DevOps Automation Engineer - Boulder, CO
15 hours ago
Job description
Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a
DevOps Automation Engineer
to support a critical, long-term, Defense program near
Boulder, CO.
The team is seeking an individual with expertise implementing, automating, and scaling services within cloud environments for Federal Defense and National Intelligence customers.
Location: Boulder, CO (100% on-site, 9/80 schedule)
Clearance: Top Secret, TS/SCI preferred
This job opens for applications on 2/17/2026. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date
Responsibilities:
- Assist with the design, automate, and maintain container orchestration platforms.
- Build, configure, and deploy core infrastructure services—including identity and access management, network architecture, application security, logging, monitoring, and deployment pipelines.
- Collaborate closely with the team to plan and implement major product updates and enhancements.
- Provide architecture guidance, data migration implementation, and troubleshooting support to the implementation of services in the cloud
- Create pipelines using Ansible playbooks, and/or terraform configurations to automate administrative actions from creation to configuration
- Support production grade applications in virtualized and cloud environments using automation
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of relevant work experience or Masters and 6+ years of related experience
- Active Top Secret clearance required, TS/SCI highly preferred
- Experience working with, or are familiar with the differences between, public (AWS, Azure), private (RHOSP, VIO), and mixed cloud environments
- Container technologies such as Docker, or Kubernetes
- Deployment or use of continuous integration and continuous deployment technologies such as GitLab, Jenkins, Puppet, or Chef
- Utilizes Ansible playbooks and/or terraform configurations to automate administrative tasks
- Experience with encryption, certificates, key management, patch management, STIG, RMF, or security hardening, and auditing
- Installation of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) technologies such as Amazon Web Services, OpenStack, RHOSP, or VIO
- Management of Cloud Resources in Amazon Web Services, and/or Azure
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) technologies such as Kubernetes, Rancher, or OpenShift
- Open source server, messaging, load balancing, and database software (such as RabbitMQ, Redis, Elasticsearch)
- Scalable networking technologies such as Load Balancers (NGINX)/Firewalls and web standards (REST APIs, web security mechanisms)
Compensation:
- Total compensation based on experience level - $140,000-$158,000 **based on years of experience**
- Full Benefits: PTO, Paid Holidays, Sick leave as required by state law, Medical, Dental, and Vision, 401k
- Program funded through 2030
Keywords: Docker, Kubernetes, container orchestration, continuous integration, continuous deployment, GitLab, TS/SCI, CI polygraph, top secret, secret, security clearance, MBSE, model based systems engineer, hiring, opentowork, W2, automation, docker, azure, aws, cloud, DoD, defense, satellites, space, sensors, web applications, system engineer, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, production-grade applications, virtualized environments, cloud computing platforms, automation, pipelines, Ansible Playbooks, Terraform configurations, resource provisioning, service configuration, infrastructure automation, effective communication, attention to detail, IT security, encryption, certificates, key management, patch management, STIG, RMF, security hardening, auditing, Infrastructure as a Service, Amazon Web Services, AWS, OpenStack, RHOSP, VIO, cloud resource management, Azure, Platform as a Service, Rancher, OpenShift, cloud automation tools, Terragrunt, Packer, open-source servers, messaging systems, RabbitMQ, Redis, Elasticsearch, load balancing, scalable networking, NGINX, firewalls, REST APIs, web security mechanisms
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