DevOps Engineer Job Fairfax Station Virginia USA,IT/Tech

Location: Fairfax Station

Dev Ops Engineer

Location: Fairfax, VA

Clearance: Active Top Secret Clearance (Highly Qualified Uncleared Candidates Considered)

Compensation: $130,000 - $215,000 Base Salary + 50% Additional Employer-Funded Compensation

Total Package Value: Up to $322,500

Benefits

Employer-funded 401(k) contribution worth 25% of base salary
Flexible benefits allowance worth 25% of base salary (can be taken as benefits or additional compensation)
Up to 8 weeks PTO
Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
Life Insurance
100% tuition reimbursement (Degrees, Certifications & Professional Development)
Flexible working hours
Long-term, mission-critical programs supporting the US Intelligence Community

The Opportunity

We’re working with a highly respected technology organization supporting some of the most complex and security-sensitive environments in the US Government space. Due to continued program growth, they are looking to add a Dev Ops Engineer to their team in either Fairfax, VA or Aurora, CO. You’ll play a key role supporting application deployment, automation and cloud infrastructure initiatives, helping development teams deliver solutions faster, more reliably and at greater scale.

This position offers exposure to modern cloud-native technologies, container orchestration platforms and large-scale enterprise environments, making it an excellent opportunity for someone looking to work on cutting‑edge infrastructure and deployment challenges.

What You’ll Be Doing

Supporting application migration and deployment within cloud-focused environments
Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to improve software delivery
Working with container technologies and orchestration platforms
Developing automation solutions to eliminate manual processes
Supporting monitoring, observability and performance optimisation initiatives
Assisting engineering teams with deployment strategies and infrastructure design
Managing storage, backup and recovery solutions
Helping maximise infrastructure efficiency and platform scalability

What We’re Looking For

Experience with container technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker or containerd
Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines using Git Lab, Jenkins or similar
Experience with Linux environments
Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
Experience with scripting, software development or automation engineering
Experience building tools and processes to automate repetitive operational tasks
Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities

Desirable Experience

Cloud-native infrastructure and architecture
Microservices design and deployment
OpenEBS, Gluster or similar storage technologies
Elastic or similar metrics and logging platforms
Agile software development environments
Experience supporting large-scale enterprise deployments

Clearance

Active Top Secret clearance is highly desirable, however highly qualified candidates without an active clearance will also be considered.

Keywords

Dev Ops Engineer, Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, SRE, Kubernetes, Docker, Containerd, Git Lab, Jenkins, CI/CD, Linux Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Automation Engineer, Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic, Microservices, Cloud Native, Platform Engineering, Top Secret Clearance, Intelligence Community, Defense, Government Contracting.

Location:

Fairfax, Virginia | Salary: $130000 - $215000 per year | Job type:
Permanent | Posted: 12/06/2026

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