Senior DevOps Engineer

Applied Research Solutions is seeking Senior Dev Ops Engineers to support a cutting‑edge program supporting the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. The Senior Dev Ops Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the automation, tooling, and infrastructure that supports high‑quality software delivery. This role focuses on enabling development teams to deploy applications reliably, securely, and at scale through modern Dev Ops practices, cloud technologies, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure‑as‑code.

The ideal candidate is a proactive engineer with strong problem‑solving skills, deep experience with cloud environments, and a passion for automation and continuous improvement.

Applied Research Solutions (ARS) is respected as a world‑class provider of technically integrated solutions as we deliver premier talent and technology across our focused markets for unparalleled, continuous mission support.

Awarded a Best Places to Work nominee since 2020, ARS recognizes that without our career‑driven, loyal professionals, we would not be able to deliver state‑of‑the‑art results for our mission partners. We firmly believe that prioritizing our employees is of the upmost importance. We provide a culture where our employees are challenged to meet their career goals and aspirations, while still obtaining a work/life balance.

ARS employees are motivated through our industry competitive benefits package, our awards and recognition program, and personalized attention from ARS Senior Managers.

• Architect, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support rapid, reliable, and repeatable software delivery across multiple environments.
• Design and manage automated infrastructure provisioning using infrastructure‑as‑code tools.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure application performance, reliability, and security.
• Collaborate closely with development, QA, security, and operations teams to streamline build, test, and deployment workflows.
• Manage and optimize cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) with an emphasis on scalability, cost efficiency, and security best practices.
• Automate operational processes, including environment creation, deployments, configuration management, and system maintenance.
• Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve issues across the full stack—from application code to infrastructure layers.
• Maintain strong security practices across CI/CD pipelines, cloud resources, and deployment processes.
• Guide and mentor developers and junior Dev Ops engineers in Dev Ops methodologies, cloud architecture, and automation tooling.
• Lead efforts to improve reliability, performance, and resilience through system design, chaos testing, capacity planning, and root cause analysis.
• Support containerization and orchestration platforms (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) to deliver scalable microservices architectures.
• Develop and maintain documentation for environments, automation scripts, procedures, and system designs.
• Other duties as assigned

• Must be a US citizen
• Active Top Secret clearance needed to start with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Poly
• Knowledge and experience developing multi-tiered or microservice applications.
• Experience with at least one cloud platform. i.e.. AWS, Azure, Google.
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools (Git Lab CI, Jenkins).
• Strong scripting experience.
• SDLC:
  Understanding the full Software Development Life Cycle.
• Networking:
  Basic networking, security, & firewall concepts.
• Security:
  Dev Sec Ops  principles, identity & access management
• Automation:
  Scripting & building automated pipelines.
• Ability to work effectively in a team-oriented environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Experience supporting US government agencies.
• Experience using Amazon Web Services.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with tools such as Ansible and Terraform).
• Deploying and maintain Kubernetes distributions.
• Familiarity with Git Ops (Git Lab, ArgoCD).
• Monitoring & Logging experience (Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry, ELK Stack).
• Knowledge of ESXL

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