DevOps Engineers
Artera Technologies · Annapolis Junction / Fort Meade, MD
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Jul 22, 2026
Annapolis Junction / Fort Meade, MD
Jul 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A mid-to-senior-level Linux DevOps role supporting intelligence community infrastructure in the Fort Meade/Annapolis Junction area, requiring a TS/SCI clearance with polygraph. Day-to-day work centers on installing, configuring, and sustaining software tools in Linux environments, writing Bash/Python scripts, managing Kubernetes clusters on bare metal, and applying IaC tooling such as Ansible and Terraform. Suits engineers with hands-on container orchestration and CI/CD pipeline experience.
Senior level · 3+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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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 $158,337 (middle half $126,441–$180,105).
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 (9)
This posting covers three levels simultaneously (Level 1 / Mid: 3–6 yrs, Level 2 / Senior: 6–8 yrs, Level 3 / Principal: 8+ yrs). The title advertises all three, including 'Principal'; the overall years minimum is set to the lowest gate (3 years) since the posting is a single multi-level requisition. Seniority is assessed as Senior, reflecting the typical experienced hire this type of posting targets.
A TS/SCI with 'Appropriate Agency Polygraph' is explicitly required — this is a hard gate for a cleared IC program at the NSA/Fort Meade area.
A bachelor's degree is listed as the baseline requirement, but the posting explicitly states '5 additional years of relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree on some contracts,' so the degree requirement is set to None.
Bash and Python are listed together as a scripting requirement ('Bash/Python'); both are captured as separate skills with each listed as an alternative for the other, since either may satisfy the requirement.
Ansible and Puppet are listed together ('Ansible/Puppet knowledge'); Ansible is captured as the primary with Puppet as an alternative. Puppet also appears separately as preferred given the softer 'knowledge' framing versus the firmer 'requires' language used for Kubernetes.
SRE is listed under 'Familiarity with' — a softer framing than the rest of the skills section — so it is marked as preferred.
The role is located in the Annapolis Junction / Fort Meade area of Maryland, which falls within the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria CBSA.
SOC classification is 15-1252 (Software Developers) because the role centers on building and maintaining DevOps tooling, IaC automation, CI/CD pipelines, and scripting — shipping code and infrastructure — rather than purely operating existing systems. 15-1244 is noted as a plausible runner-up given the significant system administration and sustainment responsibilities.
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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