Job Requirements
Chantilly, VA
Top Secret Polygraph not specified
Mid Level Career (5+ yrs experience)
$130,000 - $230,000
Job Description
If you're the person who makes the pipeline fast, the deploys boring, and the environments reproducible, we want to talk to you.
Linchpin Software is a small, growing company, and we're hiring a DevOps / Platform Engineer in Chantilly, VA (50% telework). You'll design, build, and improve Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines on containers and Kubernetes, and keep the core systems and networks underneath them healthy. Our pipelines deliver applications and machine learning solutions into on-prem, hybrid, and air-gapped environments, so reliability and security matter.
Here's what we care about, and we hire for it:
- Be helpful. Answer the question, share what you know, and leave things better than you found them.
- Take care of the customer. Our customers have hard missions. We listen, follow through, and make their day easier.
- Be a good teammate. Review the code, jump in on the tough bug, cover for each other, and celebrate the wins together.
We also build software differently. Our engineers use AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Codex, GitLab Duo) every day to design, code, test, and debug faster.
What You'll Do:
- Design, build, and maintain enterprise CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins
- Containerize applications and run them on Kubernetes
- Automate testing and deployment across multiple environments
- Support ML workflows and GPU-backed AI infrastructure
- Manage infrastructure as code and configuration management
- Keep core systems and networks reliable, secure, and observable
- Troubleshoot complex software, infrastructure, and deployment issues
Required:
- Active Top Secret, TS/SCI, or Intel Agency clearance
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience)
- 8+ years of relevant experience
- Designing and supporting enterprise CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins
- Docker and Kubernetes
- Scripting and automation in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar
- Cloud platforms, infrastructure automation, and configuration management
- Agile and DevOps practices
- Clear communication and a genuine willingness to help customers and teammates
Preferred:
- DevSecOps and secure software delivery
- MLOps platforms or AI/ML infrastructure
- Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible
- Git, GitLab, GitHub, or Bitbucket
- Monitoring, logging, and observability tools
- Linux systems and core networking (routing, switching, firewalls)
- Air-gapped or cross-domain environments
- AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, or Jenkins certifications
The Honest Details:
- Location: Chantilly, VA, 50% telework. You'll be on site about half the time, and we mean it.
- Pay: $130,000 - $230,000, based on experience and what you bring.
- Clearance: active Top Secret, TS/SCI, or Intel Agency clearance required. We can't sponsor one for this role.
What You'll Gain:
- Ownership of the delivery platform a growing AI program runs on
- Modern tooling across cloud, on-prem, and air-gapped environments
- A small team where your work is seen and your opinion counts
- Competitive compensation and benefits
If you like building platforms that make developers faster and you want a team that has your back, apply. A real person on our team reads every application.
Linchpin Software is a small, growing company, and we're hiring a DevOps / Platform Engineer in Chantilly, VA (50% telework). You'll design, build, and improve Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines on containers and Kubernetes, and keep the core systems and networks underneath them healthy. Our pipelines deliver applications and machine learning solutions into on-prem, hybrid, and air-gapped environments, so reliability and security matter.
Here's what we care about, and we hire for it:
- Be helpful. Answer the question, share what you know, and leave things better than you found them.
- Take care of the customer. Our customers have hard missions. We listen, follow through, and make their day easier.
- Be a good teammate. Review the code, jump in on the tough bug, cover for each other, and celebrate the wins together.
We also build software differently. Our engineers use AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Codex, GitLab Duo) every day to design, code, test, and debug faster.
What You'll Do:
- Design, build, and maintain enterprise CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins
- Containerize applications and run them on Kubernetes
- Automate testing and deployment across multiple environments
- Support ML workflows and GPU-backed AI infrastructure
- Manage infrastructure as code and configuration management
- Keep core systems and networks reliable, secure, and observable
- Troubleshoot complex software, infrastructure, and deployment issues
Required:
- Active Top Secret, TS/SCI, or Intel Agency clearance
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience)
- 8+ years of relevant experience
- Designing and supporting enterprise CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins
- Docker and Kubernetes
- Scripting and automation in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar
- Cloud platforms, infrastructure automation, and configuration management
- Agile and DevOps practices
- Clear communication and a genuine willingness to help customers and teammates
Preferred:
- DevSecOps and secure software delivery
- MLOps platforms or AI/ML infrastructure
- Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible
- Git, GitLab, GitHub, or Bitbucket
- Monitoring, logging, and observability tools
- Linux systems and core networking (routing, switching, firewalls)
- Air-gapped or cross-domain environments
- AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, or Jenkins certifications
The Honest Details:
- Location: Chantilly, VA, 50% telework. You'll be on site about half the time, and we mean it.
- Pay: $130,000 - $230,000, based on experience and what you bring.
- Clearance: active Top Secret, TS/SCI, or Intel Agency clearance required. We can't sponsor one for this role.
What You'll Gain:
- Ownership of the delivery platform a growing AI program runs on
- Modern tooling across cloud, on-prem, and air-gapped environments
- A small team where your work is seen and your opinion counts
- Competitive compensation and benefits
If you like building platforms that make developers faster and you want a team that has your back, apply. A real person on our team reads every application.
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