Developer Operations Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Hawaii

he U.S. Navy's Service Management, Integration, and Transport (SMIT) program has an opening for a Site Reliability Automation and Orchestration Engineer on a high-visibility DoD program that provides engineering support to the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI), the largest information technology (IT) network in the world. This position will provide many opportunities to challenge and grow your skills.

Looking for candidates that reside out of the following locations:

• Bremerton, WA
• Honolulu, HI
• Jacksonville, FL
• Norfolk, VA
• Washington, DC

This person should be a seasoned, self-motivated professional with hands-on engineering and testing experience in virtualized or on-premises environments. The ideal candidate is a skilled technician knowledgeable and experienced in infrastructure-as-code environments, automating patches and system configurations, orchestrating network operations and DevOps pipelines, automating and orchestrating operations, scaling releases, and supporting day-to-day system operations in commercial cloud and on-premises environments.

Primary Responsibilities:Provide Continuous Development and Continuous Integration

Including site reliability engineering and integration, release management, implementation and migration, and training and knowledge transfer.

SRE Engineering and Integration

• Automate routine tasks and software updates; document and maintain functional, integration, security, and load/stress testing procedures.
• Document and deliver an approach for automated acceptance testing and integration/regression testing for all new applications and capabilities.
• Develop Ansible playbook design, role development, and testing in non-production environments, as well as migration to production networks.

Release Management

• Participate in the development of release management processes, procedures, and policies.
• Establish, manage, update, and maintain the overall Release Management Plan and Release Schedule.
• Conduct site surveys, as necessary, to assess existing equipment and software used to validate release package requirements and dependencies.

Training & Knowledge Transfer

• Develop, document, and maintain work instruction materials for Automation and Orchestration processes.
• Provide training when substantive technological changes are introduced.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 4-8 years of hands-on site reliability engineering automation experience, ideally supporting the federal government. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• IAT Level II Baseline Certification (e.g., CCNA Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, or SSCP).
• Experience working in DevOps, Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), and Agile environments using code delivery mechanisms, continuous build systems, code repositories, and continuous delivery solutions.
• Active Secret Clearance.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Must be able to support program execution in classified environments and access SIPRNet from an NMCI location on short notice (local travel required).
• Experience with automated script design, coding, debugging, and maintenance using Bash, Python, or similar scripting languages preferred.
• Experience with CI/CD toolsets such as Jenkins and GitLab.
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Experience with chaos engineering practices and tools such as Chaos Monkey, Gremlin, or similar frameworks.
• Strong Linux/Unix and command-line knowledge.
• Experience in application administration, configuration, and integration.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.
• Ability to work effectively with distributed teams.
• Ability to work in a highly collaborative, forward-thinking, and innovation-driven environment.
• Knowledge of Agile and DevSecOps/SRE concepts and best practices, with a desire to continue growing that knowledge.
• Hands-on experience with Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc.).
• Experience creating Jira and/or Azure DevOps workflows, projects, and custom configurations.
• Experience administering and maintaining SRE platforms via Ansible playbooks (e.g., upgrading Jenkins).
• Experience automating tasks with scripting languages such as PowerShell or Python.
• Experience integrating and maintaining third-party CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and GitLab.
• Experience with PaaS environments using Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes and Docker containers.
• Experience with commercial cloud infrastructure deployment environments such as AWS and Azure.
• Experience with automated provisioning and configuration tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or similar technologies.
• Working knowledge of the Risk Management Framework (RMF) and DISA STIGs.

Preferred Qualifications:

A highly qualified candidate will also have:

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation for automating test environments.
• ITILv4, Scrum Master, or SAFe Agile certifications, or equivalent applicable experience.

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Original Posting:May 13, 2026Pay Range:Pay Range $73,450.00 - $132,775.00

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