Lead DevOps Engineer - Texas Remote
Serco · El Paso, TX
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Jul 21, 2026
El Paso, TX
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level infrastructure engineering role on a U.S. Air Force modeling and simulation contract, requiring an active Secret clearance. The position centers on designing and maintaining Terraform-based infrastructure, AWS ECS container orchestration, Docker build pipelines, and CI/CD automation, while also serving as a technical mentor who actively develops the skills of other DevOps and platform engineers through code review, pairing, and knowledge-sharing practices. Suits an experienced engineer equally comfortable hands-on and coaching others.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Secret clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The posting references a 'Department of War (DoW) Secret security clearance' — this appears to be an internal/legacy label for a standard DoD Secret clearance; treated as a Secret clearance gate.
The role is titled 'Lead DevOps Engineer' with no explicit seniority level word (Senior, Staff, etc.) in the title, so advertised seniority is Unspecified. The 8-year requirement and mentorship/technical-lead scope support a Senior classification.
No work location city or state is specified; the posting states full-time telecommute (remote). CBSA fields are left blank accordingly.
A Bachelor's degree is listed but the JD explicitly accepts 'additional years of relevant experience in lieu of degree,' so the degree requirement is set to None.
AWS core services (VPC, IAM, ALB/NLB, CloudWatch, ECR, Route 53) are listed under the required qualifications block as a group; ALB/NLB is omitted as a separate skill since it is a sub-feature of AWS networking rather than a distinct named product, while the others are captured individually.
CI/CD pipeline tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CodePipeline) are listed as interchangeable alternatives in the requirements section; captured as one required skill with alternatives.
Policy-as-code tools (Sentinel, OPA/Conftest), container security scanning tools (Trivy, Snyk, Aqua), and observability stacks (Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog) appear under 'Preferred Qualifications' and are marked accordingly.
Prior experience supporting AFMS or other DoD M&S programs is 'strongly desired' — this is domain experience rather than a named technology and is therefore not captured as a skill.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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