Senior DevOps Engineer - 28028 at Wyetech
San Antonio, TX
$114,878–$267,322
Jul 6, 2026
San Antonio, TX
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on DevOps engineering role focused on building and maintaining cloud and on-premise infrastructure for a federal government customer, working on-site in San Antonio, TX five days a week. Day-to-day work centers on Kubernetes/EKS cluster management, AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipeline automation, configuration management with Terraform and Ansible, and production monitoring. The role also carries a mentorship and technical leadership component, and requires an active TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph.
Senior level · 9+ years · San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
Pay in the description: $55.23–$128.52/hr
Advertised as Mid, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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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 $131,254 (middle half $103,221–$158,194). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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 (10)
The hashtag '#Mid-Senior Level' in the posting body is the only advertised level signal; the formal title is simply 'DevOps Engineer' with no explicit seniority word, so advertised seniority is read as Mid (the lower of the two hashtag labels). The actual requirements (9+ years, tech-lead duties, mentorship) support a Senior classification.
Experience requirement has three paths: 9+ years with a Bachelor's, 7 years with a Master's, or 13 years with a High School diploma/equivalent. The minimum across all paths is 7 years, but the standard (Bachelor's) path gates at 9 years — 9 is used as the overall years minimum as the most common case; no specific degree is hard-required because equivalent experience is explicitly accepted.
Terraform and Ansible are listed together as examples of required configuration management tools ('such as Terraform and Ansible'). Both are marked required because they are named under the Required Technical Skills heading, but each is listed as an alternative to the other since the 'such as' framing implies either satisfies the category.
Python, Bash, and Go are listed as interchangeable programming language options ('such as Python, Bash, or Go'). All three are named under Required Technical Skills; Python and Bash are emitted as separate required skills (each with the others as alternatives) per the role's emphasis on both scripting and programming. Go is captured as an alternative.
Git and Flux appear under Required Technical Skills with the qualifier 'familiarity with' — however, they sit within the hard-requirements section, so they are treated as required gates. The 'familiarity with' phrasing is noted here as a mild softener.
EBS is listed among required AWS services in the posting ('EKS, EC2, EBS, S3, Lambda') but is omitted as a standalone skill since it is a storage attachment feature of EC2 rather than a separately-marketed service with its own skill signal; the other four are retained.
The 'Desired Technical Skills' section explicitly labels big data technologies (Hadoop, Accumulo, Ceph, Spark, NiFi, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Hive, Drill, Impala, Trino/Presto) and a second mention of EKS, Diode, CI/CD, and Terraform as preferred/nice-to-have. CI/CD and Terraform are already captured as required from the primary section; the big data tools are marked preferred.
An active TS/SCI clearance with an agency-appropriate polygraph is explicitly required by the posting.
The role is fully on-site in San Antonio, TX, five days a week — remote work is not available.
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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