DevOps Engineer at GRVTY
St. Louis, MO
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Jul 14, 2026
St. Louis, MO
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior DevOps role supporting an intelligence community customer, focused on managing and automating cloud and on-premises infrastructure. Day-to-day work covers CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, system monitoring, security compliance, and environment administration across development, staging, and production. Suited to an experienced engineer with an active TS/SCI clearance and a background in Kubernetes, GitLab, and scripting.
Senior level · 8+ years · St. Louis, MO-IL · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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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 $131,867 (middle half $103,906–$159,758).
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 (9)
The role has two possible work locations: St. Louis, MO and Springfield, VA. St. Louis is used as the primary CBSA; Springfield, VA falls within the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV CBSA (47900).
TS/SCI is a hard gate; the ability to obtain a CI Polygraph is additionally required but not yet held.
The degree requirement states 'Degree in a relevant area and 8+ years of relevant experience, additional years of experience can offset degree requirement' — because experience can substitute for the degree, degree requirement is treated as not hard-gated.
Kubernetes, Docker, and OpenShift are listed together as interchangeable container platforms; Kubernetes is emitted as the primary with Docker and OpenShift as alternatives, and Docker is also emitted separately since the JD names all three as a group rather than strict substitutes.
GitLab is listed under required qualifications with 'or other DevOps/Continuous Integration tools', making it a hard gate on CI/CD tooling with GitLab as the named primary; common alternatives are captured.
Shell scripting is subsumed under Bash as they are effectively the same skill in this context.
The role blends infrastructure operations (on-prem/cloud administration, monitoring, log management) with automation/IaC coding (Python/Bash scripting, CI/CD pipeline development, Kubernetes deployments), making the SOC classification a genuine judgment call between 15-1252 (Software Developers) and 15-1244 (Systems Administrators). The emphasis on automation, pipeline building, and scripting tips the primary classification to 15-1252.
SAFe/Scrum methodology and on-call support are mentioned as requirements but name no specific technology tool, so they are omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
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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