Senior DevOps Engineer

TheIncLab

full-time

Posted on: 9/24/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Tennessee, Virginia

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About the role

Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD or similar tools
Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and maintenance using Terraform, Ansible, or related technologies
Collaborate with developers and QA to create reliable deployment paths from local dev to production
Implement infrastructure-as-code practices across environments (e.g., AWS, Kubernetes, bare-metal)
Design and implement monitoring, alerting, and observability systems to maintain high availability and performance
Respond to incidents, lead root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures
Establish and evolve SLOs/SLIs to ensure measurable system reliability
Participate in on-call rotation and build automation to reduce human intervention
Drive capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost optimization initiatives
Administer Linux (Ubuntu/Debian) and Windows-based infrastructure
Manage self-hosted GitLab instances and ensure secure, performant operation
Implement and enforce security best practices across infrastructure (IAM, RBAC, least privilege)
Support both containerized and virtualized workloads across environments

5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering roles
Hands-on experience and proficiency with AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, etc.)
Experience deploying and managing infrastructure using Terraform and/or Ansible
Proven experience managing and automating GitLab, including CI/CD pipelines
Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language (Python, Bash, etc.)
Solid knowledge of Linux system administration (Ubuntu/Debian)
Strong skills in Windows system administration environments
Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions (CloudWatch, Datadog, CloudTrail)
Solid understanding of networking, security best practices, and high-availability system design
Familiarity with version control systems (Git) and GitLab workflows
Strong troubleshooting and incident response skills, with a focus on automation and root cause analysis
Ability to travel up to 20%
Applicants must be a U.S. Citizen and willing and eligible to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance at the Secret or Top-Secret level (existing clearance preferred)