DevOps Engineer II at Sierra Nevada Company, LLC
Lone Tree, CO
$82,039–$112,804from the description
Jul 6, 2026
Lone Tree, CO
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A mid-level DevOps role focused on building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure within an aerospace and defense environment. Day-to-day work involves automating deployment workflows, managing cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure, containerization, scripting, and ensuring security and compliance across systems. An active Secret clearance is required, with a Top Secret clearance needed for employment.
Mid level · 2+ years · National · Top Secret clearance · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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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 (10)
The posting lists a Secret clearance in the 'Qualifications You Must Have' section, but the 'Important Notice' section later states the role requires the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance. The higher requirement (Top Secret) is used here as the hard gate.
No work location is specified in the posting; the CBSA is left blank. The role appears to be office or hybrid (not fully remote) based on the essential functions description.
The degree requirement is effectively None: the JD explicitly states that relevant experience can substitute for the degree, and that 6 years of experience suffices in the absence of a degree.
The 'II' in the title 'DevOps Engineer II' signals a Mid-level role, consistent with the 2+ years minimum experience requirement.
CI/CD tools are listed with 'e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD' — these are named as examples of an interchangeable requirement, so Jenkins is the primary skill with GitLab CI as an alternative. The broader CI/CD pipeline requirement is also captured separately.
Scripting languages (Bash, PowerShell, Python, AWS CLI, Azure CLI) are all listed together under required qualifications with 'or' framing; they are captured as separate skills with alternatives where appropriate, reflecting that the JD treats them as a group of interchangeable options.
Infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, ARM Templates, Chef, Puppet) and YAML-based CI/CD pipeline tools appear only under 'Qualifications We Prefer' and are marked accordingly.
Security scanning tools (Checkmarx, Fortify, SonarQube, Aqua, Twistlock) appear only under preferred qualifications.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role builds and ships CI/CD pipelines and automation code (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but also has a meaningful infrastructure operations and monitoring component that could support 15-1244.
Requires a Top 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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