DevOps Engineer
Arlington, VA · HybridFull-time$120–160K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
SAIC is seeking a DevOps Engineer to build and operate internal DevOps tools and a developer platform across connected and air-gapped environments. The role is primarily onsite at a customer location in Arlington, Virginia, at least three days per week. The position requires a bachelor's degree and five years of experience, though additional work experience may substitute for the degree, and an active Top Secret clearance with eligible SCI.
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Description
SAIC is seeking DevOps Engineer to join our team. The DevOps Engineer will work at the following SAIC location: Arlington, VA .
Note: This role is primarily onsite at our customer location. The selected candidate will be expected to work onsite a minimum of three (3) days per week. Onsite requirements are subject to change based on program needs.
Job Duties:
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Tool Development: Build internal DevOps tools, CLI utilities, and automation scripts.
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Platform Engineer building and running our internal developer platform (Azure, CI/CD, Kubernetes, pipelines and automation) for both connected and air-gapped environments.
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GitLab for source control and pipelines; Terraform and Ansible as the primary automation language; Python for helpers/tests; Helm for Kubernetes deployments.
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Microsoft Azure Stack Hub and Hyper-V sidecar.
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Trunk-based GitLab workflows, deterministic pipelines with built-in testing and security scans, evidence (JUnit/SBOM/scan) attached to every change, no manual “click-ops.”
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Checksum/signature/SBOM-driven movement of artifacts, mirroring via reposync and Pulp, offline scanning and promotion for high-side environments.
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Secret hygiene by default, secrets management familiarity, and comfort with vulnerability/misconfig scanning in CI (SAST, IaC, secret detection, Semgrep/KICS, Trivy/pip-audit).
Qualifications
Required Education and Experience:
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Bachelors degree and five (5) years experience; Additional work experience can be considered in lieu of degree.
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Go-based CLI tools and API integrations to automate cloud infrastructure provisioning.
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Strong background deploying and managing cloud resources (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, etc).
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Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience with tools such as Terraform.
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Scripting language such as PowerShell or Python for pipeline and OS task automation.
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Proficient with Linux command line and shell scripting (Bash).
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Familiarity with Microsoft enterprise environments (Active Directory, Entra ID, DNS).
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Configuration management experience using tools such as Ansible, Puppet, and Chef.
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Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
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Experience using Docker containers.
Clearance Requirements:
- Active Top Secret clearance with eligible SCI; SCI access must have been debriefed within the last two (2) years.
Desired Skills:
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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) experience, RHEL/Windows patching familiarity, and strong documentation habits for handoffs and audits.
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Experience utilizing Helm for managing Kubernetes deployments.
Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
REQNUMBER: 2618704
SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability
How this job compares
Set against the 2,331 open DevOps Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$120–160K/yr
- Virginia median$118–195K/yr160 salary ranges
- US median$118–184K/yr1,715 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $140K, is 8% below the Virginia median midpoint ($152K) — in the middle half of DevOps Engineer salary ranges in Virginia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 200 open DevOps Engineer jobs in Virginia and 2,331 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
- General Dynamics Information Technology14 open
- EY11 open
- Accenture10 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; DevOps Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (2,064 postings).
- Education
- 789 of the 2,331 open DevOps Engineer jobs (34%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 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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