Senior DevOps Software Engineer

Job Description ACTIVE SECURITY CLEARANCE AT THE TS/SCI POLYGRAPH LEVEL IS REQUIRED Do you like to tackle complex software challenges? If you are energized by the idea of building seamless development environments and automating production-bound pipelines, you’re in the right place. We are looking for a Senior DevOps Software Engineer who shares our drive to push boundaries and transform development workflows into stable, scalable realities. In this role, you will manage and build robust CI/CD pipelines to production environments for our mission-critical data and core development tools teams. You will be challenged to provide advanced automation, clean system scripting, and robust feature development support to optimize critical monitoring and reporting activities. Work alongside a collaborative team that genuinely values your technical expertise. Let’s achieve more together!. Location & Work Environment • Primary Location: Annapolis Junction, MD • Work Style: On-site Compensation & Benefits The annual base salary range for this role is $189,000 - $224,000 (USD), which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from the posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things. , Required Skills • Clearance: Active Fully-Cleared with Poly • Linux System Administration: Deep hands-on experience handling file system manipulation, performance monitoring, logging, and infrastructure troubleshooting using command line tools • CI/CD Automation: Proven expertise designing, deploying, and monitoring automated pipelines to production environments. • Containerization & Orchestration: Solid understanding of Kubernetes deployment, runtime management, and configuration. • Container Management: Direct experience deploying, configurations-hardening, and managing Docker containers. • Workflow Optimization: Strong background driving automated monitoring tools and stability processes within an active software lifecycle. Education & Experience • Experience: Minimum of fourteen (14) years of professional software engineering or DevOps experience on programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity. • Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline from an accredited college or university. • Substitution: Four (4) years of additional software engineering or systems infrastructure experience may substitute for a bachelor’s degree (totaling 18 years of experience). , Desired Skills • Cloud Infrastructure: Strong hands-on computing skills and deployment knowledge within AWS. • Automation Scripting: High proficiency writing clean tools and scripts using Bash, Python, or JavaScript. • Virtualization: Experience building, configuring, and supporting virtual machines (VMs) using enterprise customer corporate infrastructure. • Data Flow & Routing: Exposure to data transit orchestration using Apache NiFi. • Observability & Analytics: Familiarity with data visualization and reporting dashboards like Grafana and Kibana. • Build Automation: Experience leveraging Jenkins engines for pipeline control. • Security Hardening: Experience hardening Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) application configurations. , About Nyla Technology Solutions Nyla Technology Solutions delivers exceptional Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, and Software Engineering services for the U.S. Government. Nyla embraces a forward-thinking and bold approach at every turn, earning us a solid reputation of technical trendsetters within the industry. We have a passion for developing solutions that have a quick and immediate impact on mission. Headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, our customers love how we tackle their most challenging problems and get things done. If you have the unique experience and expertise we are seeking, along with the desire and determination to invest your time and energy as a part of Nyla’s team, Taking Care of All of You Nyla provides a top-of-market compensation and benefits package. And through our unique Nyla FLEX program, we custom tailor these benefits to best fit your lifestyle. The Nyla FLEX benefit program is designed to offer you flexibility in the 3 biggest areas of your life: your pay, your leave, and your schedule. PAY - Nyla starts with 4 weeks of Annual Leave plus 11 holidays and an additional day of Annual Leave for each year you’re at the company. You have the flexibility to cash out your annual leave hours, opt out of other Nyla benefits, and/or arrange for additional hours on contract* (over 40 hrs/week). There’s even an option to earn 1.3 times your hourly rate once you work over 1880 hours on contract! LEAVE - Want to spend more time with the family? Want more time to travel the world? You can BUY additional annual leave for a total of 6 weeks of annual leave. That’s up to 240 hours of leave plus 11 holidays! That’s not even including paid anniversary leave! SCHEDULE - Does the traditional 40-hour workweek no longer fit your lifestyle? With Nyla FLEX, you have the freedom to scale down to 30-32 hours while still enjoying the top-notch Nyla benefits you know and love. It's flexibility that works for you without compromising the perks! WHAT ABOUT OTHER BENEFITS? Nyla’s health care (medical, dental, and vision) is 100% covered by the company. We provide 10% 401k matching - with full vesting day 1! Our Professional Development offers $5,000 per year to be used towards fees, tuition, or time off for your continued growth. We even have a student loan repayment program and we provide 8 hours of volunteering annually so you can support your community, making your world a better place. To learn more about Nyla's culture and our exceptional benefit packages click here. Nyla is an equal opportunity employer.