Senior 5G DevOps Engineer at Peraton
College Park, MD
$176,000–$282,000from the description
Aug 9, 2026
College Park, MD
Sep 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on senior DevOps/infrastructure engineer role supporting a cleared research program at a customer facility near College Park, MD. The work centers on deploying, automating, and sustaining 5G/4G telecom testbeds and cloud-native experimentation platforms, including containerized environments, CI/CD pipelines, network infrastructure, and virtualization stacks. The role suits an experienced engineer comfortable operating across Linux systems, networking, and telecom prototype environments in a classified government setting.
Senior level · 14+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · Top Secret clearance · Full-time
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What the occupation pays Median $158,337 (middle half $126,441–$180,105). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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Why we read it this way (7)
The role is a genuine hybrid between software/DevOps engineering (building CI/CD pipelines, scripting, containerization) and infrastructure/systems operations (network configuration, virtualization, lab management). 15-1252 was chosen because the JD emphasizes writing automation, scripts, and deploying software systems, but 15-1244 is a credible alternative given the heavy network and infrastructure operations content.
The clearance requirement is stated as an active Top Secret with the ability to obtain TS/SCI with polygraph — the hard gate is Top Secret; TS/SCI w/Poly is listed as a future requirement to obtain, not a current gate.
Experience minimums vary by degree level (14 years BS, 12 years MS, 9 years PhD, 18 years without a degree); 14 years is used as the baseline total experience minimum since no degree is strictly required.
The posting contains several apparent typos ('softeare system imstallation', 'privisioning', 'Pupet', 'Docker Comose', 'OpenTofu') — these were interpreted by their obvious intended meaning.
Scripting languages (Python, Bash, C/C++, Java, Go) are listed as a single 'or similar' requirement in the required section; Python is used as the primary skill name with the others captured as alternatives.
All 'Desired Additional Skills' items are marked as preferred, including 4G/5G telecom platforms, specific CI/CD tools, automation tools, virtualization platforms, and monitoring tools.
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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