At Two Six Technologies, we build, deploy, and implement innovative products that solve the world’s most complex challenges today. Through unrivaled collaboration and unwavering trust, we push the boundaries of what’s possible to empower our team and support our customers in building a safer global future.
Two Six Technologies is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to work within a cross-functional development team focused on advancing state-of-the-art projects within the growing cybersecurity technology team in Arlington VA.
Expectations as a Senior Engineer:
• Proactive Problem Solving: Demonstrate a strong drive to independently identify challenges and propose effective, scalable solutions.
• Technical Acumen: Apply deep technical intuition and critical thinking when tackling complex or unfamiliar problems.
• Results-Oriented: Prioritize metrics-driven outcomes and consistently deliver work that creates measurable, meaningful impact.
• Documentation Excellence: Maintain a habit of thoroughly documenting code, system designs, and processes to ensure clarity and long-term maintainability.
• Mentorship and Collaboration: Exhibit a passion for mentoring team members, fostering collaboration, and sharing knowledge to elevate the entire team.
• Determination: Willingness to stick with a project/task till completion while others on the team tackle different projects.
What you will Do:
• Troubleshoot and investigate issues at the Linux operating system level, including services, logs, permissions, networking, packages, and runtime behavior.
• Explore, understand, and debug developer code across multiple languages and frameworks in order to determine how applications are built, configured, deployed, and executed.
• Trace problems across the full deployment path, from source code and build pipelines to containers, operating systems, infrastructure, and runtime environments.
• Work independently or in small groups through unfamiliar or quickly changing systems by reading documentation, inspecting code/configuration, testing assumptions, and narrowing down root causes.
What you will need (basic qualifications):
• Proficiency in Coding: Strong expertise in scripting languages, with a primary focus on Python and bash scripting.
• Design Patterns Expertise: Demonstrated ability to apply software design patterns to build robust, maintainable, and reusable code architectures.
• CI/CD and Tooling: Expert proficiency in CI/CD tooling and pipelines, with hands-on experience using tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab Pipelines.
• Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field or comparable experience.
• Experience: Minimum of 5 years of technical coding experience
• DevOps Experience: Minimum of 3 years of experience implementing and supporting DevOps practices in a production environment.
• Containerization Proficiency: Significant experience working with containerization technologies, particularly Docker.
• Modern Development Practices: Proficiency in modern software development practices, including version control (e.g., Git), CI/CD pipelines, and agile methodologies.
• Scalable Architecture Design: Proven experience designing and implementing scalable architectures in production environments.
• Collaboration Tools: Proficiency in using project management and collaboration tools like JIRA and Confluence.
Nice if you Have:
• Cloud Expertise: Experience with major cloud service providers, including AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.
• Containerization and Orchestration: Familiarity with tools like Kubernetes, Helm, EKS, and ArgoCD.
• Web Frameworks: Hands-on experience with Python frameworks such as Django or FastAPI.
• Automation and Configuration Management: Experience with tools like Chef, Ansible, or Puppet to streamline infrastructure management.
• Virtualization Knowledge: General understanding and experience with virtualization technologies, such as VMware, Hyper-V, or Xen.
• Infrastructure Best Practices: Knowledge of best practices for infrastructure security, reliability, and fault tolerance.
• Cybersecurity Awareness: Familiarity with cybersecurity systems and principles to safeguard infrastructure and applications.
• Clearance Requirement:
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance
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Two Six Technologies is committed to providing competitive and comprehensive compensation packages that reflect the value we place on our employees and their contributions. We believe in rewarding skills, experience, and performance. Our offerings include but are not limited to, medical, dental, and vision insurance, life and disability insurance, retirement benefits, paid leave, tuition assistance and professional development.
The projected salary range listed for this position is annualized. This is a general guideline and not a guarantee of salary. Salary is one component of our total compensation package and the specific salary offered is determined by various factors, including, but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills, geographic location, as well as contract specific affordability and organizational requirements.
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Skills Required
- Strong expertise in scripting languages, primarily Python and bash scripting.
- Ability to apply software design patterns to build robust, maintainable code architectures.
- Expert proficiency with CI/CD tooling and pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab Pipelines).
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field or comparable experience.
- Minimum of 5 years of technical coding experience.
- Minimum of 3 years implementing and supporting DevOps practices in production environments.
- Significant experience with containerization technologies, particularly Docker.
- Proficiency with version control (Git), CI/CD pipelines, and agile methodologies.
- Proven experience designing and implementing scalable architectures in production.
- Experience troubleshooting and investigating issues at the Linux operating system level.
- Proficiency using collaboration and project management tools such as JIRA and Confluence.
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI (TS/SCI) clearance.
- Experience with major cloud providers (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, Helm, EKS, and ArgoCD.
- Hands-on experience with Python web frameworks such as Django or FastAPI.
- Experience with automation/configuration management tools (Chef, Ansible, Puppet).
- Understanding of virtualization technologies (VMware, Hyper-V, Xen).
- Familiarity with infrastructure security, reliability, fault tolerance, and cybersecurity principles.
What We Do
Two Six Technologies provides cybersecurity and advanced technology solutions that support missions critical to U.S. national security. Our expertise includes R&D, innovation, productization and implementation in the technology fields of cyber, data science, mobile, microelectronics and information operations. We offer a family of operationally deployed products including Pulse, IKE™, SIGMA™, 8Wire™ and others. Major customers include DARPA, Department of State, U.S. Cyber Command, Department of Homeland Security and the broader Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. Two Six Technologies is a high-growth business with over 285 employees currently, and a global operational footprint that includes a technical presence in more than 40 countries, coupled with native proficiency in more than 20 languages.
