Senior Principal DevOps Engineer

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Columbia, MD
7+ Years Experience
Software
The Role
The Senior Principal DevOps Engineer will lead the design and implementation of scalable cloud infrastructure solutions, focusing on simplifying infrastructure management for cyber operations. Responsibilities include prototyping infrastructure designs, creating design documents, and mentoring junior engineers, while ensuring successful project lifecycle management from discovery to deployment.
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Company Overview

CCG is a technology company focused on equipping customers with the capabilities and support to conduct intelligent and successful cyber operations. We do this by finding the most talented engineers and operators in the country, give them some of the most challenging problems facing the US government, and help them unleash their creativity and problem-solving skills. Excellence is our standard and mission success is our metric.

Role

This position is part of a dynamic team at the forefront of prototyping infrastructure designs to support the next generation of cyber network operations. In this role, you will contribute to developing a platform that simplifies complex infrastructure management across cloud-native and on-premises environments. Your work will involve architecting scalable systems, implementing GitOps workflows for version-controlled and automated operations, and designing declarative interfaces. The goal is to create tools and processes that bridge the gap between development and operations, enhancing productivity and reliability in diverse infrastructure settings. The role presents unique opportunities, such as regular customer interaction to iterate, streamline, and multiply platform capabilities to meet customer objectives of broad deployment and exceptional flexibility. You will be expected to provide architectural design leadership, systems design leadership, and elegant solutions to pressing operational challenges.

Responsibilities

  • Lead infrastructure prototyping efforts to validate cloud architecture design and technologies, while supporting the full project lifecycle from discovery to production deployment and ongoing support
  • Communicate through thoughtful and thorough design documents for new initiatives.
  • Design and implement robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure cloud solutions aligned with overall product vision.
  • Foster a collaborative team environment, mentoring junior engineers and coordinating efforts across cross-functional teams to ensure project success

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline. (Degree requirement can be met with four years of hands-on experience in a Software Engineering or similar full-time position.)
  • Ability to collaborate as a team but execute independently
  • Thrives in a high-trust, adaptable team environment
  • Familiar with contributing to or leading the design of new capabilities
  • Proficient with Kubernetes (K8s) deployment strategies, cluster lifecycle (deployment, troubleshooting, scaling), and container orchestration
  • Experience deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters on major cloud platforms, particularly Azure and AWS
  • Experience implementing modern DevOps practices and tools (e.g., CI/CD, IaC, GitOps) in production deployment workflows

Preferred Qualifications 

  • Current US TS/SCI security clearance
  • Experience writing code in a general-purpose language such as Python or GoLang
  • Familiarity with Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) utilities


Top Skills

Go
Python
The Company
HQ: Herndon, Virginia
127 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

Chameleon Consulting Group, LLC was founded by a small group of professionals with extensive experience in cyber operations, software engineering, data analysis, and physical operations across DoD and IC. Our foremost focus is on our customers and their mission success. Our goal is to be a trusted partner and "go-to" provider of critical cyberspace mission capabilites and expertise for our customers. Our growing team is comprised of professionals who are experts in their trade and passionate about their work.

As a company, we are committed to providing our employees a rewarding and fun work environment, opportunities for professional and personal development, exciting and meaningful work, and a corporate culture that is their own. Whether you are a potential client or team member, CCG excels at meeting and exceeding your expectations.

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