DevOps Engineer - $20K Sign-On Bonus - 29266 at Huntington Ingalls Industries
Augusta, GA
$100,173–$140,000from the description
Jul 9, 2026
Augusta, GA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A DevOps Engineer role supporting U.S. Army customers on-site in Augusta, GA, focused on building and maintaining cloud and on-premise infrastructure, automating deployments, and managing Kubernetes and AWS environments. The work involves configuration management, scripting, and integrating application teams into the infrastructure. Suited to candidates with a current TS/SCI with CI Polygraph clearance and solid Linux and AWS experience.
Senior level · 5+ years · Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC · TS/SCI 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 $122,414 (middle half $97,661–$161,270). 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 (11)
The title is 'DevOps Engineer' with no explicit seniority level word; the hashtag '#Mid-Senior Level' appears in the body but is metadata/tagging rather than a formal title framing, so the title states no level. The 5+ years minimum and scope of responsibilities support a Senior classification.
A current TS/SCI with CI Polygraph is a hard gate listed under Minimum Qualifications — this is the most restrictive clearance tier.
The DoD 8140/8570 compliance certification (e.g., Security+) is listed as required but the JD allows candidates to obtain it before starting; it is still treated as a hard gate since the candidate must hold it prior to employment.
Terraform and Ansible are listed together as examples of required configuration management tools ('such as Terraform, and Ansible') — both are captured as required with each other as an alternative, reflecting that either satisfies the configuration management gate.
Python, Bash, and Go are listed as interchangeable scripting/programming language options ('such as Python, Bash, or Go'); all three are captured as required with the others as alternatives.
Kubernetes is explicitly called out in the responsibilities ('Manage and maintain Kubernetes containers') and is implied as required by the overall role scope, even though it appears in the responsibilities section rather than a separate skills list.
The preferred section lists big data technologies (Hadoop, Spark, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Hive, Drill, Impala, Trino, Presto), EKS, and CI/CD — all marked as preferred. Trino/Presto/Impala/Drill are grouped as alternatives given their functional overlap in the SQL-on-Hadoop space.
The role is strictly on-site in Augusta, GA, 5 days a week — remote is false.
Degree requirement is None because the JD offers multiple equivalent paths including a High School Diploma with 9 years of experience, meaning no specific degree is hard-required.
SOC confidence is Medium: the role writes and ships infrastructure automation code (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but also has a significant systems administration and operations flavor (15-1244). The code-writing emphasis (Python/Bash/Go, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD) tips the balance to 15-1252.
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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