DevOps Engineer
Haystack
seniorpermanentdevops Washington, DC 80 days ago via LinkedIn
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KubernetesHelmLinuxCI/CDGitLabElasticsearchKafkaDevOps AutomationContainersTS/SCI Polygraph Clearance
About the role
Role Overview
Deploy, triage, and maintain a production big-data pipeline built on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, and Kafka. Improve reliability and accelerate development through DevOps automation and CI/CD enhancements.
Responsibilities
- Deploy, monitor (triage), and maintain a production big-data pipeline.
- Enhance and maintain CI/CD pipelines and DevOps automation.
- Design and support scalable, redundant infrastructure across physical and virtual environments.
- Use Helm to configure Kubernetes deployments for new features and changing requirements.
- Partner with Systems Engineers to architect solutions for new capabilities.
- Contribute to engineering documentation, diagrams, and models.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years relevant experience (or 6+ years with a Master’s).
- Active TS/SCI clearance and ability to obtain/maintain TS/SCI with Polygraph.
- Strong Linux proficiency.
- Hands-on experience with containers and Kubernetes.
- Experience with CI/CD orchestration and GitLab.
- Familiarity with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana.
Nice to Have
- Not explicitly stated (focuses on listed big-data stack and CI/CD tooling).
About Haystack
Haystack appears to be a partner-based hiring organization, placing candidates with client organizations on technology roles. The posting focuses on DevOps work supporting mission-critical, big-data production pipelines using Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, and Kafka.
Scraped 7/5/2026