Junior Systems Engineer — DevOps & Kubernetes

Job overview

The Junior Systems Engineer — DevOps & Kubernetes role is onsite in Fort Meade, MD. Compensation is $105,000–$200,000 per year. The engineer supports Belay Technologies' intelligence team and the Zero Trust Identity, Credential, and Access Management program for Department of Defense customers. Working under senior engineers, the role assists with repeatable build, test, packaging, deployment, monitoring, and release activities. This work helps sustain an integrated enterprise solution across varied customer environments while supporting secure, documented deployments.

What you'll do

• Assist with continuous integration and delivery pipelines, automated builds, testing, artifact packaging, and release activities.
• Support deployment and sustainment of containerized applications in Kubernetes environments under senior engineer guidance.
• Maintain configuration files, scripts, deployment manifests, repositories, and version-controlled 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, document issues, and support corrective actions.
• Assist with scanning, vulnerability remediation tracking, software bills of materials, release evidence, customer deployments, and technical documentation.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

systems engineer

devops

kubernetes

ci/cd

linux

containerized applications

ts/sci clearance

polygraph

fort meade md

belay technologies

$105k–$200k/year

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Eight weeks paid leave, 11 paid holidays, 10% 401(k) match vested on day one, $5,000 annual training/tuition, student loan repayment, company-funded HSA, medical and dental coverage, and life insurance.

Why this role

Requires TS/SCI clearance with polygraph and seven or more years of systems engineering experience in programs of similar scope, type, and complexity. A bachelor's degree in a related discipline is required, or five additional years of systems engineering experience may substitute. Benefits include eight weeks of paid leave, 11 paid holidays, 10% 401(k) match vested on day one, $5,000 annual training/tuition, student loan repayment, company-funded HSA, and medical, dental, and life coverage.

About the employer

Belay Technologies is hiring for this role. Industry: Engineering Services. Sector: 54.