHEL administration and troubleshooting
 * Hardening to DISA STIGs; familiarity with RMF and NIST SP 800-53 controls
 * Worked in air-gapped or disconnected networks, including offline package and image management

Desired :

 * Hands-on with Grafana Alloy, Mimir, Loki, and Tempo at scale
 * Production time on two or more of Grafana, Elastic, and Dynatrace, enabling side-by-side judgment
 * Store-and-forward pipelines, edge collectors, Kafka or similar buffering over intermittent links
 * Moved data or software through cross-domain solutions (CDS) or approved transfer processes
 * OpenCost or Kubecost, CloudHealth, Apptio Cloudability, or AWS Cost Explorer and Cost and Usage Report analytics
 * Istio or a comparable service mesh, including mesh-level metrics and tracing
 * Cluster monitoring and user workload monitoring, Operators, OpenShift GitOps and Pipelines

## Description

This engineer makes mission systems visible and their costs accountable, on networks that cannot call out to the internet. The role blends platform engineering (Kubernetes/OpenShift, infrastructure as code, CI/CD) with enough full stack development to build the dashboards, APIs, and small internal tools that operators and financial stakeholders use every day., * Deploy, configure, and operate the observability stack (for example Grafana Alloy, Mimir, Loki, and Tempo on OpenShift, or Elastic or Dynatrace where selected) on each network

 * Instrument applications and infrastructure with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus exporters; standardize labels, tags, and naming
 * Build real-time mission status dashboards and service health views for operators, engineers, and leadership
 * Implement cost visibility and allocation across AWS, OpenShift, and on-premises resources using tagging standards and showback or chargeback models
 * Build cost and utilization dashboards that join billing exports with observability metrics (unit cost per mission application, per namespace, per program)
 * Identify and execute optimization: rightsizing, idle resource cleanup, storage lifecycle policies, Reserved Instance and Savings Plan coverage analysis
 * Automate infrastructure and stack deployment with Terraform, Ansible, and Helm or Operators; manage configuration through GitOps (Argo CD or similar)
 * Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, or Tekton) including image scanning, signing, and promotion into air-gapped registries
 * Package software and dependencies for offline transfer and cross-domain delivery
 * Develop lightweight web apps, APIs, and Grafana plugins or panels for custom status views and cost reports
 * Write data integration scripts (Python, Go) that pull from billing exports, CMDBs, and ticketing systems
 * Document runbooks, architecture diagrams, and user guides; train operators and mentor junior engineers