DevOps Engineer

San Antonio, TX

Texas Cyber Command (TXCC)

• Provide senior systems administration, platform operations, and Dev Ops automation support for Texas Cyber Command business IT and mission support environments. Operate, secure, monitor, and improve Windows, Linux, macOS, virtualization, cloud, container, endpoint, identity, and collaboration services used by a small IT team supporting a growing agency.
• Develop, maintain, and operate scripts, runbooks, source‑controlled operational repositories, infrastructure and configuration artifacts, and repeatable procedures. Use scripting, APIs, git‑based workflows, CI/CD practices, configuration management, and orchestration tools to reduce manual work, improve service reliability, and support secure change execution.
• Support Kubernetes and containerized services, VMware administration, public cloud operations across AWS, Azure, and GCP, monitoring, alerting, backup and recovery coordination, patching, vulnerability remediation, and operational documentation. Implement and maintain SOAR playbooks and automation that support security operations, incident response, evidence preservation, service restoration, ticket enrichment, notification workflows, and routine maintenance.
• Participate in migration, buildout, stabilization, and sustainment activities. Support secure configuration baselines, access controls, privileged operations, incident response support, audit evidence, technical transition materials, and knowledge transfer. Coordinate with TXCC personnel and approved vendors to execute work under TXCC priorities and security requirements.

Candidate must be a U.S. citizen, pass required background checks, complete required cybersecurity, privacy, and operational training before gaining system access, and comply with TXCC security and data‑handling requirements. Occasional after‑hours support may be required with TXCC approval. Work must be performed from within the United States unless TXCC grants prior written approval.

Initial term anticipated for 12 months; extension subject to agency need, funding, and ITSAC terms. Travel, after‑hours work, and overtime require prior written approval. Work products, including diagrams, runbooks, scripts, reports, repositories, automation workflows, configuration artifacts, and transition materials, are deliverables to TXCC. Contractor shall use only TXCC‑approved accounts and repositories and shall not use TXCC information to train AI or ML systems without express written approval.

The working position is hybrid – on site and telework.

• 8+ years required:
  Senior systems administration, platform engineering, Dev Ops, SRE, or infrastructure operations experience supporting enterprise or government environments.
• 5+ years required:
  Hands‑on administration of Linux and Windows server or endpoint environments, including patching, hardening, service troubleshooting, logging, and automation.
• 3+ years required: macOS administration or enterprise endpoint support, including device management, user support, configuration baselines, software deployment, or security controls.
• 3+ years required: VMware, vSphere, or equivalent virtualization experience, including VM provisioning, templates, networking coordination, snapshots, backup coordination, performance, and capacity.
• 3+ years required:
  Kubernetes or container platform administration, including deployments, manifests, Helm or equivalent tooling, container images, RBAC, troubleshooting, and operational monitoring.
• 3+ years required:
  Git‑based workflows, source control, branching, peer review, repository‑based documentation, CI/CD concepts, secrets hygiene, and controlled change execution.
• 3+ years required:
  Scripting and automation using at least two languages or shells such as Power Shell, Bash, Python, Go, JavaScript, or similar, including use of APIs and scheduled automation.
• 2+ years required:
  Public cloud operations experience across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including IAM, networking concepts, compute, storage, logging, monitoring, and secure configuration.
• 2+ years required:
  Security operations…