Sr. DevOps (8-12 yrs) at Advanced Space
Westminster, CO
$125,000–$145,000from the description
Jul 21, 2026
Westminster, CO
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior infrastructure role focused on designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, scalable cloud environments — primarily AWS — across multiple programs. Day-to-day work spans CI/CD pipeline ownership, Infrastructure as Code, observability tooling, incident response, and driving DevOps standards. The position suits an experienced engineer comfortable providing technical leadership, contributing to compliance and DR/HA design, and working on-site full-time with an active Top Secret clearance.
Senior level · 8+ years · Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO · 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 $140,636 (middle half $126,359–$175,118). 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 posting has a likely typo in the max salary: '$145,00' — interpreted as $145,000.
The role is classified as Software Developers (15-1252) because the primary work involves designing, building, and owning CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and cloud infrastructure automation — i.e., shipping infrastructure code — rather than purely operating existing systems. 15-1244 (Network/Systems Admins) is noted as a runner-up given the strong operational and monitoring emphasis.
A Top Secret clearance is explicitly required ('Top Secret Security Clearance required'). The posting does not specify TS/SCI, so TopSecret is used rather than TopSecretSci.
The degree requirement states 'B.S. required OR equivalent professional work experience required,' which means equivalent experience is accepted in lieu of a degree — the degree requirement is set to None accordingly.
Cloud Professional certification (AWS/Azure/GCP DevOps Pro) is listed under Required Skills but is framed as 'OR demonstrated enterprise infra leadership,' making it a soft gate; it is captured via the AWS/Azure/GCP skills rather than as a standalone certification skill.
AWS SCP (Service Control Policies) and AWS Organizations concepts are called out explicitly in the narrative; captured as 'AWS Organizations' under required skills.
DR/HA design and compliance automation are listed under Required Skills; captured as 'DR/HA design' since no specific tool is named.
Blue/green deployments and chaos engineering appear only in a learning-goals context, not as hard gates, and name no specific tool — omitted per the no-generic-concepts rule.
The role is on-site 5 days/week in Westminster, CO (Denver metro CBSA).
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): DR/HA design.
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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