DevOps Engineer

Description

QVine, an SAIC company is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our team. This role combines hands-on technical expertise with leadership responsibilities, overseeing project development while contributing to the development and maintenance of cloud-based applications and/or services. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable writing code, architecting infrastructure, and guiding a team toward delivering reliable, scalable solutions.

This position is located in Reston, VA and requires an active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph to be considered.

Key Responsibilities:

• Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and manage a team of DevOps engineers and developers, fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and accountability.

• Project Management: Plan, coordinate, and drive development and infrastructure projects from inception through delivery, ensuring timely execution and alignment with business goals.

• Web Application Development: Contribute to and oversee the design, development, and deployment of web applications using modern frameworks and best practices.

• Cloud Infrastructure Management: Architect, deploy, and maintain cloud environments across AWS and Azure, ensuring high availability, security, and cost efficiency.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Design and implement infrastructure automation using Terraform and Packer, promoting reproducible, version-controlled infrastructure deployments.

• CI/CD Pipeline Development: Build and maintain robust continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines to streamline code deployment and reduce release cycles.

• Security & Compliance: Collaborate with cybersecurity team to embed best practices into the DevOps lifecycle, including secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and compliance automation.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.

• Bachelors and 14 years or more experience; Masters and 12 years or more experience; PhD or JD and 9 years or more experience.

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, site reliability engineering, or a related field.

• 3+ years of hands-on development experience building and deploying web applications (e.g., using JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Go, Java, or similar languages).

• 3+ years of experience working with AWS and Azure cloud platforms, including core services (compute, networking, storage, identity management).

• Strong proficiency with Terraform and Packer for infrastructure provisioning and image management.

• 2+ years of experience in a leadership or team lead role, including managing projects, setting priorities, and mentoring team members.

• Experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, or similar.

• Strong understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS, or AKS).

• Proficiency with version control systems, particularly Git.

Target salary range: $240,001 - $280,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

REQNUMBER: 2613147

SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability