DevOps Engineer 3 at Wyetech
Annapolis Junction, MD
$114,878–$267,322
Jul 14, 2026
Annapolis Junction, MD
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior DevOps engineering role supporting a modernized federal government operational system. Day-to-day work centers on building and maintaining AWS infrastructure with Terraform, managing Kubernetes-based container orchestration, operating GitLab and Argo CD pipelines, and hardening RHEL systems for compliance — all within a SCIF environment. Suits experienced engineers holding an active TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph.
Senior level · 9+ years · Remote · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
Pay in the description: $55.23–$128.52/hr
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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 $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). 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 job posting explicitly states work must be performed in a SCIF with 'little to no work from home.' The caller has overridden this to remote=true; the candidate pool is treated as national per caller instruction.
The clearance requirement is TS/SCI with an agency-appropriate polygraph (CI poly within the last 7 years), which is a hard gate stated in Required Qualifications.
The degree requirement is a Bachelor's in a related discipline OR equivalent experience/combined education — equivalent experience is explicitly accepted, so the degree requirement is set to None.
Experience requirement: 9+ years of professional experience, or 7+ years with a related Master's degree. The minimum (9 years without a Master's, 7 with) maps to the overall years minimum of 9 as the stated floor without an advanced degree.
The 'Desired Technical Skills' section is labeled '(Must Have 2 of the Below),' meaning candidates must satisfy at least two of those items. The individual sub-skills (specific AWS services, VPC networking, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes/EKS/ECS/Fargate) are therefore conditionally required rather than individually hard-gated; they are marked preferred to reflect that no single one is a standalone rejection criterion.
The role title is not given in the posting; seniority is assessed from the 9-year experience floor and the scope of responsibilities (infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, cloud platform management), which supports a Senior band.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role is framed as a DevOps/platform engineer who both writes automation code (IaC, scripting, CI/CD pipelines) and operates infrastructure, placing it between 15-1252 Software Developers and 15-1244 Network and Computer Systems Administrators. The emphasis on coding (Python, Terraform, Ansible, pipeline development) tips the primary classification to 15-1252.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): TS/SCI with polygraph.
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.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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