DevOps Engineer
Game Plan Tech LLC · Reston, VA
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Jul 12, 2026
Reston, VA
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A DevOps engineering role focused on building and maintaining cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform, primarily for federal government clients. Day-to-day work involves infrastructure automation with Terraform and Ansible, container orchestration via Kubernetes, CI/CD pipeline management, and ensuring compliance with federal security standards. Best suited to candidates with hands-on GCP experience in regulated or government environments.
Mid level · 3+ years · National
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How this req sits in the market our data
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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).
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Why we read it this way (7)
The role is titled 'DevOps Engineer' with no level modifier, so advertised seniority is Unspecified. The 3+ years requirement and scope (designing and managing cloud infrastructure on a team) support a Mid-level classification.
SOC is a judgment call: the role emphasizes writing infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible), CI/CD pipelines, and container orchestration — work that ships automation code — which points to 15-1252 Software Developers. 15-1244 (Network/Systems Admins) is the runner-up given the federal ops and monitoring responsibilities.
Degree requirement is None: the JD accepts a 'commensurate technical certificate' as an alternative to a Bachelor's degree, so no formal degree is hard-gated.
GCP certification is listed as 'highly desired' in the Desired Qualifications section and therefore treated as preferred. Cloud certifications in architecture, data engineering, and ML appear under 'What we are looking for in a strong candidate,' also treated as preferred.
Federal environment experience and federal security/compliance knowledge are mentioned as desired qualifications but name no specific technology or tool, so they are not emitted as skills.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
No security clearance is explicitly required; the posting references federal compliance context but does not gate on holding or obtaining a clearance.
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