Mid-Level DevSecOps Engineer (Redstone Arsenal)
LaunchTech · Huntsville, AL
$135,000–$160,000
Jun 30, 2026
Huntsville, AL
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A mid-level DevSecOps engineer role supporting the Missile Defense Agency at Redstone Arsenal, focused on designing, deploying, and maintaining cloud and container-based infrastructure across Kubernetes platforms including AKS, ECS, and OpenShift. Day-to-day work spans cloud migration, infrastructure-as-code tooling, container hardening to DoD compliance standards, CI/CD pipeline management, and database administration. Suited to experienced engineers with a security clearance and a background in system integration and cloud-native environments.
Senior level · 12+ years · Huntsville, AL · Secret clearance · Full-time
Advertised as Mid, 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 $130,897 (middle half $102,526–$165,828).
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 (8)
The posting is titled 'Mid-Level DevSecOps Engineer' but the requirements — 12+ years of general experience, 6+ years of directly related DevSecOps/Kubernetes experience, and 1+ year in a management/leadership role — clearly support a Senior-level classification. The advertised level and the actual requirements are misaligned.
The 6+ years of directly related experience requirement is stated against 'system integration, with a focus on DevSecOps practices or Kubernetes' — this is captured as the years demanded on the Kubernetes skill as the primary named technology, with the broader DevSecOps framing reflected in the overall years minimum.
AWS, Azure, and Red Hat OpenShift are listed together as a single 'must be proficient in cloud platforms such as…' requirement; AWS is used as the primary name with Azure and Red Hat OpenShift as alternatives.
Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Bash, AKS, ECS, OpenShift, and the database technologies (PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MySQL) appear in the narrative 'What You'll Be Doing' section rather than the explicit 'Basic Requirements' block, so they are marked as preferred rather than hard gates.
DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification (Security+) is explicitly required in the Basic Requirements section.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
The role is on-site at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, AL; no remote option is mentioned.
Requires a 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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