Systems Engineer - DevOps Kubernetes Support

About the role

CACI is seeking a Systems Engineer to support DevOps activities for the Zero Trust Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ZT ICAM) program and its deployments for DoD customers. Working under the direction of senior engineers, the engineer helps with automated build, testing, packaging, deployment, monitoring and release activities, supports Linux and containerized environments, and maintains repeatable deployment configurations and technical documentation. The position requires foundational DevOps knowledge and practical experience with Kubernetes.

Key responsibilities

• Support continuous integration and delivery pipelines, automated builds, testing, artifact packaging and release activities.
• Assist with deploying and sustaining containerized applications in Kubernetes environments.
• Maintain configuration files, scripts, deployment manifests, repositories and version-controlled engineering artifacts.
• Configure and troubleshoot workloads, services, namespaces, ConfigMaps, Secrets, storage, networking and access controls.
• Monitor pipeline and deployment results, review logs and system health, document issues and support corrective actions.
• Assist with container and dependency scanning, vulnerability remediation tracking, software bills of materials and release evidence.
• Support customer deployment activities by collecting environment information, executing documented procedures and escalating technical issues.
• Develop and maintain setup instructions, deployment checklists, troubleshooting notes, release documentation and other technical guides.

Required profile

• TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
• Seven years of experience as a systems engineer supporting programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity.
• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management or a related discipline; five years of additional systems engineering experience may substitute for the degree.
• DoD 8570 compliance with IAT Level I or higher, if the position involves CWIP activities.

Required skills

• Desired: RKE2, Rancher, Helm, Kustomize, Kubernetes package configuration, and single- or multi-namespace deployments.
• Desired: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Ansible, Terraform or comparable automation tools.
• Desired: security scanning, vulnerability management, software bills of materials, artifact signing, container registries and software supply chain practices.
• Desired: REST APIs, JSON, PKI, mutual TLS, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect and enterprise identity and access management concepts.
• Desired: experience with classified, disconnected or air-gapped environments, and with Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Word, SharePoint or Git repositories.

What we offer

• Proposed pay range of $94,400 - $198,200, depending on location, contract wage rates, experience, skills and education.
• Healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education and time off benefits.
• A flexible time off benefit and access to learning resources.