San Antonio, TX
DevOps Engineer - Solicitation# 37100049A
Texas Cyber Command (TXCC)
 

• Provide senior systems administration, platform operations, and DevOps automation support for Texas Cyber Command business IT and mission support environments. Operate, secure, monitor, and improve Windows, Linux, macOS, virtualization, cloud, container, endpoint, identity, and collaboration services used by a small IT team supporting a growing agency.
• Develop, maintain, and operate scripts, runbooks, source-controlled operational repositories, infrastructure and configuration artifacts, and repeatable procedures. Use scripting, APIs, git-based workflows, CI/CD practices, configuration management, and orchestration tools to reduce manual work, improve service reliability, and support secure change execution.
• Support Kubernetes and containerized services, VMware administration, public cloud operations across AWS, Azure, and GCP, monitoring, alerting, backup and recovery coordination, patching, vulnerability remediation, and operational documentation. Implement and maintain SOAR playbooks and automation that support security operations, incident response, evidence preservation, service restoration, ticket enrichment, notification workflows, and routine maintenance.
• Participate in migration, buildout, stabilization, and sustainment activities. Support secure configuration baselines, access controls, privileged operations, incident response support, audit evidence, technical transition materials, and knowledge transfer. Coordinate with TXCC personnel and approved vendors to execute work under TXCC priorities and security requirements.

Candidate must be a U.S. citizen, pass required background checks, complete required cybersecurity, privacy, and operational training before gaining system access, and comply with TXCC security and data-handling requirements. Occasional after-hours support may be required with TXCC approval. Work must be performed from within the United States unless TXCC grants prior written approval.
Initial term anticipated for 12 months; extension subject to agency need, funding, and ITSAC terms. Travel, after-hours work, and overtime require prior written approval. Work products, including diagrams, runbooks, scripts, reports, repositories, automation workflows, configuration artifacts, and transition materials, are deliverables to TXCC. Contractor shall use only TXCC-approved accounts and repositories and shall not use TXCC information to train AI or ML systems without express written approval.
The working position is Hybrid - On Site and Telework.
 

Minimum Requirements: Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.
Actual Years Experience	Years Experience Needed	Required/ Preferred	Skills/Experience
	8	Required	Senior systems administration, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure operations experience supporting enterprise or government environments.
	5	Required	Hands-on administration of Linux and Windows server or endpoint environments, including patching, hardening, service troubleshooting, logging, and automation.
	3	Required	macOS administration or enterprise endpoint support, including device management, user support, configuration baselines, software deployment, or security controls.
	3	Required	VMware, vSphere, or equivalent virtualization experience, including VM provisioning, templates, networking coordination, snapshots, backup coordination, performance, and capacity.
	3	Required	Kubernetes or container platform administration, including deployments, manifests, Helm or equivalent tooling, container images, RBAC, troubleshooting, and operational monitoring.
	3	Required	Git based workflows, source control, branching, peer review, repository-based documentation, CI/CD concepts, secrets hygiene, and controlled change execution.
	3	Required	Scripting and automation using at least two languages or shells such as PowerShell, Bash, Python, Go, JavaScript, or similar, including use of APIs and scheduled automation.
	2	Required	Public cloud operations experience across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including IAM, networking concepts, compute, storage, logging, monitoring, and secure configuration.
	2	Required	Security operations automation or SOAR experience, including playbook development, alert enrichment, ticket or case automation, containment support, and integration of SIEM, EDR, cloud, or ITSM tools.
	2	Required	Support for security hardening, vulnerability remediation, incident response, service restoration, audit evidence, backup and recovery coordination, or regulated data environments.
	3	Preferred	Experience with Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Intune, Defender, Purview, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Workspace, or equivalent identity, endpoint, collaboration, and security platforms.
	3	Preferred	Experience with infrastructure as code, configuration management, or deployment automation such as Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or equivalent tools.
	2	Preferred	Experience supporting SOC, incident response, digital forensics, threat intelligence, emergency operations, public sector, critical infrastructure, or 24x7 operational environments.
	2	Preferred	Experience with monitoring and observability, including logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alert tuning, capacity planning, and service-level reporting.
	1	Preferred	Linux, Microsoft, VMware, Kubernetes, cloud, SRE, security, ITIL, automation, or similar certification, or equivalent demonstrated experience.

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