Role Overview 3GIMBALS is seeking a DevOps Engineer to build and maintain the infrastructure, automation, and deployment pipelines that keep our unclassified PAI/CAI-based analytic platform reliable, secure, and continuously deliverable.

This role is responsible for infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, containerization and orchestration, observability, and security automation across development and production environments, including operation within secure and restricted networks. The ideal candidate treats infrastructure as software and security as a first-class, automated concern.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure & Automation • Design, provision, and manage cloud and on-premises infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code • Build and maintain container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Docker) • Automate provisioning, configuration, scaling, and environment management • Manage infrastructure across development, test, and production environments, including restricted or air-gapped networks CI/CD & Release Engineering • Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application, data, and model deployments • Implement automated build, test, security-scan, and deployment workflows • Support reproducible builds and artifact/registry management • Enable rapid, reliable, and rollback-capable releases Observability & Reliability • Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing • Establish service-level objectives and support incident response and reliability engineering • Optimize the performance, availability, and cost of platform infrastructure Security & Compliance (DevSecOps) • Integrate security scanning, secrets management, and vulnerability management into pipelines • Implement system hardening, patching, and compliance automation • Support Authority to Operate (ATO), continuous monitoring, and RMF/NIST controls • Implement zero-trust, encryption, and secure network segmentation practices Required

Qualifications

• Technical Expertise • 4+ years of DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering experience •
• Strong experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) • Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation) •
• Hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar) •
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) • Scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Go Operations & Security •
• Experience with monitoring/observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) •
• Understanding of DevSecOps practices, secrets management, and vulnerability scanning • Familiarity with Linux system administration and networking fundamentals •
• Experience with secure software supply chain and artifact management Domain Knowledge •
• Experience operating production systems with high-availability and security requirements

Preferred Qualifications

• Active security clearance or ability to obtain one • Experience in government, defense, or intelligence contracting environments • Experience deploying in secure/classified, restricted, or air-gapped environments • Knowledge of federal compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST 800-53, RMF) and ATO processes • Experience with AWS GovCloud or Azure Government • Familiarity with MLOps and data-pipeline deployment • Relevant certifications (CKA/CKAD, AWS/Azure, Security+) Technical Environment • Infrastructure-as-Code: Terraform, Ansible • Containers: Docker, Kubernetes • CI/CD: GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins • Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK • Cloud: AWS GovCloud, Azure Government • Security: DevSecOps tooling, secrets management, zero-trust, RMF / NIST controls This role keeps the platform running and shipping: secure, automated infrastructure and pipelines that let every other team deliver capability quickly and safely in mission-critical environments.

Salary: $130000 - $160000 per year