DevOps Engineer, Sr.

Overview

Abile Group has an exciting and challenging opportunity for a DevOps Engineer, Sr. on a 10 year contract providing User Facing and Data Center Services supporting an Intelligence Community customer. All the personnel on the team will work together to support innovative design, engineering, procurement, implementation, operations, sustainment and disposal of user facing and data center information technology (IT) services on multiple networks and security domains, at multiple locations worldwide, to support the IC mission.

The right candidate will possess the below skills and qualifications and be ready to handle all responsibilities independently and professionally.

Responsibilities

• Automates and optimizes service deployments.
• Integrates with enterprise authentication services.
• Establishes and Improves system monitoring while maintaining established security protocols within development, test, and production systems.
• Architects, builds and maintains On-Prem and cloud infrastructure to support team and customer initiatives.
• Maintains and improves existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc.)
• Administers production, staging and development environments.
• Manages and aggregates server logs and monitors for security and system related incidents.
• Monitors and analyzes system performance, such as server load and resource usage.
• Maintains and improves existing build and deployment processes using CI/CD tools.
• Applies configuration management disciplines to maintain software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation.
• Enforces best practices for security and reliability, and drives security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing.
• Works with A&A Teams to maintain security requirements for operation of systems.
• Maintains documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks.
• Follows up on engineering tasks for operational solutions, and validates completion.
• Manages operational readiness board - presents at weekly meetings and determines if development services are ready for automation based on best practices and maintainability.
• Tracks and ensures routine operations maintenance tasks are completed in a timely manner.
• Participates in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings.
• On-call support will be required.

Qualifications

Clearance Required: TS/SCI with ability to obtain a CI Poly.

Degree and Years of Experience: Bachelor's Degree or an equivalent combination of years of experience and education.

• 8+ years of experience.

Required Skills:

• Experience working with container images and platforms (Kubernetes/Docker/OpenShift)
• Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes.
• Understanding of GitLab or other DevOps/Continuous Integration tools.
• Understanding of microservice design and architectural pattern best practices.
• Understanding of Python, Bash, and Shell scripting.
• Knowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design.
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Must possess excellent time management skills and the drive to work unsupervised.
• Experience with deploying On-Prem infrastructure.
• US Citizenship Required.

Desired Skills:

• Experience in building processes for deploying to a Kubernetes based environment using Gitlab and Helm.
• Understanding of access management and security groups (i.e. IAM, S3 bucket, SSH, VPN, etc.)
• Ability to write and use unit and functional testing.
• Experience using Jira and Confluence.

About Abile Group, Inc.

Abile Group, founded in July 2004 to support the Intelligence Community and its contractors across Enterprise Analytics, IT & Systems Engineering, and Program & Project Management, merged with Valiant Solutions in January 2026 - an established provider of cybersecurity technologies and services for Federal Agencies since 2005. Together, this partnership creates a stronger, more integrated cybersecurity organization with expanded opportunities for employees, deeper technical collaboration, and a unified mission. With significant experience serving the Federal Government, we remain dedicated to our employees and clients and seek high-performing professionals who excel at providing guidance, developing solutions, and delivering implementation support that blends industry best practices with client expertise and Abile’s broad technical capabilities.

Hiring Statement

Abile is committed to hiring the most qualified and best fit person for the job - always has, always will. Anyone requiring reasonable accommodations should email [email protected] with requested details. A member of the HR team will respond to your request within 2 business days.

Please review our current job openings and apply for the positions you believe may be a fit. If you are not an immediate fit, we will also keep your resume in our database for future opportunities.