Entry Level Devops Engineer Jobs in Halethorpe, MD

Markon is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to support the Fort Meade customer by engineering, deploying, and sustaining secure mission-critical systems across Linux, cloud, and containerized environments. This role applies DevSecOps practices, Kubernetes orchestration, infrastructure automation, and systems administration expertise to streamline deployments, improve system reliability, and maintain highly available operational capabilities. The DevOps Engineer will provide hands-on technical support throughout the system lifecycle, including integration, deployment, troubleshooting, maintenance, and operational sustainment.

• Engineer, deploy, configure, and sustain mission-critical systems across Linux, cloud, and containerized environments.
• Administer Linux-based infrastructure and troubleshoot complex operating system, application, network, and infrastructure issues.
• Deploy, configure, and maintain containerized applications and services using Kubernetes and related technologies.
• Administer and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters and cluster orchestration environments supporting production workloads.
• Implement DevSecOps practices to automate software builds, testing, deployment, configuration, and infrastructure management.
• Develop and maintain automated deployment and configuration processes to improve system consistency, security, and reliability.
• Support software releases and system deployments across development, test, staging, and operational environments.
• Integrate cloud, compute, network, storage, and container technologies within secure mission environments.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows for mission applications and infrastructure.
• Monitor system health, availability, capacity, and performance and proactively identify operational risks.
• Troubleshoot critical system discrepancies and coordinate resolution across development, infrastructure, network, and operations teams.
• Support system integration, testing, installation, upgrades, patching, maintenance, and operational sustainment.
• Develop and maintain system configurations, deployment procedures, troubleshooting guides, and technical documentation.
• Provide 24/7 on-call support as required to resolve critical operational system issues.
• Travel as required to support information system installation, integration, maintenance, and troubleshooting.

Required Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph with this Customer. 
• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or Computer Science and 12+ years of relevant experience. An additional 4 years of relevant experience may be substituted in lieu of a Bachelor's degree. A Master of Science degree in Engineering or Computer Science may substitute for 2 years of required experience.
• Experience with DevSecOps, software and system deployments, Linux system administration, containerization, and cloud environments.
• Recent experience within the last 3 years working with Kubernetes.
• Recent experience within the last 3 years supporting cluster orchestration environments.
• Recent experience within the last 3 years deploying and sustaining containerized applications and infrastructure.
• Experience supporting automated software deployment, configuration management, and CI/CD processes.
• Experience troubleshooting complex Linux, container, cloud, network, and application integration issues.
• Active IAT Level II CWIP / DoD 8570-compliant certification, such as Security+.
• Active CCNA certification.
• Ability to provide 24/7 on-call support for critical operational system discrepancies.
• Ability and willingness to travel for system installation, maintenance, integration, and troubleshooting.

• Experience supporting Intelligence Community or Department of Defense mission systems.
• Experience with Ansible, Terraform, or comparable infrastructure automation technologies.
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Docker or comparable container technologies.
• Experience administering highly available, production-scale Kubernetes environments.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automated configuration management.
• Experience with system monitoring, centralized logging, and observability technologies.
• Experience integrating cloud, network, compute, storage, and container infrastructure in secure enterprise environments.

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Markon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status. This job posting will remain open until the position is filled.

Benefits Offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Training and Tuition Assistance, Paid Time Off, and Holidays.