Senior DevOps​/Systems Administrator; Top Secret Clearance

Systems Administrator

ICF is a mission‑driven company dedicated to improving the lives of others and building a better world. Our core values include embracing difference, and we seek candidates who are passionate about cultivating inclusive cultures.

The Engineering and Emerging Technologies team works side by side with customers to articulate a vision for success and then deliver it. We are looking for a seasoned Dev Ops Engineer/Systems Administrator to support daily operations of IT systems for a government program, ensuring stability, security, and compliance across infrastructure components in both classified and unclassified environments while adhering to Department of Defense security standards.

Remote – must be performed within the United States and support U.S. Eastern Time Zone hours. ICF monitors employee work locations, restricts access from foreign IP addresses, and prohibits the use of personal VPNs.

• Implement best‑in‑class cloud‑based solutions in AWS using infrastructure as code (Terraform).
• Deploy, set up, and run infrastructure configurations for various AWS and on‑prem (DISA) services.
• Architect and implement scalable, reliable, and secure platform solutions.
• Manage container definitions, deployment pipelines, tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Work with bash, SQL, Python, and other scripting languages.
• Engage with technical stakeholders including application development, networking, infrastructure, information security, risk, enterprise identity and access management, and security operations.
• Enable and optimize automation of application and infrastructure environments.
• Collaborate to build cloud infrastructure with an understanding of Kubernetes, containers, and serverless functions.
• Develop, maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines for delivering features, fixes, and system updates in development, integration, and production environments.
• Set up, integrate, and maintain a scalable, stable set of CI/CD tools to support development, testing, and security scanning.
• Implement application metrics collection and log aggregation to provide continuous monitoring capabilities, track all aspects of the system, infrastructure, performance, and application errors, and roll up metrics.
• Analyze functional and non‑functional business requirements, translate them into technical operational requirements, and propose CI/CD pipelines with tools and plugins.
• Make a big impact as part of a small team pushing boundaries.

• Active DoD Top Secret clearance.
• Security+ or equivalent certification.
• 5+ years of experience in systems administration and support.
• 3+ years of experience with containers.
• 3+ years of experience setting up CI/CD pipelines with open‑source plugins.
• 3+ years of experience in Dev Ops / Agile / Scrum environments.
• 3+ years of experience with monitoring tools such as Application Insights, Prometheus, or Datadog.
• 3+ years of experience with open technologies and related infrastructure as code tools, JIRA, including Docker, Git Hub, Git, and others.
• 3+ years of hands‑on experience with configuration management, cloud orchestration, and automation tools in AWS environments.
• 3+ years’ experience provisioning and managing infrastructure and applications in AWS cloud environments.
• 2+ years of experience identifying and implementing automation for continuous integration and continuous deployment.
• 2+ years of experience writing infrastructure as code using Terraform.

ICF is an equal‑opportunity employer. We empower employees to share expertise and collaborate to achieve personal and professional goals. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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$81,094 – $166,810 per annum (Nationwide Remote Office – US99).

Mid‑Senior Level

Full‑time

Information Technology

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