DevOps Automation Engineer; Top Secret

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Dev Ops Automation Engineer to support a critical, long‑term, Defense program near Boulder, CO
. The team is seeking an individual with expertise implementing, automating, and scaling services within cloud environments for Federal Defense and National Intelligence customers.

Location: Boulder, CO (100% on-site, 9/80 schedule)

Clearance: Top Secret, TS/SCI preferred

This job opens for applications on 2/17/2026. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date

• Assist with the design, automate, and maintain container orchestration platforms.
• Build, configure, and deploy core infrastructure services—including identity and access management, network architecture, application security, logging, monitoring, and deployment pipelines.
• Collaborate closely with the team to plan and implement major product updates and enhancements.
• Provide architecture guidance, data migration implementation, and troubleshooting support to the implementation of services in the cloud.
• Create pipelines using Ansible playbooks, and/or terraform configurations to automate administrative actions from creation to configuration.
• Support production grade applications in virtualized and cloud environments using automation.

• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of relevant work experience or Masters and 6+ years of related experience
• Active Top Secret clearance required, TS/SCI highly preferred
• Experience working with, or are familiar with the differences between, public (AWS, Azure), private (RHOSP, VIO), and mixed cloud environments
• Container technologies such as Docker, or Kubernetes
• Deployment or use of continuous integration and continuous deployment technologies such as Git Lab, Jenkins, Puppet, or Chef
• Utilizes Ansible playbooks and/or terraform configurations to automate administrative tasks
• Experience with encryption, certificates, key management, patch management, STIG, RMF, or security hardening, and auditing
• Installation of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) technologies such as Amazon Web Services, Open Stack, RHOSP, or VIO
• Management of Cloud Resources in Amazon Web Services, and/or Azure
• Platform as a Service (PaaS) technologies such as Kubernetes, Rancher, or Open Shift
• Open source server, messaging, load balancing, and database software (such as Rabbit
  
  MQ, Redis, Elasticsearch)
• Scalable networking technologies such as Load Balancers (NGINX)/Firewalls and web standards (REST APIs, web security mechanisms)

• Total compensation based on experience level - $140,000-$158,000 based on years of experience
• Full Benefits: PTO, Paid Holidays, Sick leave as required by state law, Medical, Dental, and Vision, 401k
• Program funded through 2030