DevOps Engineer/Systems Administrator- 5 days onsite Reston, VA
Arlington, Virginia
Onsite
Full Time
$140k - $160k
DevOps Engineer/Systems Administrator
The DevOps Engineer / Systems Administrator (CKA required) designs, deploys, and maintains physical, virtual, and containerized environments to ensure secure, reliable system performance. The role supports infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, Linux administration, and engineering tooling, solving complex challenges independently while coordinating with senior technical staff when needed.
The company is located in Reston, VA and will be 5 days onsite a week.
What You Will Be Doing:
This position doesn’t provide sponsorship.
The DevOps Engineer / Systems Administrator (CKA required) designs, deploys, and maintains physical, virtual, and containerized environments to ensure secure, reliable system performance. The role supports infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, Linux administration, and engineering tooling, solving complex challenges independently while coordinating with senior technical staff when needed.
The company is located in Reston, VA and will be 5 days onsite a week.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Architect, deploy, and maintain physical, virtual, and containerized infrastructure
- Build automation for configuration management, integration, testing, and deployment
- Develop and operate CI/CD pipelines supporting repeatable and reliable releases
- Stand up fully automated build, test, deploy, and upgrade environments for disconnected networks
- Manage and support core development infrastructure including build servers, artifact repos, and collaboration tools
- Administer Linux systems with emphasis on Ubuntu and RHEL
- Operate enterprise container environments such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, and EKS
- Manage virtualization platforms including VMware and Proxmox
- Create documentation for designs, environments, builds, and operational procedures
- Mentor teammates and share best practices around automation, containerization, and DevOps workflows
- Deliver technical briefings to internal and external stakeholders
- Hands-on experience with Docker and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm)
- Experience with OpenShift or AWS EKS preferred
- Proficiency with CI/CD platforms (GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform required)
- Deploys and supports software systems spanning web, middleware, and database layers
- Strong Linux administration skills (RHEL preferred)
- Experience designing and deploying physical infrastructure (server installation, rack/stack)
- Familiarity administering developer toolchains: Jira, Confluence, Git, Slack, etc.
- Able to communicate clearly in writing, presentations, and documentation
- Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, or related discipline
— OR 8+ years of equivalent professional experience - Minimum 4 years in systems engineering, DevOps, or systems administration
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) — Required
- Experience with automated testing for web and microservices architectures
- Experience with AWS or Azure (AWS EKS strongly preferred)
- Experience with virtualization and automation tools (VMware, Proxmox, Vagrant, Puppet, etc.)
- Familiarity supporting developer platforms (Jira, TFS, GitHub, Slack)
- Cybersecurity exposure a plus
- Willingness to travel internationally as needed
This position doesn’t provide sponsorship.