DevOps Engineer III

Luna Data Solutions is seeking a DevOps Engineer III for a long term hybrid contract opportunity in San Antonio.

• 2 days onsite/3 days remote in San Antonio

*** Must currently live in San Antonio area, not looking for candidates that need to relocate ***

• Long term contract, 12 months, can extend

• Provide senior systems administration, platform operations, and DevOps automation support for business IT and mission support environments.
• Operate, secure, monitor, and improve Windows, Linux, macOS, virtualization, cloud, container, endpoint, identity, and collaboration services used by a small IT team supporting a growing agency.
• Develop, maintain, and operate scripts, runbooks, source-controlled operational repositories, infrastructure and configuration artifacts, and repeatable procedures.
• Use scripting, APIs, git-based workflows, CI/CD practices, configuration management, and orchestration tools to reduce manual work, improve service reliability, and support secure change execution.
• Support Kubernetes and containerized services, VMware administration, and public cloud operations across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including monitoring, alerting, backup and recovery coordination, patching, vulnerability remediation, and operational documentation.
• Implement and maintain SOAR playbooks and automation that support security operations, incident response, evidence preservation, service restoration, ticket enrichment, notification workflows, and routine maintenance.
• Participate in migration, buildout, stabilization, and sustainment activities.
• Support secure configuration baselines, access controls, privileged operations, incident response support, audit evidence, technical transition materials, and knowledge transfer.
• Coordinate with internal personnel and approved vendors to execute work under internal priorities and security requirements.

Minimum Requirements

• 8 years of senior systems administration, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure operations experience supporting enterprise or government environments.
• 5 years of hands-on administration of Linux and Windows server or endpoint environments, including patching, hardening, service troubleshooting, logging, and automation.
• 3 years of macOS administration or enterprise endpoint support, including device management, user support, configuration baselines, software deployment, or security controls.
• 3 years of VMware, vSphere, or equivalent virtualization experience, including VM provisioning, templates, networking coordination, snapshots, backup coordination, performance, and capacity.
• 3 years of Kubernetes or container platform administration, including deployments, manifests, Helm or equivalent tooling, container images, RBAC, troubleshooting, and operational monitoring.
• 3 years of Git based workflows, source control, branching, peer review, repository-based documentation, CI/CD concepts, secrets hygiene, and controlled change execution.
• 3 years of scripting and automation using at least two languages or shells such as PowerShell, Bash, Python, Go, JavaScript, or similar, including use of APIs and scheduled automation.
• 2 years of public cloud operations experience across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including IAM, networking concepts, compute, storage, logging, monitoring, and secure configuration.
• 2 years of security operations automation or SOAR experience, including playbook development, alert enrichment, ticket or case automation, containment support, and integration of SIEM, EDR, cloud, or ITSM tools.
• 2 years of support for security hardening, vulnerability remediation, incident response, service restoration, audit evidence, backup and recovery coordination, or regulated data environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 years of experience with Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Intune, Defender, Purview, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Workspace, or equivalent identity, endpoint, collaboration, and security platforms.
• 3 years of experience with Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, or deployment automation such as Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or equivalent tools.
• 2 years of experience supporting SOC, incident response, digital forensics, threat intelligence, emergency operations, public sector, critical infrastructure, or 24x7 operational environments.
• 2 years of experience with monitoring and observability, including logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alert tuning, capacity planning, and service-level reporting.
• Linux, Microsoft, VMware, Kubernetes, cloud, SRE, security, ITIL, automation, or similar certification.

What Luna Data Offers

• Competitive compensation and benefits, including health, dental, vision, life, accident, and disability insurance.
• Great work-life balance.
• Work on high profile projects.

This is a contract opportunity based in San Antonio, TX and no sponsorship can be provided. Luna Data Solutions, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees. All applicants will be considered for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to age, race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, national origin, genetics, protected veteran status, and/or disability status.