Software Engineer - CI/CD with active TS/SCI at Maania Consultancy Services
Herdon, VA
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Aug 6, 2026
Herdon, VA
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A CI/CD and Kubernetes-focused platform or SRE engineering role requiring an active TS/SCI clearance. The engineer will build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, operate container platforms, implement security controls in pipelines, and manage Kubernetes clusters end-to-end. The role suits someone with hands-on infrastructure-as-code and observability experience in a secure government or defense environment.
Mid level · 2+ years · Bachelor's required · TS/SCI clearance
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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 Aug 8, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The experience range of 2–10 years is unusually wide; the overall years minimum is set to 2 (the stated floor). The upper bound suggests the role could accommodate mid- to senior-level candidates, but the minimum gates at 2 years, so seniority is assessed as Mid.
GitLab CI is listed first among CI/CD pipeline tools followed by 'or similar'; Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps are captured as alternatives since any one satisfies the requirement.
Terraform is explicitly preferred among IaC tools ('Terraform preferred'), but the broader IaC requirement is a hard gate — Terraform is marked required with the understanding that another IaC tool could substitute; no other specific IaC tool is named.
Bash and Python are listed together as scripting options ('Bash and/or Python'); emitted as a single skill with Python as an alternative.
Observability tooling (Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Loki, Splunk, Datadog) is framed as 'Familiarity with' — a softer gate — and is marked preferred accordingly.
No work location is specified in the posting; CBSA and state fields are left blank. The TS/SCI clearance requirement strongly implies an on-site or US-based position.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role builds CI/CD pipelines and writes IaC/automation code (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but also has a significant infrastructure operations component (pointing to 15-1244). The primary emphasis on building pipelines and automation tips the classification to 15-1252.
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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