Senior DevOps / System Administrator at GRVTY
Sterling, VA
$130,000–$225,000
Aug 4, 2026
Sterling, VA
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A DevSecOps/CI/CD engineer role supporting Intelligence Community mission management web applications on a cleared government contract based in Williamsburg, VA. The position centers on designing, building, and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitLab, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform, while integrating security scanning (SAST/DAST) and ensuring compliance with federal/DoD security controls. Suits a mid-to-senior level engineer with active TS/SCI clearance and a full-scope polygraph.
Senior level · 4+ years · Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC · Bachelor's required · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
Pay in the description: $130,000–$225,000
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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 $131,929 (middle half $101,412–$164,081). 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 Aug 6, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The posting conflates two roles — a 'Senior Full Stack Developer' in the opening and a 'Mid-Sr. DevSecOps/CI/CD Engineer' in the body. The actual requirements and responsibilities describe a DevSecOps/CI/CD pipeline engineer, so the role is classified accordingly.
The Williamsburg, VA location maps to the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News CBSA; Williamsburg is within that metro. If the role is actually in the Richmond or DC metro, the CBSA may need adjustment.
The clearance gate is stated as 'active or current Top-Secret clearance with SCI access with a FS/Poly no exceptions,' making TS/SCI with full-scope polygraph a hard requirement. The 'Nice to Have' section separately lists an active FSP as preferred, but the hard gate already covers this.
Security+ is listed as 'willing and able to obtain' — treated as a soft/preferred requirement rather than a hard gate since the candidate need not already hold it.
Ansible and PowerShell appear together under required experience as alternatives for automated configuration; both are also listed in the broader CI/CD tools list. PowerShell/Bash/Python are listed as scripting options — Python and Bash are captured separately given their distinct use contexts.
Java, Python, and React appear only under 'What Would be Nice to Have' and are marked preferred.
The 4-year minimum for CI/CD pipeline design is the highest role-level experience figure stated and is used as the overall years minimum; the posting also cites '3 or more years of DevSecOps experience' and '2+ years' for specific tools.
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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