CI/CD Software Engineer with Clearance at Lockheed Martin
Colorado Springs, CO
$93,200–$164,450from the description
Jul 14, 2026
Colorado Springs, CO
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A DevOps/CI-CD engineering role supporting missile defense software delivery within a large agile program. Day-to-day work centers on building, maintaining, and troubleshooting GitLab and Jenkins pipelines, configuring automation with Ansible, and collaborating with development and testing teams to uphold DevOps and SDLC standards across development, test, and production environments. Suits engineers with hands-on pipeline and configuration-management experience who can obtain a Secret clearance.
Mid level · 3+ years · National · 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). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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 (8)
The role is genuinely ambiguous between Software Developers (15-1252) and Systems Administrators (15-1244): the primary work is building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling (pointing to 15-1252), but a significant portion involves operating and configuring existing DevOps infrastructure (pointing to 15-1244). 15-1252 was chosen as the primary code because the JD emphasizes writing automation, scripting, and pipeline development rather than pure operations.
GitLab and Jenkins are listed together as a single pipeline requirement ('using GitLab and Jenkins'); they are emitted as separate skills with each as an alternative for the other, since the JD treats them as a combined toolset rather than strict interchangeables — a candidate familiar with both is clearly preferred.
The degree requirement is listed as 'Bachelor's degree … or equivalent … or related experience in lieu of degree,' so no minimum degree is hard-gated.
Security+ certification is listed as 'must have or be willing to attain within 60 days' — treated as a hard gate since candidates who refuse to obtain it would be rejected.
DoD 8570/8140 certification compliance appears under Desired Skills and is therefore preferred, not required.
The salary range ($93,200–$164,450/year) is explicitly scoped to California, Massachusetts, New York (excluding most major metro areas), Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, Vermont, Washington, and Washington DC; other locations may differ.
No specific work location/city is stated in the posting; the role is onsite at a Lockheed Martin facility but the specific CBSA could not be determined.
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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