
DevOps Engineer
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The DevOps Engineer II designs, develops, supports, and optimizes development and test infrastructure, including pipelines, environments, and lab hardware. The role works with developers, QA, program managers, IT, and security teams to maintain CI/CD systems, automate processes, support software builds, and incorporate security practices into the pipeline.
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Job Description
The DevOps Engineer II helps design, develop, launch, support, and optimize the development and test infrastructure that keeps developers building and QA verifying. This role owns the pipelines, environments, and lab hardware they depend on, working directly with developers, QA/automation engineers, program managers, IT/system administrators, information security, and other functional areas as required. Position Responsibilities:
- Works with developers and QA engineers to design, build, and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines that build, test, and deliver software across many components
- Builds and maintains multi-architecture (ARM64/amd64) Docker images, multistage Dockerfiles, and development containers used across projects
- Administers and maintains GitLab, CI runners (including container/Kubernetes-based runners), and related source control and automation tooling
- Helps maintain the team's lab and test infrastructure, acting as a technical steward for the hardware and environments that developers and QA depend on
- Sets up development, test, and build environments for the team
- Helps perform tasks related to system administration
- Installs, tests, and verifies software products; supports team members with build and installation issues
- Defines and implements software version control processes, policies, and procedures
- Identifies and automates manual processes, including infrastructure-as-code where appropriate
- Builds security into the pipeline (DevSecOps), supporting software scans (e.g., SAST), SBOM generation, dependency and artifact management, and secure build practices
- Participates in enhancing current build infrastructure, deployment, and DevOps processes
- Other duties as assigned
Skills and Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) is required or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
- Minimum 2 - 5 years of work experience managing DevOps operations and tools (e.g., GitLab and GitLab CI, GitHub, Artifactory, Xray), including branching, tagging, merging and release management oversight
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, and with containerization using Docker (multistage builds, docker-compose, development containers)
- Proficiency scripting in Python and Bash
- Experience with Linux administration (e.g., RHEL and Ubuntu)
- Familiarity with Agile and Scrum methodology
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated ability to implement process improvements, streamline activities, and develop efficiencies
- Must hold or be able to obtain a Secret clearance
- Advanced degree
- Certifications in networking, security, and related areas
- Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, including managed offerings such as EKS)
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools such as Ansible and Terraform
- Experience with DevSecOps practices, including software scans (SAST), SBOM generation, secure build/artifact management, STIGs, and IATT / Authority to Operate (ATO) processes
- Familiarity with managing lab and test hardware and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) environments
- Exposure to embedded, robotics, UAS, or ROS-based software builds is a plus
- Embraces AI-assisted tooling to automate infrastructure, pipelines, and related engineering work
- Demonstrates competency in contributing to strategic planning of infrastructure requirements in support of business growth objectives
- Working knowledge of current network hardware, protocols, and standards
- Communicates ideas in both technical and user-friendly language
- Successfully works within a multi-project environment and supports multiple internal customers
- Ability to apply principles of logic to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems
- Demonstrates strong interpersonal, leadership and communication (verbal and written) skills
- Demonstrates the ability to develop and maintain internal and external trusting, professional relationships
We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].
How this job compares
Set against the 2,413 open DevOps Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$145–215K/yr284 salary ranges
- US median$60–65/hr78 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 362 open DevOps Engineer jobs in California and 2,413 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four DevOps Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 2,151 postings).
- Education
- 924 of the 2,413 open DevOps Engineer jobs (38%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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