Systems Engineer – DevOps Support
Que Technology Group, Inc. is seeking a Systems Engineer to support DevOps activities for the Zero Trust Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ZT ICAM) program and deployments for DoD customers.
Working under the direction of senior engineers, you will assist with automated build, test, packaging, deployment, monitoring, and release activities; support Linux and containerized environments; and help maintain repeatable deployment configurations and technical documentation. The position requires foundational DevOps knowledge and some practical experience with Kubernetes, with an interest in expanding those skills while supporting an integrated enterprise solution across varied customer environments. This is a full-time position (40 hours/week, normal day shift) at a Government or contractor facility in the Fort Meade, MD area, in a fast-paced environment where multiple applications are developed and deployed simultaneously.
Job Responsibilities
- Support continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, automated builds, testing, artifact packaging, and release activities
- Assist with deployment and sustainment of containerized applications in Kubernetes environments under the guidance of senior engineers
- Maintain configuration files, scripts, deployment manifests, repositories, and version-controlled engineering artifacts
- Help configure and troubleshoot workloads, services, namespaces, ConfigMaps, Secrets, storage, networking, and access controls
- Monitor pipeline and deployment results, review logs and system health information, document issues, and support corrective actions
- Assist with container and dependency scanning, vulnerability remediation tracking, software bills of materials, and release evidence
- Support DISA and other DoW customer deployment activities by collecting environment information, executing documented procedures, and escalating technical issues
- Develop and maintain setup instructions, deployment checklists, troubleshooting notes, release documentation, and other technical guides
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or a related discipline from an accredited college or university plus 7 years of System Engineering experience in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity. An additional 5 years of SE experience may be substituted for the degree (12 years total).
- Foundational DevOps knowledge and some practical experience with Kubernetes
- Able to adapt quickly to change and react to unexpected results; self-motivated, organized, and able to multitask
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with RKE2, Rancher, Helm, Kustomize, Kubernetes package configuration, or single- and multi-namespace deployments
- Familiarity with Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Ansible, Terraform, or comparable automation and infrastructure tools
- Exposure to security scanning, vulnerability management, software bills of materials, artifact signing, container registries, or software supply chain practices
- Familiarity with REST APIs, JSON, PKI, mutual TLS, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, or enterprise identity and access management concepts
- Experience supporting classified, disconnected, air-gapped, or otherwise restricted customer environments
- Experience using Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Word, SharePoint, or Git-based repositories to manage work and technical documentation
Security Clearance
- Active Top Secret clearance with a Polygraph
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Company Medical/Dental/Vision plans – Company paid
- Short-term Disability, Long-term disability and Life Insurance – Company paid
- Business/ First Class travel upgrade for 7 hour or longer flights & company card will be provided for expenses
- Vacation / Personal days granted at 25 days per year
- Paid Federal Holidays – 11 days
- $5,000 Annual Professional Development Fund plus 40 paid hours if in class
- 401K with 6% company match; all contributions are immediately vested by Employee
- Employee will be paid a bonus of $10,000 per employee hired based on their referral
- Up to 3 paid Code Red days due to customer closure
Que Technology Group, Inc., is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.