Senior DevSecOps Engineer (ML Infrastructure) at Oslitandi Tech LLC
Washington, DC
$187,200–$218,400
Jul 28, 2026
Washington, DC
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role designs, builds, and maintains end-to-end MLOps and DevSecOps pipelines for DoD environments spanning multiple classification levels (IL5/IL6) and government cloud platforms. Day-to-day work involves hardening and administering Kubernetes clusters to DoD STIGs, writing infrastructure-as-code, integrating automated security scanning into CI/CD workflows, and developing automation tooling in Python or Go.
Senior level · 5+ years · Bachelor's required · Top Secret clearance
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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).
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 is classified as Secret/TS-eligible — the posting says 'Secret / TS Clearance', which is ambiguous between Secret and Top Secret. TopSecret is used here as the higher (and more restrictive) gate stated; candidates holding an active Secret may also qualify.
Kubeflow and MLflow are listed together in the responsibilities narrative as illustrative tools, not in a hard-requirements block — marked preferred accordingly.
Ansible appears only in the responsibilities narrative alongside Terraform; Terraform is explicitly called out as required in the qualifications block while Ansible is not, so Ansible is marked preferred.
Istio and Linkerd appear only in the responsibilities narrative as examples ('such as') — marked preferred.
AWS GovCloud and Azure appear only in the responsibilities narrative as environment context — marked preferred.
DoD Iron Bank compliance appears in the responsibilities narrative as an outcome, not a standalone required skill — marked preferred.
CKA and AWS Certified Solutions Architect are explicitly called 'preferred' in the qualifications block.
The SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role writes substantial automation/IaC code (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers) but also has significant Kubernetes administration and infrastructure operations duties (pointing to 15-1244). The code-writing and pipeline-building responsibilities are judged primary.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): DoD 8570 IAT Level II (Security+).
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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