Senior DevOps Engineer (Active TS/SCI Clearance) at Striveworks
Manassas, VA
$185,000–$230,000from the description
Jul 29, 2026
Manassas, VA
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Senior DevOps Engineer role at an AI platform company serving U.S. government and defense customers. The position involves building, deploying, and maintaining infrastructure across commercial, unclassified, CUI, and classified DoD networks, with a focus on Kubernetes-based microservices, infrastructure-as-code, and automation. Candidates must hold an active TS/SCI clearance and be based in the Northern Virginia area for a hybrid schedule with occasional travel.
Senior level · 6+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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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 $158,337 (middle half $126,441–$180,105). 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 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (10)
The role title is 'Senior DevOps Engineer' but the day-to-day work centers on writing automation/IaC code, building microservices infrastructure, and deploying software — consistent with Software Developers (15-1252) rather than pure systems administration (15-1244). The runner-up is 15-1244 given the significant operational and infrastructure-management emphasis.
Python and Golang are listed as interchangeable options ('Python and/or Golang') in the requirements block; Python is used as the primary name with Golang as the alternative.
Containerized environment troubleshooting implies Docker/container runtime experience; Docker is captured as a must-have derived from the 'containerized environments' requirement rather than a named tool — this is a minor inference.
'Cloud infrastructure' is listed as a required area but no specific cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) is named anywhere in the posting.
The CI/CD requirement appears only under the preferred ('nice to have') section, specifically in the context of GPU-enabled server deployments.
The Counterintelligence (CI) Scope Polygraph is listed as conditional ('if required'), not a hard gate; the hard gate is the active TS/SCI clearance and US citizenship.
NAS and SAN are listed as interchangeable storage technologies under the preferred section; NAS is used as the primary name with SAN as the alternative.
The position is hybrid (Northern Virginia area) with up to 10% travel; it is not fully remote.
Ignored 3 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): NIST SP 800-171, NIST SP 800-53, GPU server administration.
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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