3 days ago
Baltimore, MD, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$260k - $286k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines to package, test, and deploy containerized applications to Kubernetes clusters.
- Standardize Dockerfiles, optimize multi-stage builds, perform image security scanning, and manage container registries.
- Automate cluster deployments, Helm releases, and environment synchronization.
- Integrate FOSS, COTS, and GOTS products and evaluate releases with development teams before deployment.
- Implement containerization solutions and distributed data object storage.
- Collaborate with developers to design Kubernetes-integrated solutions, troubleshoot complex systems, and conduct root cause analysis.
- Create installation, system administration, and technical documentation and review merge requests and Helm charts.
- Provide Tier 3 end-user support and lead systems engineering efforts as needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or a related discipline is required, with five additional years of systems engineering experience permitted as a substitution.
- Twenty years of systems engineering experience on programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.
- TS//SCI with Poly security clearance is required for Maryland.
- Hands-on proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, container networking and storage, Podman, Harbor, Rancher, Git, and Ceph is required.
- Expert knowledge of Linux operating systems, including Rocky and RHEL, is required.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD environments and integrating FOSS, COTS, and GOTS products is required.
- Experience with root cause analysis, product testing and evaluation, documentation, troubleshooting, reverse engineering GOTS products, and enterprise integration is required.
- Experience planning and leading systems engineering efforts and providing feedback to development teams is required.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, holidays, retirement benefits including 401(k) matching, educational reimbursement, parental leave, employee stock purchase plan, tax-saving options, disability and life insurance, and pet insurance.
- The role follows a five-days-per-week, eight-hours-per-day schedule in Maryland; benefits may vary by employment type, location, and applicable agreements.
- The position was posted on 11/09/2026 and remains open until filled.
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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.