Devops Engineer III at General Atomics
Charlottesville, VA
$81,080–$141,650from the description
Jul 21, 2026
Charlottesville, VA
Jul 22, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A mid-level DevOps role focused on configuring, deploying, and maintaining development, testing, and production environments for data-intensive situational awareness systems serving defense and intelligence customers. Day-to-day work spans CI/CD pipeline management, container orchestration with Kubernetes, system hardening, monitoring, and automation tooling. An active Top Secret/SCI clearance with CI Poly is required.
Mid level · 5+ 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 (7)
The posting title is 'Cleared DevOps Engineer' with no seniority modifier, but the body labels the experience level 'Mid-Level (3-7 years)' while the qualifications state 'five years of related experience' — advertised seniority is treated as Unspecified (no level word in the title), and the actual requirements support a Mid-level band.
The role requires a current TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph, which is a hard gate explicitly stated in the clearance level field.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role builds and deploys automation, microservices, and CI/CD tooling (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but also has a significant system administration and operations flavor (15-1244). The emphasis on building tools, microservices, and back-end software tips the balance toward 15-1252.
Configuration management tools are listed as a required skill in the qualifications section but no specific tool is named there; Puppet is named only under Preferred Skills and is therefore marked preferred.
CompTIA Security+ is listed under Preferred Skills and is framed as a certification or willingness to obtain — not extracted as a named technology skill.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's or Master's degree' — Bachelor's is the minimum hard-required degree; equivalent experience is not offered as a substitute.
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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