DevOps Engineer

Base-2 Solutions


Date: 16 hours ago
City: Bethesda, MD
Salary: $160,203.3 - $213,604.38 per year
Contract type: Full time
Required Security Clearance

Top Secret/SCI, Top Secret/SCI with CI Polygraph

City

Bethesda

State/Territory

Maryland

Travel

None

Potential For Teleworking

No

Schedule

Full Time

DoD 8570 IAT Requirement

None

DoD 8570 IAM Requirement

None

DoD 8570 IASAE Requirement

None

DoD CSSP Requirement

None

Last Updated

10/15/25 8:30 PM

Requisition ID

416070

US Citizenship Required?:

Yes

Pay Range

$160,203.29 to $213,604.38

Work Type

Hybrid (On-Site and Remote)

Referral Eligibility

Eligible

Job Description

  • To deploy, triage and maintain a production big data pipeline using a microservice architecture running on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch backend, and Kafka messaging.
  • Enhance, improve, and maintain CI/CD and DevOps scripts and processes to facilitate faster development, quicker error detection and resilient deployments.
  • Design, develop, and support scalable, redundant infrastructure to include physical and virtualized environments.
  • Use Helm to configure Kubernetes deployments to support new feature requirements.
  • Collaborate with System Engineers to design solutions for new features and requirements.
  • Provide technical input to systems engineering documentation and diagrams/models working in coordination/collaboration with SE team members and Architect team.
  • Participate in Agile release planning, scrum of scrums, bug triage, design sessions and other meetings.

Required Skills

  • BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience with 8+ years in software development, system engineering or related field. 6+ years of experience with Master’s degree.
  • Must have an active Top Secret/ SCI security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance.
  • Knowledgeable in navigating Linux OS.
  • Experienced with container / container orchestration, specifically Kubernetes.
  • Skilled with CI/CD pipeline orchestration and the use of Gitlab.
  • Comfortable with Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana.
  • Demonstrated ability to participate in cross-functional planning, coordination, and task execution.

Desired Skills

  • Experience with systems at scale.
  • Experience/knowledge of key Agile processes and techniques.
  • Experience with development, i.e. Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, Java, etc.
  • Experience on a production/ enterprise system.
  • Experience with any of the following technologies:
    • Kafka or other message passing systems (AMQP, JMS)
    • Kubernetes monitoring, e.g., Prometheus/ Graphana
    • GPU-based Kubernetes
    • SALT for deployment automation
    • Helm and Helmfile
    • Nexus
Pay & Benefit Highlights

Compensation

  • Above market fixed salary or hourly pay.
  • Up to $10,000 bonus for each referral.
  • Additional bonuses for exceptional performance, assisting with business development and company growth.

Health

  • 100% paid premiums for health insurance. Choose from over 80 gold-level medical plans from Aetna, CareFirst, Kaiser and UnitedHealthcare. Choose from PPO, EPO, POS, HMO, and HSA-compatible.
  • HSA and FSA options.
  • 100% paid premiums for dental insurance.
  • 100% paid premiums for vision insurance.

Income Protection

  • 100% paid premiums for short-term disability.
  • 100% paid premiums for long-term disability.
  • 100% paid premiums for accidental death & dismemberment.
  • 100% paid premiums for life insurance with a $200,000 max benefit.

Retirement

  • 8% company contribution to 401k with immediate vesting.
  • 401k pre-tax and Roth options.

Leave

  • Up to 20 days of flexible paid time off (PTO).
  • 11 days of paid floating holidays.

Work-Life Balance

  • Flexible work schedules including flex time and compressed work period.
  • Remote work including partial or fully remote (contract and project-dependent).

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Equal Opportunity Employer

Base-2 Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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