DevOps Engineer II

Team: Product Development

Location: Jessup, MD

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: onsite

Your Mission:

Join ClearEdge as a DevOps Engineer, where you will build, package, promote, and operate the infrastructure behind one of our core AI-enabled products including CI/CD, containers, hardening, and both hybrid (on-prem/cloud) and air-gapped deployment paths, supporting AI services and application platforms built with tech like Postgres, RAG, and vector stores. Delivery is AI-assisted, and you own the pipelines, automation, and outcomes.

You will support and enhance a containerized application stack, deploying and operating identity/RBAC, audit logging, encryption, and observability in production, and automating complex processes with both deterministic and non-deterministic tools.

You Will Excel in This Role If You Are:

• Experienced with Infrastructure-as-Code practices and tooling
• Skilled in containerized and orchestrated deployments, and comfortable in Linux environments
• Fluent with AI-native IDEs and comfortable using them as your default way of working
• Strong in version control habits
• Comfortable working in hybrid (on-prem/cloud) and air-gapped environments
• Familiar with deploying and operating apps in the TypeScript/Python/React ecosystem
• Capable of automating deployment and configuration management processes, using both deterministic scripting and AI-assisted/agentic tools
• Experienced troubleshooting deployment and infrastructure issues
• Comfortable scripting in Python or TypeScript, with tech like Postgres, RAG, and vector stores

A Day in the Life:

• Design, implement, and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code solutions
• Automate configuration management and deployment processes
• Deploy and manage containerized applications within orchestration environments
• Support secure system builds and hardened infrastructure baselines
• Deploy and operate identity/RBAC, audit logging, encryption, and observability in production systems
• Collaborate with system administrators, engineers, and security teams
• Troubleshoot deployment, orchestration, and infrastructure issues
• Support documentation and security accreditation activities
• Support development efforts in Python or TypeScript as needed

What We Are Expecting From You:

• Active TS/SCI with Poly clearance; U.S. citizenship
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field (4 years of experience may substitute)
• 2–5 years of experience as a DevOps or Software Engineer
• Fluency with AI-native IDEs
• Strong version control habits
• Practical depth in hybrid deployment (on-prem and cloud), including air-gapped deployment, containers, Linux, and CI/CD
• Experience with layered systems and how apps get deployed — language secondary; scripting/automation often in Python or TypeScript, using tech like Postgres, RAG, and vector stores
• Familiarity with deploying/operating apps in the TypeScript/Python/React ecosystem
• Understands how to deploy and operate identity/RBAC, audit logging, encryption, and observability in production systems
• Implements pipelines and promotion paths; debugs and remediates with tools and automation
• Understands how to automate complex processes with deterministic and non-deterministic tools
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and/or Packer

Nice to Have:

• Systems administration background or SSP accreditation experience
• Infrastructure as Code experience at production scale
• Production observability stack experience
• Experience supporting RMF/ATO (hardening baselines, control evidence, vulnerability remediation)
• Experience with physical security or facility accreditation practices, such as ICD 705 or similar frameworks
• Familiarity with tools used by security and compliance teams