Senior DevOps Engineer

Overview

Business Unit: Cubic Defense

Company Details: When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners.

We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD). Explore more on

Job Details:

Job Summary:
We are seeking a Senior Dev Ops Engineer to drive the hands-on development and sustainment of a Kubernetes platform built around RKE2, expand that platform to support Red Hat Open Shift, and support internal developer teams through shared CI/CD infrastructure. This role supports customer-site deployments in restricted environments and focuses on platform engineering, CI/CD enablement, and operational execution. The role will implement platform designs and deployment patterns defined by the Lead Architect while maintaining platform and CI/CD capabilities.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Extend and adapt platform capabilities to support and integrate with Red Hat Open Shift
• Lead development of platform capabilities using industry best practices and standards
• Develop platform tooling and services to support repeatable, automated deployments
• Support installation, configuration, upgrades, and patching of platform components on customer-managed clusters
• Implement Kubernetes and Open Shift security controls aligned with DoD STIGs, RMF, and NIST 800-53
• Troubleshoot and resolve platform-level issues across development, test, and deployed environments
• Design and maintain Git Lab CI pipelines and shared pipeline templates
• Maintain CI/CD runners, build environments, and supporting tooling
• Assist developers with pipeline design, troubleshooting, and optimization
• Support platform deployments at customer sites, including pre-deployment validation and post-deployment stabilization
• Participate in incident response and root cause analysis related to platform or CI/CD services
• Demonstrates deep technical ownership across Kubernetes platform and CI/CD infrastructure
• Serves as a primary technical reference for RKE2, Open Shift, and Git Lab CI/CD
• Balances platform development with developer support responsibilities
• Ensures solutions are robust, supportable, and aligned with architectural intent
• Mentors engineers through design reviews, implementation guidance, and troubleshooting

Minimum Job Requirements

• Four-year college degree in computer science, electronic engineering or other related technical discipline, plus a minimum of five years of related experience or a master’s degree with three years of related experience.
• Experience to include software development/engineering, developing state-of-the-art computer software, exercising creativity in technical direction and successful strategy development.
• Strong hands-on experience with Rancher RKE
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• Experience creating Helm charts and configuration artifacts for repeatable installs.
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, Go, or similar).
• Experience with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, EFK/ELK, Open Search).
• Experience working in classified, air-gapped, or otherwise restricted environments.
• Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Salt, or similar).
• Ability to use PC software such as word processing, database, spreadsheet and flowchart, and Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools.
• Must be available for domestic and possible international travel.
• Must be eligible to work in a DOD cleared facility

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Git Lab CI/CD, including pipeline authoring and runner management.
• Hands-on experience with Red Hat Open Shift platform.
• Experience operating Kubernetes-based systems in disconnected or limited-connectivity environments.
• Software development experience, including integrating with Kubernetes.
• Experience using dependency management tools (Renovate).
• Experience deploying and managing VM-based infrastructure using Terraform / Tofu.
• Familiarity with Git Ops-style configuration management.
• Knowledge of DoD compliance frameworks (RMF, STIGs, NIST 800-53).
• Kubernetes, Open Shift, or Git Lab certifications.
• Active DoD Top Secret clearance.

Salary & Benefits:
Cubic pay range: 70,922.

-  USD Annual plus benefits. The Cubic pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Cubic Pay Range:

The Cubic pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of…