1 month ago
Colorado Springs, CO, USAEntry Level
Base Salary
$140k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, maintain, secure, and operate scalable infrastructure across cloud, hybrid, private-cloud, and on-premises environments.
- Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code and configuration-management solutions using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, and Pulumi.
- Build and improve CI/CD pipelines with security controls, testing, artifact management, and deployment approvals.
- Integrate code scanning, dependency scanning, secret detection, container scanning, configuration validation, and vulnerability remediation into software delivery.
- Operate containerized platforms and orchestration technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.
- Establish observability through centralized logging, metrics, alerting, tracing, dashboards, and service-level objectives.
- Implement identity, access, secrets-management, encryption, network-segmentation, and least-privilege controls.
- Support availability, incident response, root-cause analysis, disaster recovery, backup, and continuity-of-operations activities.
- Automate operational work, maintain technical standards and runbooks, conduct infrastructure design reviews, and mentor junior engineers.
- Coordinate platform improvements and technical issue resolution with engineering, cybersecurity, compliance, program, and product stakeholders.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of general full-time work experience, potentially reduced through advanced education.
- At least 4 years of experience in systems engineering, cloud infrastructure, site reliability engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, DevSecOps, or a related technical discipline.
- At least 6 months of experience in a management or leadership role.
- Demonstrated experience designing and operating production infrastructure in AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, private-cloud, or hybrid environments.
- Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code and configuration-management tools.
- Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or equivalent platforms.
- Experience with Linux administration, networking fundamentals, scripting, and automation using Python, Bash, PowerShell, Go, or similar languages.
- Experience operating container and orchestration technologies including Kubernetes and OpenShift.
- Working knowledge of identity and access management, vulnerability management, secure configuration baselines, secrets management, encryption, and logging.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic Stack, Splunk, Datadog, or CloudWatch.
- Current DoW 8570 IAT Level II certification, such as Security+ or equivalent.
- Active DoW Secret Security Clearance.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, information systems, engineering, cybersecurity, or a related field is desired; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
- Experience in regulated, government, defense, or other high-assurance environments and relevant cloud, Kubernetes, security, or systems certifications are desired.
- Experience with policy-as-code, security-as-code, Zero Trust, secure software supply chains, high availability, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and performance engineering is desired.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including documenting technical decisions and briefing technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Paid time off and holidays.
- Retirement benefits including 401(k) matching.
- Educational reimbursement.
- Parental leave.
- Employee stock purchase plan.
- Tax-saving options.
- Disability and life insurance.
- Pet insurance.
- On-site work only at Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colorado, or Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama; no remote or telework is available.
- Relocation assistance is not available at this time; travel is required up to 10% of the time.
- The original posting period is October 1, 2026 through October 15, 2026, subject to earlier closure after a suitable candidate is selected.
Tech Stack
AnsibleAWSAzureBashDatadogDockerGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJenkinsKubernetesLinuxOpenShiftPowerShellPrometheusPythonSonarQubeSplunkTerraform
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About Amentum
Amentum provides engineering, operations and maintenance, logistics, and mission support services to U.S. federal agencies and allied governments, including defense and energy programs. Its business centers on large, long-term government contracts spanning defense, space, nuclear cleanup, and infrastructure, with program management and technical services at the core. Headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia, it was formed in 2020 from the spinoff of AECOM’s Management Services division.