Devops Engineer IV at General Atomics
Charlottesville, VA
$98,100–$171,398from the description
Jul 21, 2026
Charlottesville, VA
Jul 22, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level DevOps role focused on building and leading a new operations and maintenance team for production intelligence and defense systems. Day-to-day work centers on managing Kubernetes-based deployments, CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, system hardening, and disaster recovery across multiple government customer environments. Suits an experienced engineer with active Top Secret/SCI clearance comfortable owning both technical infrastructure and some team-building responsibilities.
Senior level · 9+ years · Charlottesville, VA · Bachelor's required · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $131,346 (middle half $103,068–$165,276). 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 posting title is 'Cleared DevOps Lead' and the role involves overseeing hiring of a small DevOps team, but the JD frames this as a technical/hands-on lead rather than a people-management role with direct reports and budget ownership; classified as Senior IC (15-1252) rather than 11-3021.
The role sits between software development and systems operations — it writes and ships CI/CD pipelines, automation, and back-end software (pointing to 15-1252) but also maintains production infrastructure (pointing to 15-1244); 15-1252 was chosen as primary because the JD explicitly calls for developing software for back-end systems and improving the deployment pipeline.
Clearance requirement is explicitly stated as Top Secret with current SCI access and CI Polygraph.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's or Master's'; Bachelor's is captured as the minimum hard gate.
Kubernetes, Grafana, CI/CD, and Git appear in the required qualifications block and are marked as hard gates. Configuration management tools are required but no specific tool is named in the required section.
AWS, Helm, Helmfile, GitLab CI, Linux, Java, Trivy, and CompTIA Security+ all appear under 'Preferred Skills and Qualifications' or the 'tech stack peek' section and are marked as preferred.
The tech stack section explicitly notes 'Any extensive knowledge with these is a major plus,' confirming all items listed there are preferred, not required.
Requires a TS/SCI 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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