Top Secret DevOps Engineer

Insight Global is seeking a DevOps Engineer to support their client in NGA Core at a customer location in St. Louis, Missouri. The DevOps Engineer will support the enterprise-scale platform as a service (PaaS) and is responsible for ensuring dependable daily operation, providing direct customer/tenant support (up to and including Tier 3), evolving and improving platform components, meeting security requirements, and deploying scalable solutions that balance performance and cost within their 6+ multitenant clusters.

Communicate effectively in both written and verbal form with peers & decision makers Excel in juggling deliverables across multiple efforts in parallel within an Agile framework Demonstrate expertise in software delivery to DoD public cloud regions (C2S / GovCloud) and Kubernetes platforms The ability to replace operational tasks with automated workflows, GitOps pipelines, and self-service tooling Enable PaaS tenants to onboard smoothly, adopt best practices, and experience reduced friction in deploying and operating workloads Design systems and platform components to maximize auditability, traceability, and real-time observability Proven ability to automate complex, multi-step workflows and operational processes to reduce toil and increase reliability Tenacity when tackling system security and compliance requirements

Skills and Requirements

3-5+ years’ overall experience in managing/administrating Kubernetes clusters, control plane components, autoscaling, and container-based workload troubleshooting

Experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, etc)

Hands-on experience with ArgoCD for CI/CD

Experience with Crossplane or similar service layer abstraction tooling

Experience with AWS (preferred), Azure, or GCP cloud platforms including IAM, load balancers, and managed Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE)

Experience with scripting languages like Python and Bash Experience administrating multitenant OpenShift clusters

Familiarity with security compliance tools (e.g., Grype, Fortify, etc.)

Familiarity with Agile development framework