Senior DevOps Engineer

About this role

Work location: Annapolis Junction, MD

Work arrangement: Up to 1 day/week telework, as tasking permits

Required Clearance: TS/SCI with polygraph

Applicants must currently hold an active TS/SCI with polygraph. Ctrl+ does not sponsor new security clearances or clearance upgrades. Applicants who do not meet this requirement cannot be considered.

Location & In-Person Requirement

All positions require in-person work. Applicants must live within commuting distance of the listed work location to be considered. Some roles may allow limited telework, but regular on-site attendance is required. These are not fully remote positions.

Your next challenge

Keep modern applications ready for real-world use. Automate deployments, improve infrastructure, and help resolve the issues that matter to users.

The mission

Support the modernization and sustainment of mission reporting applications through secure engineering, accessible interfaces and reliable software delivery.

What you’ll do

• Deploy applications and configure complex software

• Manage servers and technology tools

• Monitor performance and availability

• Troubleshoot issues and outages

• Maintain infrastructure automation

• Participate in rotating emergency on-call support

What you’ll bring

• 8 years of relevant experience. Science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) education is listed; required degree level must be confirmed.

• Linux

• AWS and virtual machines

• Docker Swarm

• Distributed web application deployments and GitLab CI/CD

• Terraform and VM provisioning

• Ansible

• Docker and Docker Compose

• Git

• Rotating emergency 24/7 pager support is required, roughly one week every four to six weeks.

Preferred qualifications

• Python

• NiFi

• Elasticsearch

• Java/Spring Boot log troubleshooting

• HAProxy

• MongoDB

Compensation and flexibility

$84.31–$109.52 per hour in approximate pay; employer 401(k) contribution is additional.

Compensation: The listed range reflects approx...