
Platform DevOps Engineer, Senior
Chantilly, VAFull-time$78–176K/yrPosted 4 days agoStill listed today
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The Senior Platform DevOps Engineer develops, manages, and secures container platforms and software to address client challenges. The role supports cloud platform development, informs strategy and design, and helps ensure standards throughout containerization. The engineer recommends resources for secure container adoption and works with application development teams across the software development lifecycle. A TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required.
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Platform DevOps Engineer, SeniorThe Opportunity: Everyone is trying to “harness the cloud,” but not everyone knows how. As a DevOps engineer, you’re eager to develop, manage, and secure a container platform that meets your client’s needs and takes advantage of cloud capabilities. We need you to develop container management software to solve some of our clients’ toughest challenges.
As a senior platform DevOps engineer at Booz Allen, you can use your technical skills to affect mission-forward change. On our team, you’ll hone your skills using the latest cloud technologies as you look for ways to improve your client’s environment with current container software to ensure seamless orchestration. Using your DevOps platform experience, you’ll support your team as you inform strategy and design while ensuring standards are met throughout the containerization process.
You’ll recommend resources that will help your client manage and securely adopt containers. Additionally, you’ll continue to strengthen your DevOps skills while supporting the development of critical cloud platforms.
Work with us to use cloud platform technology for good.
Join us. The world can’t wait.
You Have:
- 3+ years of experience in the development of tools and processes to drive DevOps or DevSecOps maturity by automating builds, regression testing, monitoring, and pushing releases across environments
- 3+ years of experience troubleshooting, triaging, and resolving issues related to Gitlab CI/CD pipeline failures or slowness
- Experience developing enterprise cloud-native solutions involving Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, AWS, Gitlab, or ArgoCD
- Experience developing, managing, and securing containers
- Experience working with application development teams across the software development lifecycle and creating solutions to complex problems within a collaborative team environment
- Knowledge of Java programming language
- TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
- HS diploma or GED
- Security+ CE, SSCP, CCNA-Security, CISSP, or GSEC Certification
Nice If You Have:
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code Terraform deployments
- Experience with creating and improving continuous automation across multiple technical stacks
- Experience triaging and resolving issues related to both open source and commercial tools in public cloud environments
- Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python or Linux Shell Script
Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required.
Compensation At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.
Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $77,600.00 to $176,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date. Identity Statement As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.
Candidate AI Usage Policy AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.
Work Model Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.
- Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
- Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen or customer facility, in alignment with your leadership's expectations and the needs of the role.
- Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed full-time at a customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.
Commitment to Non-Discrimination All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,430 open DevOps Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$78–176K/yr
- Virginia median$119–196K/yr151 salary ranges
- US median$120–187K/yr1,784 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $127K, is 21% below the Virginia median midpoint ($160K) — in the lowest quarter of DevOps Engineer salary ranges in Virginia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 194 open DevOps Engineer jobs in Virginia and 2,430 across the US. 12% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
- General Dynamics Information Technology12 open
- EY11 open
- Accenture9 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; DevOps Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (2,135 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 804 of the 2,430 open DevOps Engineer jobs (33%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 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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