Job Description

Systems Engineer DevOps Support

Salary Range:$167-193K

Location: Hanover, MD

Security Clearance Required: TS/SCI with MD polygraph

About US

Capstone Technology Partners delivers mission-ready cybersecurity, engineering, and AI-enhanced software solutions for federal defense clients. We combine deep technical expertise with a people-first culture to help modernize securely, accelerate capability delivery, and strengthen operational resilience. Our work supports DoW, with proven experience in ICAM, Zero Trust, cloud-native engineering, and secure Agile development.

Capstone is built on Collaboration, Culture, Connection, and Community. Values that guide every engagement and every mission we support. We deliver secure, scalable solutions designed to meet the evolving demands of our clients’ operations.

Systems Engineer supporting DevOps activities for the Zero Trust Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ZT ICAM) program and deployments for DOD customers. Working under the direction of senior engineers, the individual will assist with automated build, test, packaging, deployment, monitoring, and release activities; support Linux and containerized environments; and help maintain repeatable deployment configurations and technical documentation. The position requires foundational DevOps knowledge and some practical experience with Kubernetes, with an interest in expanding those skills while supporting an integrated enterprise solution across varied customer environments.

Responsibilities

Support continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, automated builds, testing, artifact packaging, and release activities.

• Assist with deployment and sustainment of containerized applications in Kubernetes environments under the guidance of senior engineers.
• Maintain configuration files, scripts, deployment manifests, repositories, and version-controlled engineering artifacts.
• Help configure and troubleshoot workloads, services, namespaces, ConfigMaps, Secrets, storage, networking, and access controls.
• Monitor pipeline and deployment results, review logs and system health information, document issues, and support corrective actions.
• Assist with container and dependency scanning, vulnerability remediation tracking, software bills of materials, and release evidence.
• Support DISA and other DoW 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.

Desrired Skills:

Experience with RKE2, Rancher, Helm, Kustomize, Kubernetes package configuration, or single- and multi-namespace deployments.

• Familiarity with Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Ansible, Terraform, or comparable automation and infrastructure tools.
• Exposure to security scanning, vulnerability management, software bills of materials, artifact signing, container registries, or software supply chain practices.
• Familiarity with REST APIs, JSON, PKI, mutual TLS, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, or enterprise identity and access management concepts.
• Experience supporting classified, disconnected, air-gapped, or otherwise restricted customer environments.
• Experience using Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Word, SharePoint, or Git-based repositories to manage work and technical documentation.

Required:

-TS/SCI with MD Polygraph security clearance

-7+ years of System Engineering experience in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.

-Bachelor's degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or a related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. 5 years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree for a total of 12 years

• Benefits:
• Offering a very competitive benefits package because we care about our employees. Our offerings including:
• Four (4) weeks paid time
• Eleven Paid Holidays
• 401k plan with 4% employer contributions and immediate vesting plus annual 3% contruibution
• Annual Bonuses for performance
• Medical, Dental, and Vision and insurance
• Education and Training budget provided
• Technical Certification and coursework budget for computer/program expenses
• Gym Membership Reimbursement
• Amazon Prime Membership Reimbursement
• Birthday Club
• Capstone Swag