DevOps Engineer
D2 Technical Services · Springfield, VA
$165,000–$175,000from the description
Jul 6, 2026
Springfield, VA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level DevOps role supporting intelligence community infrastructure, requiring an active TS/SCI clearance. Day-to-day work centers on building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automating deployment and configuration of platform services, and managing both on-premises and cloud environments using tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, GitLab, and Ansible. The role suits an experienced engineer comfortable with Linux, containerization, infrastructure-as-code, and security compliance in a classified setting.
Senior level · 5+ years · National · Bachelor's required · 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 $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). 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 (8)
No work location or metro area is specified in the posting; the role supports an Intelligence Community customer and requires an active TS/SCI clearance, suggesting an on-site or hybrid arrangement near a cleared facility, but no city or state is named.
The container platform requirement names Kubernetes, Docker, and OpenShift as interchangeable options ('such as'), with AWS called out as 'ideal knowledge' — AWS is treated as a hard gate given its placement in the required section, but the container platform alternatives are captured accordingly.
Infrastructure as Code is a hard gate; Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Ansible, Chef, and Puppet are all listed as acceptable alternatives ('one or more of').
GitLab CI/CD is the primary required pipeline tool; Jenkins and CircleCI appear in parentheses as supplementary knowledge ('knowledge of … or similar') but are still within the required section — captured as alternatives to the CI/CD skill.
The SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role writes automation code and IaC (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers) but also has a strong operational/administration flavor — managing environments, monitoring, patching, and compliance (pointing to 15-1244). The code-authoring emphasis (Python, Bash tooling, Helm, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines) tips the balance to 15-1252.
Nice-to-have items (system design/architecture, Configuration Management process, Agile delivery, certifications, systems engineering, NGA enterprise products) are listed under an explicit 'Nice to Have' heading and are marked as preferred.
The salary range of $165,000–$175,000 is stated as typical but not guaranteed, as compensation depends on multiple factors.
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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