DevOps Engineer – Federal Customer
Location: Chantilly, VA
Work Arrangement: 100% Onsite – 5 Days per Week
Security Clearance: Active TS/SCI Required
Position: DevOps / Platform Engineering
Job Summary
PGTEK is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to support a federal customer in Chantilly, VA. This position plays a critical role in designing, deploying, maintaining, and securing next-generation IT infrastructure supporting mission-critical workloads.
The successful candidate will join a multidisciplinary team of DevOps and platform engineers responsible for building, automating, and maintaining enterprise infrastructure. This role encompasses the full infrastructure stack, including operating systems, networking, identity management, authentication services, Kubernetes, OpenShift, storage, and application platforms.
The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for automating infrastructure deployment and configuration, supporting containerized applications, maintaining platform services, and ensuring infrastructure reliability, security, and scalability.
The ideal candidate has strong Linux and infrastructure administration skills, hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerization, and the ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues across multiple layers of the platform.
This is an excellent opportunity for a technically motivated professional who enjoys working with enterprise infrastructure, modern platform technologies, and automation in a secure federal environment.
An active TS/SCI clearance is required. Candidates must be able to work onsite five days per week in Chantilly, VA.
Key Responsibilities
DevOps & Platform Infrastructure
Design, deploy, configure, maintain, and secure enterprise IT infrastructure supporting mission-critical workloads.
Support the full infrastructure stack, including DNS, Identity Management (IdM), OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), OAuth, DHCP, S3, NFS, and application services.
Automate the deployment and configuration of operating systems, applications, infrastructure services, and platform components.
Support infrastructure lifecycle management, including provisioning, configuration, maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
Analyze complex infrastructure problems and develop effective, sustainable technical solutions.
Collaborate with architects, developers, platform engineers, and project management teams to deliver reliable infrastructure capabilities.
Support infrastructure scalability, availability, security, and operational performance.
Adapt to evolving technical requirements and support changing program priorities.
Kubernetes & Container Platform Engineering
Deploy, configure, manage, and monitor Kubernetes environments and the containerized applications running within them.
Support enterprise container platforms, including Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, and Podman.
Automate the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of Kubernetes platform components.
Containerize applications and support application deployment across containerized environments.
Troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters, container workloads, and associated infrastructure services.
Support application lifecycle management, platform upgrades, and infrastructure configuration changes.
Collaborate with application development and platform engineering teams to improve deployment reliability and operational efficiency.
Maintain platform stability and support the integration of containerized applications with enterprise infrastructure services.
Linux & Operating Systems Administration
Administer, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Linux-based infrastructure.
Support multiple operating systems, including Linux, Windows, BSD, and UNIX environments.
Perform system configuration, software installation, patching, upgrades, and operational maintenance.
Troubleshoot operating system, application, and infrastructure issues.
Support system performance, availability, and security requirements.
Develop and maintain…