SOFTWARE ENGINEER - DevOps - 20+ yrs of Experience - TS/SCI w/Poly clearance is required - RC at RASPBERRRYCORE--Leidos
Annapolis Junction, MD
$232,000–$239,000
Jul 7, 2026
Annapolis Junction, MD
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior software engineering role with a strong DevOps orientation, focused on designing, developing, and maintaining complex software systems — including analytics, large-scale data processing, and real-time applications. The position spans the full development lifecycle, from writing and debugging code to cloud-native deployment, automation, and production support. Suited to an experienced engineer comfortable with both building software and owning it operationally.
Senior level · 20+ years · Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
Pay in the description: $232,000–$239,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $141,954 (middle half $107,994–$205,328). 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 (8)
The title says 'Software Engineer - DevOps', and the JD explicitly states the ideal candidate is 'a Software Engineer first' who is also comfortable with cloud-native deployments and DevOps activities — primary SOC is 15-1252 (Software Developers), with 15-1244 as a runner-up given the operational/infrastructure ownership emphasis.
The TS/SCI polygraph is a hard gate: the posting requires a current TS/SCI with a polygraph less than 5 years old. Annapolis Junction, MD is the NSA campus area, consistent with this requirement.
The degree requirement is effectively waived: the JD states a Bachelor's in CS or related field is required, but explicitly allows substitution of 4 additional years of SWE experience — making the degree non-mandatory in practice.
20 years of SWE experience is stated as a hard requirement. Despite this very high bar, the role's scope (team lead, technical lead of multiple teams) could suggest Staff level, but the JD reads as a staffing/contract vehicle posting where high year counts are common without implying org-wide architectural authority — classified as Senior.
The JD names no specific named technologies, languages, frameworks, or cloud platforms beyond generic references to 'cloud infrastructure', 'DevOps', and 'databases'. Skills are extracted at the highest specificity the posting supports; no tool names are invented.
On-call production support is explicitly required ('Candidate would be expected to be On call to support system operations').
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): algorithm development.
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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