{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"5d9727b0b09b1ce0a29c19b3","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/5d9727b0b09b1ce0a29c19b3","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/5d9727b0b09b1ce0a29c19b3","title":"Sr DevOps Engineer","description":"DevOps Engineer | Build the Infrastructure Behind Mission-Critical Aviation Technology\n\nLocation: Englewood, CO\nPay Rate: $88.04/hour\nJob Title: Sr DevOps Engineer\nIndustry: Aviation / Aerospace & Defense\nPartner: PDS Tech Commercial\n\nTake DevOps Beyond the Cloud\n\nPDS Tech Commercial is partnering with a leader in the aviation industry to find an experienced Engineer ready to design, automate, and optimize the infrastructure that keeps sophisticated software solutions moving from development to deployment.\n\nIn this high-impact role, you'll work at the intersection of DevOps, virtualization, containerization, release engineering, and infrastructure automation. You'll help create secure, scalable, and repeatable deployment environments across cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and edge systems while collaborating with talented software, systems, QA, security, and operations teams.\n\nIf you're the kind of engineer who thrives on solving complex infrastructure challenges and believes great DevOps is about enabling teams to move faster without sacrificing reliability, security, or quality, this could be your next opportunity.\n\nWhat You'll Do\n\nAs a Sr DevOps Engineer, you'll play a key role within a larger software development team, rapidly delivering operational capabilities to the field.\n\nYour day-to-day responsibilities will include:\n\nDesigning, implementing, and maintaining scalable CI/CD pipelines supporting multiple deployment approaches across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.\nAutomating infrastructure provisioning and configuration management to create reliable and consistent environments throughout the delivery lifecycle.\nOptimizing and standardizing deployment workflows to establish repeatable release processes across varying product and customer requirements.\nDesigning and managing complex infrastructure using virtualization, containerization, and orchestration technologies.\nMonitoring, troubleshooting, and improving system performance and reliability across distributed systems and complex integrations.\nWorking hands-on with technologies including RHEL KVM, VMware, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, GitHub, and CI/CD tooling.\nEstablishing virtualization and containerization environments for edge deployments and stand-alone compute systems.\nCollaborating with development, QA, security, product, and operations teams to align deployment strategies with architectural, security, and operational requirements.\nDriving continuous improvement by refining operational tooling and developing best-practice documentation for deployment and release operations.\nSupporting configuration control and coordinating release-readiness activities.\nCreating process documentation and helping train engineers on environment configuration and deployment.\nMentoring software and systems engineers while promoting strong DevOps methodologies and engineering practices.\nCommunicating effectively with team members and key stakeholders.\n\nTravel may be required. This position requires the ability to work effectively in an office or hybrid environment.\n\nWhat You Must Have\n\nWe're looking for a seasoned DevOps professional with strong technical depth and the ability to operate successfully in a collaborative, fast-paced engineering environment.\n\nEducation & Experience\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.\n8+ years of DevOps or related professional experience.\nA higher-level relevant degree may substitute for some experience.\nRelevant professional experience may also be considered in place of the required education. Without a degree, a minimum of 12 years of related experience is required.\nTechnical & Professional Qualifications\nHands-on virtualization development experience with extensive knowledge of designing and deploying software using RHEL KVM and VMware technologies.\nHands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes and/or OpenShift and related container ecosystems.\nExperience implementing virtualization and containerization environments within edge deployments or stand-alone compute systems.\nDemonstrated experience implementing microservices and containers.\nExperience with developer tools such as GitHub.\nStrong understanding of release engineering and CI/CD pipelines.\nProven ability to deliver reliable, high-quality, and consistent systems and development environments.\nStrong knowledge of system performance, reliability, distributed systems, infrastructure provisioning, and configuration management.\nAbility to quickly take ownership of projects and work effectively with minimal supervision.\nExcellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills.\nAbility to succeed in a highly collaborative, fast-moving engineering environment.\nAbility to read, write, and speak English.\nThis position requires a security clearance, and candidates are required to be U.S. Citizens.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\n\nYou'll stand out even more if you bring:\n\nMaster's degree in a related field.\nAerospace and Defense industry experience.\nExperience operating across multiple security domains and air-gapped systems.\nAdvanced proficiency with Ansible, including creating and maintaining playbooks.\nExperience coordinating release-readiness activities.\nExperience implementing and enforcing configuration control across development environments.\nExperience generating technical/process documentation and training engineers on environment configuration and deployment.\nPreferred Certifications\n\nRelevant certifications may include:\n\nCertified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)\nCertified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)\nRed Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)\nRed Hat Certified Specialist in Containers and Kubernetes\nRed Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Virtualization\nVMware Certified Professional, VMware vSphere Foundation Administrator\nVMware Certified Professional, VMware vSphere Foundation Support\nWhy Join Us?\n\nThis is more than an opportunity to maintain pipelines. It's a chance to shape how advanced aviation technology is built, deployed, and delivered.\n\nThrough PDS Tech Commercial, you'll have the opportunity to:\n\nWork alongside talented professionals supporting a leader in the aviation industry.\nTackle sophisticated infrastructure, automation, virtualization, and deployment challenges.\nApply your expertise to technology where reliability, security, and engineering quality truly matter.\nWork with modern technologies including Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, VMware, RHEL KVM, Ansible, and CI/CD automation.\nCollaborate across software, systems, QA, security, and operations disciplines.\nMentor other engineers and influence DevOps standards and best practices.\nContinue developing your expertise in a challenging Aerospace and Defense environment.\nEarn a competitive $88.04/hour while contributing your skills to high-impact programs.\nReady to Engineer What Comes Next?\n\nIf you're an experienced DevOps professional who knows how to turn complex infrastructure into reliable, repeatable, and scalable delivery environments, we want to hear from you.\n\nApply today with PDS Tech Commercial and bring your DevOps expertise to a team helping advance the future of aviation technology.\n\nThis position requires use of information or access to facilities subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or Export Administration Regulations (EAR). These regulations may limit access of controlled technologies: 1) to U.S. Persons, including U.S. Citizens, lawful permanent residents, and other narrow categories including refugees and asylees, or 2) to certain foreign nationals that have received an export license.\n\nPay Details: $88.04 per hour\n\nBenefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, EAP program, commuter benefits and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable.\n\nEqual Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled\n\nMilitary connected talent encouraged to apply\n\nTo read our Candidate Privacy Information Statement, which explains how we will use your information, please navigate to https://www.pdstech.com/candidate-privacy\n\nThe Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:\n\nThe California Fair Chance Act\nLos Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance\nLos Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers\nSan Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance\n\nMassachusetts Candidates Only: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. 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You'll help create secure, scalable, and repeatable deployment environments across cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and edge systems while collaborating with talented software, systems, QA, security, and operations teams.\n\nIf you're the kind of engineer who thrives on solving complex infrastructure challenges and believes great DevOps is about enabling teams to move faster without sacrificing reliability, security, or quality, this could be your next opportunity.\n\nWhat You'll Do\n\nAs a Sr DevOps Engineer, you'll play a key role within a larger software development team, rapidly delivering operational capabilities to the field.\n\nYour day-to-day responsibilities will include:\n\nDesigning, implementing, and maintaining scalable CI/CD pipelines supporting multiple deployment approaches across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.\nAutomating infrastructure provisioning and configuration management to create reliable and consistent environments throughout the delivery lifecycle.\nOptimizing and standardizing deployment workflows to establish repeatable release processes across varying product and customer requirements.\nDesigning and managing complex infrastructure using virtualization, containerization, and orchestration technologies.\nMonitoring, troubleshooting, and improving system performance and reliability across distributed systems and complex integrations.\nWorking hands-on with technologies including RHEL KVM, VMware, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, GitHub, and CI/CD tooling.\nEstablishing virtualization and containerization environments for edge deployments and stand-alone compute systems.\nCollaborating with development, QA, security, product, and operations teams to align deployment strategies with architectural, security, and operational requirements.\nDriving continuous improvement by refining operational tooling and developing best-practice documentation for deployment and release operations.\nSupporting configuration control and coordinating release-readiness activities.\nCreating process documentation and helping train engineers on environment configuration and deployment.\nMentoring software and systems engineers while promoting strong DevOps methodologies and engineering practices.\nCommunicating effectively with team members and key stakeholders.\n\nTravel may be required. This position requires the ability to work effectively in an office or hybrid environment.\n\nWhat You Must Have\n\nWe're looking for a seasoned DevOps professional with strong technical depth and the ability to operate successfully in a collaborative, fast-paced engineering environment.\n\nEducation & Experience\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.\n8+ years of DevOps or related professional experience.\nA higher-level relevant degree may substitute for some experience.\nRelevant professional experience may also be considered in place of the required education. 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It's a chance to shape how advanced aviation technology is built, deployed, and delivered.\n\nThrough PDS Tech Commercial, you'll have the opportunity to:\n\nWork alongside talented professionals supporting a leader in the aviation industry.\nTackle sophisticated infrastructure, automation, virtualization, and deployment challenges.\nApply your expertise to technology where reliability, security, and engineering quality truly matter.\nWork with modern technologies including Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, VMware, RHEL KVM, Ansible, and CI/CD automation.\nCollaborate across software, systems, QA, security, and operations disciplines.\nMentor other engineers and influence DevOps standards and best practices.\nContinue developing your expertise in a challenging Aerospace and Defense environment.\nEarn a competitive $88.04/hour while contributing your skills to high-impact programs.\nReady to Engineer What Comes Next?\n\nIf you're an experienced DevOps professional who knows how to turn complex infrastructure into reliable, repeatable, and scalable delivery environments, we want to hear from you.\n\nApply today with PDS Tech Commercial and bring your DevOps expertise to a team helping advance the future of aviation technology.\n\nThis position requires use of information or access to facilities subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or Export Administration Regulations (EAR). These regulations may limit access of controlled technologies: 1) to U.S. Persons, including U.S. Citizens, lawful permanent residents, and other narrow categories including refugees and asylees, or 2) to certain foreign nationals that have received an export license.\n\nPay Details: $88.04 per hour\n\nBenefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, EAP program, commuter benefits and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable.\n\nEqual Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled\n\nMilitary connected talent encouraged to apply\n\nTo read our Candidate Privacy Information Statement, which explains how we will use your information, please navigate to https://www.pdstech.com/candidate-privacy\n\nThe Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:\n\nThe California Fair Chance Act\nLos Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance\nLos Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers\nSan Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance\n\nMassachusetts Candidates Only: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. 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