DevOps Engineer (REMOTE) at Koniag Government Services
Chantilly, VA
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Jul 13, 2026
Chantilly, VA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A remote DevOps Engineer role supporting cloud modernization and cybersecurity automation for a U.S. federal health and human services agency. The work centers on building and maintaining GitLab CI/CD pipelines, managing infrastructure as code across AWS and Azure, and automating compliance and continuous-authorization processes. Well-suited to engineers with five or more years in DevOps or cloud engineering who have hands-on experience with federal security frameworks and tools such as Splunk, Tenable, and CrowdStrike.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · 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
Roughly 6,700 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 4,000–10,000
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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 (12)
The role is titled simply 'DevOps Engineer' with no seniority modifier, but the 5+ years requirement and the breadth of responsibilities (multi-cloud architecture, cATO/ATO automation, security integration, incident response) support a Senior classification.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role writes and ships IaC and pipeline code (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but also has a significant operational/monitoring dimension (continuous monitoring, 24x7 security ops, incident response) that could lean toward 15-1244. The code-authoring and automation-building duties are primary.
AWS and Azure are listed as 'and/or' — AWS is named first and appears more prominently; Azure is captured as an alternative. Both are hard-gated under the required experience section.
Splunk, Tenable, CrowdStrike, and CloudWatch are listed together as interchangeable observability/security tool examples in the required skills section; Splunk is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
Bash, Python, and PowerShell are listed as interchangeable scripting options in the required skills section.
Terraform is listed in the required skills section but explicitly softened ('experience with Terraform is also beneficial'), so it is treated as preferred.
Docker and Kubernetes appear under required skills framed as 'knowledge of' — a softer qualifier, but they are in the required skills block, so they are treated as hard gates per section-placement rules.
Agile/Scrum appears in the required skills block ('Familiarity with Agile Development Methodology, especially Scrum') and is retained as a required skill.
Desired/preferred skills include: GitLab Ultimate (DAST/SAST, compliance pipelines), compliance evidence automation, OMB M-21-31 log management, Datadog/Prometheus/Grafana, HashiCorp Vault/AWS Secrets Manager, Zero Trust, federal government IT experience, and cloud certifications (AWS DevOps Engineer, AWS Solutions Architect, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Azure Administrator).
The posting states candidates must be able to obtain a Public Trust — this is a suitability determination, not a formal US security clearance (Confidential/Secret/TS), so the clearance requirement is set to None.
No compensation figures are provided despite the posting noting 'Pay Type: Salary'.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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