What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal DevOps Engineer position at clarityinnovates?
Clarity Innovations is a trusted national security partner, dedicated to safeguarding our nation’s interests and delivering innovative solutions that empower the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) to transform data into actionable intelligence, ensuring mission success in an evolving world.
Our mission-first software and data engineering platform modernizes data operations, utilizing advanced workflows, CI/CD, and secure DevSecOps practices. We focus on challenges in Information Warfare, Cyber Operations, Operational Security, and Data Structuring, enabling end-to-end solutions that drive operational impact.
We are committed to delivering cutting-edge tools and capabilities that address the most complex national security challenges, empowering our partners to stay ahead of emerging threats and ensuring the success of their critical missions. At Clarity, we are people-focused and set on being a destination employer for top talent, offering an environment where innovation thrives, careers grow, and individuals are valued. Join us as we continue to lead innovation and tackle the most pressing challenges in national security.
Role
This position is part of a team at the forefront of developing critical components of a next generation, distributed cyber network operations platform providing novel solutions to challenges that cyber missions face at scale. The person in this role engages with end-users to identify the real technical barriers to their mission success, builds appropriate technical solutions in coordination with a small team, and supports deployment of those solutions in a rapid and streamlined manner directly on operational infrastructure.
The ideal candidate understands that the mission we support is bigger than any one individual and has a massive impact on our country’s national security. The team dynamic is relational, humble, and excellent. We own up to our mistakes quickly and readily, we think about how our work affects the personal lives of our teammates, and we do not settle for average solutions.
Required Qualifications:
- Current Top Secret security clearance SCI eligibility and the ability to obtain and maintain a CI Polygraph
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline. (Degree requirement can be met with four years of hands-on experience in a Software Engineering or similar full-time position.)
- Experience with Kubernetes (K8s) deployment strategies, cluster lifecycle (deployment, troubleshooting, scaling), and container orchestration.
- Experience integrating or building new software solutions for real-world applications
- Understanding of complex distributed systems and topologies, ability to learn and describe complex architectures to customer stakeholders
- Knowledge of security concepts, networks, and system internals to apply in daily tasks.
- Proficient in Linux-based development environments (e.g., Ubuntu, RedHat Enterprise Linux, or derivatives).
- Proficient with version control software such as Git and hosted code repositories, such as GitLab.
- Experience implementing modern DevOps practices and tools (e.g., CI/CD, IaC, GitOps) in production deployment workflows.
Languages:
- Python
- Golang
Technologies:
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Docker
- Azure
- Kubernetes-native VM orchestration (e.g. KubeVirt)
- Rook-Ceph or similar HA storage solution
- Istio or similar service mesh
- Strongswan or equivalent VPNs
- Registries (e.g. Harbor)
- Keycloak or similar IAM solutions
- GitLab CI/CD Pipelines
- GitOps (Flux or ArgoCD)
- IaC (Terraform and Ansible)
- Kubernetes-native certificate management (e.g. cert-manager)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Azure Stack Hub (or other Hybrid Cloud technologies and architectures)
- Experience as an operator, developer, or analyst for computer network operations
- Experience working within SAFe and Agile Release Trains
- Hands-on experience working in classified cloud environments in a SCIF
- Experience with AWS
- Cloud, Kubernetes, or DevOps certifications