Senior DevOps Engineer Security Clearance

Position: Senior DevOps Engineer with Security Clearance
Why AIS? When you join AIS, you're joining a mission-driven team that's passionate about making a difference. You'll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.
* Employee Ownership:
Your contributions directly impact the company's success, and you share in its achievements.

* Continuous Learning:
Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.

* Inclusive Culture: A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone's voice is valued.

* Mission-Driven Work:
Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities. What are we looking for? At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles. Working@AIS
At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Senior Dev Ops Engineer.
* Core Knowledge &

Skills:

Masters CI/CD best practices and tool chains, multiple scripting languages, cloud platforms, and Kubernetes; integrates security into pipelines (Dev Sec Ops ).

* Work & Complexity:
Designs complex workflows, leads incident response for critical systems, and automates advanced deployment and configuration scenarios.

* Quality & Independence:
Sets a high bar for availability and performance, develops comprehensive test suites, and makes significant technical decisions with minimal oversight.

* Teamwork & Communication:
Leads collaborative efforts, mentors juniors, facilitates decisions, and communicates complex issues to stakeholders.

* Consulting & Engagement:
Leads optimization initiatives, provides expert guidance on tools and practices, and contributes to strategic projects. As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Senior Dev Ops Engineer. Senior Dev Ops Engineer

Location:

* Occasional onsite visits are in Washington, DC or Austin, TX, but mostly remote.
Security Clearance:
* Secret or (Interim Secret required prior to starting)

Role Overview :
As a Senior Dev Ops Engineer, you will collaborate with our clients to design, implement, maintain, and test various technical solutions using the latest technologies. You will support the design, implementation, and maintenance of enterprise-grade Kubernetes infrastructure, CI/CD automation, and containerized platform deployments in Azure Government environments. You will be responsible for creating and enhancing various automation processes, including build management, automated deployments, automated testing, and configuration management.

Key Responsibilities:

Kubernetes & Container Operations
* Support management of AKS clusters across dev/test/prod environments, assisting the team with day-to-day operations

* Build, scan, and harden Linux-based container images; push to private Azure Container Registry using Docker or Podman

* Work with kubectl, Helm, Kustomize, and Istio service mesh configurations

* Perform container vulnerability scanning with Trivy and remediate CVEs for cyber approval processes CI/CD Automation & IaC
* Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure Dev Ops or Git Lab YAML syntax

* Contribute to Terraform modules and automation frameworks used across teams for infrastructure provisioning

* Write Bash scripts for Linux-based automation tasks;
Power Shell and Python experience a plus

* Support KEDA-based workload scaling patterns and event-driven architecture implementations Platform Support & Troubleshooting
* Assist with technical deployments and ongoing operations for platforms including Elasticsearch/Kibana, Keycloak, RabbitMQ, and Azure AI infrastructure

* Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues involving Application Gateway, private endpoints, Entra n, and APIM

* Contribute to documentation and runbooks that enable team autonomy

Required Qualifications:

* Minimum 5 years of IT/Dev Ops engineering experience

* Active Secret clearance (or Interim Secret prior to start)

* CompTIA Security+ certification

* AZ-104 or AZ-305 certification

* Strong Bash scripting proficiency in Linux environments

* Hands-on experience building and managing Linux-based containers (Docker or Podman)

* Familiarity with Kubernetes tooling: kubectl, Helm, Kustomize

* Experience with pipeline YAML syntax (Azure Dev Ops, Git Lab, Git Hub Actions, or similar)

* Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform

* Understanding of Azure services: AKS, Azure Networking, Entra , Azure SQL, App Gateway

* Experience with CI/CD concepts across multiple tool chains

* Scripting experience in Python
Nice-to-Have

Skills:

* Experience with cARMY Cloud or GOV…