Principal DevOps Engineer

Clarity Innovations is a trusted national security partner, dedicated to safeguarding our nation’s interests and delivering innovative solutions that empower the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) to transform data into actionable intelligence, ensuring mission success in an evolving world.

Our mission-first software and data engineering platform modernizes data operations, utilizing advanced workflows, CI/CD, and secure DevSecOps practices. We focus on challenges in Information Warfare, Cyber Operations, Operational Security, and Data Structuring, enabling end-to-end solutions that drive operational impact.

We are committed to delivering cutting-edge tools and capabilities that address the most complex national security challenges, empowering our partners to stay ahead of emerging threats and ensuring the success of their critical missions. At Clarity, we are people-focused and set on being a destination employer for top talent, offering an environment where innovation thrives, careers grow, and individuals are valued. Join us as we continue to lead innovation and tackle the most pressing challenges in national security.

Role

This position is part of a dynamic team at the forefront of prototyping a system to integrate, manage and maintain a "Hardware In the Loop" or HWIL system on an existing development network. The role presents unique opportunities, such as regular customer interaction to iterate, streamline, and improve platform capabilities to meet customer objectives. This project is a new start and as one of the senior DevOps engineers on the team you will be looked to to establish baseline CI/CD pipelines on the project.  You will be expected to provide architectural design advice, system CI/CD design leadership, and elegant solutions to the integration and management of hardware into the existing development environment. 

Responsibilities

• Develop a CI/CD system for this new start effort whose in which the goal to develop a system to seamless integrate hardware, and the management of that hardware into an existing development environment
• Develop robust and high-quality software, putting the user’s requirements first and always driving towards a working product on time 
• Build and integrate automated testing into the product’s codebase
• Facilitate delivery and deployment of operational capabilities

Requirements

• Must have and be able to obtain and maintain at least a Secret security clearance (note, only US Citizens are eligible for security clearances)
• 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
• Has experience some working with Microsoft Azure
• Strong experience creating CI/CD pipelines from scratch using at least one of GitLab CI, Jenkins, Concourse, Travis, GitHub Actions, or similar tools
• Strong experience maintaining CI/CD pipelines using at least one of the same technologies above
• Experience administering assets in a public cloud environment (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP, Oracle) 
• Entry-level experience with networking technology and concepts (e.g., difference between router and a switch) 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience maintaining CI/CD using GitLab CI
• Experience Administering assets in Azure
• Experience managing / administering network lab hardware
• Advanced  networking certifications such as:
  • CompTIA Network+ 
  • Cisco CCENT, CCNA, or CCNP
  • Juniper JNCIA, JNCIS, or JNCI

 

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.