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DevOps Engineers

Fort Meade, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 18 Aug 2025

About the role

DEVOPS ENGINEERS
Job Type: Full Time
Level: Mid, Senior, Principal
Location: Maryland (Annapolis Junction / Fort Meade area)
Security Clearance: TS/SCI with Appropriate Agency Polygraph
Artera Technologies, LLC’s Cloud and DevOps engineering teams develop tools and methods to maximize application, software, and infrastructure resources. We build superior solutions to optimize and support our clients’ large datasets.

Tasking:
The DevOps Engineer shall be responsible for performing System Integration activities including installation, configuration, and sustainment of FOSS/COTS/GOTS software tools, packages, and libraries in a Linux environment. The DevOps Engineer must be detailed oriented, have strong organizational skills, and excellent troubleshooting skills to include the identification and resolution of issues, problems, and trouble tickets related to the same. Responsible for:

Linux DevOps engineering; scripting with Bash/Python; requires Kubernetes experience and Ansible/Puppet knowledge.
STE/STN compliance of their supported systems; execute and implement solutions to ensure all supported tools remain compliant with STE/STN requirements as they evolve over time.
Bring consistency to contract’s support and security posture, allowing analysts to navigate the vast ecosystem of analytic capability to accomplish mission.
Provide support across contract and partners with the IC community when tools support users outside NSA.

Skills & Experience:

Experience using the Linux CLI
Experience developing and maintaining scripts using Bash/Python
Experience installing, configuring, and supporting COTS/GOTS/FOSS software, libraries, and packages in a Linux environment
Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and containerd
Experience with NoSQL technologies such as MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and Accumulo
Experience with container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes
Experience administering Kubernetes clusters on bare metal in a Linux environment
Experience with IaC (Infrastructure as Code) concepts, principles and automation tools such as Ansible and Terraform
Experience with CI/CD principles, methodologies, and tools such as GitLab CI
Familiarity with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and applications
Experience with Linux cluster/node monitoring tools
Experience with the Atlassian Tool Suite (JIRA, Confluence)
Experience with Git Version Control System

General Qualifications:

DevOps Engineer Level 1 requires a bachelor’s degree in system engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline, and 3-6 years of experience as a DevOps engineer on programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.

DevOps Engineer Level 2 requires a bachelor’s degree in system engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline, and 6-8 years of experience as a DevOps engineer on programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.
DevOps Level 3 requires a bachelor’s degree in system engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline, and 8+ years of experience as a DevOps engineer on programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.
Five (5) additional years of relevant experience may be accepted in lieu a bachelor’s degree on some contracts.

About Us!
Artera Technologies, LLC is an energetic, employee-focused, woman-owned business headquartered in Ellicott City, MD. Founded in 2012, Artera offers innovative software and systems engineering solutions to the Intelligence Community (IC). We specialize in Computer Network Operations (CNO), embedded development, software engineering, cloud engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)