DevOps Jobs in Maryland
DevOps jobs in Maryland are concentrated in federal contracting, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and defense technology, with strong demand at every level from junior engineer to principal architect. Most hiring is in Baltimore, Annapolis, and the D.C. suburbs of Bethesda and Columbia, where large employers like Leidos, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Northrop Grumman maintain significant engineering teams. Container orchestration, CI/CD pipeline development, and cloud security tooling are the specialties appearing most consistently in Maryland postings. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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Open roles104+
Top employerLeidos
Top cityAnnapolis Junction, MD
Cities hiring25
Work type45% Hybrid
Top industryTechnology
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Markon
DevOps Engineer 3
Fort Meade, Maryland
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Senior DevOps / MLOps Engineer
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SimpliGov
Senior DevOps / MLOps Engineer
Baltimore, Maryland
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SOC Infrastructure DevOps Engineer
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Booz Allen Hamilton
SOC Infrastructure DevOps Engineer
Annapolis Junction, Maryland
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Senior DevOps Automation Engineer
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Nyla Technology Solutions
Senior DevOps Automation Engineer
Annapolis Junction, Maryland
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Systems Engineer, DevOps- Level 2
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Power3 Solutions
Systems Engineer, DevOps- Level 2
Annapolis Junction, Maryland
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DevOps Engineer 3
Markon·Fort Meade, Maryland
Job functions:
$260k - $270k/yr
Bachelor of Science
51-200 employees
Job Description
Description:
The Markon pay range for this position is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law. Overview:
At Markon, we don't just offer jobs – we offer opportunities for personal and professional transformation. Empowering our employees to lead, innovate, and excel, we foster an environment where new ideas are not just welcomed but celebrated. As a perennial Washington Post Top Workplace, we prioritize the well-being and success of our team members, ensuring they can bring their best selves to work.
Headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, Markon has garnered national recognition for our unwavering dedication to excellence in serving the intelligence community, as well as federal civilian and defense agencies. Our growing reach extends across 17 states, 116 countries, and 5 continents, where our team of dynamic professionals collaborates to deliver unparalleled program and project management services.
Markon values people and the tremendous impact each individual can make – which is why we’re consistently recognized as one of the best places to work in federal government consulting. Here, you can help solve the nation’s most important challenges, surrounded by colleagues who help you grow, advance, and succeed. We are deeply dedicated to what matters – bringing out the best in each other to advance our clients’ missions.
Join us and make a meaningful impact.
Markon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status. This job posting will remain open until the position is filled.
Benefits Offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Training and Tuition Assistance, Paid Time Off, and Holidays.
Markon is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to support the Fort Meade customer by engineering, deploying, and sustaining secure mission-critical systems across Linux, cloud, and containerized environments. This role applies DevSecOps practices, Kubernetes orchestration, infrastructure automation, and systems administration expertise to streamline deployments, improve system reliability, and maintain highly available operational capabilities. The DevOps Engineer will provide hands-on technical support throughout the system lifecycle, including integration, deployment, troubleshooting, maintenance, and operational sustainment.
Responsibilities:
- Engineer, deploy, configure, and sustain mission-critical systems across Linux, cloud, and containerized environments.
- Administer Linux-based infrastructure and troubleshoot complex operating system, application, network, and infrastructure issues.
- Deploy, configure, and maintain containerized applications and services using Kubernetes and related technologies.
- Administer and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters and cluster orchestration environments supporting production workloads.
- Implement DevSecOps practices to automate software builds, testing, deployment, configuration, and infrastructure management.
- Develop and maintain automated deployment and configuration processes to improve system consistency, security, and reliability.
- Support software releases and system deployments across development, test, staging, and operational environments.
- Integrate cloud, compute, network, storage, and container technologies within secure mission environments.
- Support CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows for mission applications and infrastructure.
- Monitor system health, availability, capacity, and performance and proactively identify operational risks.
- Troubleshoot critical system discrepancies and coordinate resolution across development, infrastructure, network, and operations teams.
- Support system integration, testing, installation, upgrades, patching, maintenance, and operational sustainment.
- Develop and maintain system configurations, deployment procedures, troubleshooting guides, and technical documentation.
- Provide 24/7 on-call support as required to resolve critical operational system issues.
- Travel as required to support information system installation, integration, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
Required Qualifications
- Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph with this Customer.
- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or Computer Science and 12+ years of relevant experience. An additional 4 years of relevant experience may be substituted in lieu of a Bachelor's degree. A Master of Science degree in Engineering or Computer Science may substitute for 2 years of required experience.
- Experience with DevSecOps, software and system deployments, Linux system administration, containerization, and cloud environments.
- Recent experience within the last 3 years working with Kubernetes.
- Recent experience within the last 3 years supporting cluster orchestration environments.
- Recent experience within the last 3 years deploying and sustaining containerized applications and infrastructure.
- Experience supporting automated software deployment, configuration management, and CI/CD processes.
- Experience troubleshooting complex Linux, container, cloud, network, and application integration issues.
- Active IAT Level II CWIP / DoD 8570-compliant certification, such as Security+.
- Active CCNA certification.
- Ability to provide 24/7 on-call support for critical operational system discrepancies.
- Ability and willingness to travel for system installation, maintenance, integration, and troubleshooting.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience supporting Intelligence Community or Department of Defense mission systems.
- Experience with Ansible, Terraform, or comparable infrastructure automation technologies.
- Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with Docker or comparable container technologies.
- Experience administering highly available, production-scale Kubernetes environments.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automated configuration management.
- Experience with system monitoring, centralized logging, and observability technologies.
- Experience integrating cloud, network, compute, storage, and container infrastructure in secure enterprise environments.
The Markon pay range for this position is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law. Overview:
Eager to join a team where your skills are valued, your growth is nurtured, and your impact is profound? Look no further than Markon, a premier consulting firm deeply dedicated to advancing our nation's most critical missions.
At Markon, we don't just offer jobs – we offer opportunities for personal and professional transformation. Empowering our employees to lead, innovate, and excel, we foster an environment where new ideas are not just welcomed but celebrated. As a perennial Washington Post Top Workplace, we prioritize the well-being and success of our team members, ensuring they can bring their best selves to work.
Headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, Markon has garnered national recognition for our unwavering dedication to excellence in serving the intelligence community, as well as federal civilian and defense agencies. Our growing reach extends across 17 states, 116 countries, and 5 continents, where our team of dynamic professionals collaborates to deliver unparalleled program and project management services.
Markon values people and the tremendous impact each individual can make – which is why we’re consistently recognized as one of the best places to work in federal government consulting. Here, you can help solve the nation’s most important challenges, surrounded by colleagues who help you grow, advance, and succeed. We are deeply dedicated to what matters – bringing out the best in each other to advance our clients’ missions.
Join us and make a meaningful impact.
Markon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status. This job posting will remain open until the position is filled.
Benefits Offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Training and Tuition Assistance, Paid Time Off, and Holidays.
Markon
DevOps Engineer 3
Fort Meade, Maryland
New 22h ago51-200 employees
Job functions:
$260k - $270k/yr
Bachelor of Science
Job Description
Description:
The Markon pay range for this position is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law. Overview:
At Markon, we don't just offer jobs – we offer opportunities for personal and professional transformation. Empowering our employees to lead, innovate, and excel, we foster an environment where new ideas are not just welcomed but celebrated. As a perennial Washington Post Top Workplace, we prioritize the well-being and success of our team members, ensuring they can bring their best selves to work.
Headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, Markon has garnered national recognition for our unwavering dedication to excellence in serving the intelligence community, as well as federal civilian and defense agencies. Our growing reach extends across 17 states, 116 countries, and 5 continents, where our team of dynamic professionals collaborates to deliver unparalleled program and project management services.
Markon values people and the tremendous impact each individual can make – which is why we’re consistently recognized as one of the best places to work in federal government consulting. Here, you can help solve the nation’s most important challenges, surrounded by colleagues who help you grow, advance, and succeed. We are deeply dedicated to what matters – bringing out the best in each other to advance our clients’ missions.
Join us and make a meaningful impact.
Markon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status. This job posting will remain open until the position is filled.
Benefits Offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Training and Tuition Assistance, Paid Time Off, and Holidays.
Markon is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to support the Fort Meade customer by engineering, deploying, and sustaining secure mission-critical systems across Linux, cloud, and containerized environments. This role applies DevSecOps practices, Kubernetes orchestration, infrastructure automation, and systems administration expertise to streamline deployments, improve system reliability, and maintain highly available operational capabilities. The DevOps Engineer will provide hands-on technical support throughout the system lifecycle, including integration, deployment, troubleshooting, maintenance, and operational sustainment.
Responsibilities:
- Engineer, deploy, configure, and sustain mission-critical systems across Linux, cloud, and containerized environments.
- Administer Linux-based infrastructure and troubleshoot complex operating system, application, network, and infrastructure issues.
- Deploy, configure, and maintain containerized applications and services using Kubernetes and related technologies.
- Administer and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters and cluster orchestration environments supporting production workloads.
- Implement DevSecOps practices to automate software builds, testing, deployment, configuration, and infrastructure management.
- Develop and maintain automated deployment and configuration processes to improve system consistency, security, and reliability.
- Support software releases and system deployments across development, test, staging, and operational environments.
- Integrate cloud, compute, network, storage, and container technologies within secure mission environments.
- Support CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows for mission applications and infrastructure.
- Monitor system health, availability, capacity, and performance and proactively identify operational risks.
- Troubleshoot critical system discrepancies and coordinate resolution across development, infrastructure, network, and operations teams.
- Support system integration, testing, installation, upgrades, patching, maintenance, and operational sustainment.
- Develop and maintain system configurations, deployment procedures, troubleshooting guides, and technical documentation.
- Provide 24/7 on-call support as required to resolve critical operational system issues.
- Travel as required to support information system installation, integration, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
Required Qualifications
- Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph with this Customer.
- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or Computer Science and 12+ years of relevant experience. An additional 4 years of relevant experience may be substituted in lieu of a Bachelor's degree. A Master of Science degree in Engineering or Computer Science may substitute for 2 years of required experience.
- Experience with DevSecOps, software and system deployments, Linux system administration, containerization, and cloud environments.
- Recent experience within the last 3 years working with Kubernetes.
- Recent experience within the last 3 years supporting cluster orchestration environments.
- Recent experience within the last 3 years deploying and sustaining containerized applications and infrastructure.
- Experience supporting automated software deployment, configuration management, and CI/CD processes.
- Experience troubleshooting complex Linux, container, cloud, network, and application integration issues.
- Active IAT Level II CWIP / DoD 8570-compliant certification, such as Security+.
- Active CCNA certification.
- Ability to provide 24/7 on-call support for critical operational system discrepancies.
- Ability and willingness to travel for system installation, maintenance, integration, and troubleshooting.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience supporting Intelligence Community or Department of Defense mission systems.
- Experience with Ansible, Terraform, or comparable infrastructure automation technologies.
- Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with Docker or comparable container technologies.
- Experience administering highly available, production-scale Kubernetes environments.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automated configuration management.
- Experience with system monitoring, centralized logging, and observability technologies.
- Experience integrating cloud, network, compute, storage, and container infrastructure in secure enterprise environments.
The Markon pay range for this position is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law. Overview:
Eager to join a team where your skills are valued, your growth is nurtured, and your impact is profound? Look no further than Markon, a premier consulting firm deeply dedicated to advancing our nation's most critical missions.
At Markon, we don't just offer jobs – we offer opportunities for personal and professional transformation. Empowering our employees to lead, innovate, and excel, we foster an environment where new ideas are not just welcomed but celebrated. As a perennial Washington Post Top Workplace, we prioritize the well-being and success of our team members, ensuring they can bring their best selves to work.
Headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, Markon has garnered national recognition for our unwavering dedication to excellence in serving the intelligence community, as well as federal civilian and defense agencies. Our growing reach extends across 17 states, 116 countries, and 5 continents, where our team of dynamic professionals collaborates to deliver unparalleled program and project management services.
Markon values people and the tremendous impact each individual can make – which is why we’re consistently recognized as one of the best places to work in federal government consulting. Here, you can help solve the nation’s most important challenges, surrounded by colleagues who help you grow, advance, and succeed. We are deeply dedicated to what matters – bringing out the best in each other to advance our clients’ missions.
Join us and make a meaningful impact.
Markon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status. This job posting will remain open until the position is filled.
Benefits Offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Training and Tuition Assistance, Paid Time Off, and Holidays.
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Where Maryland roles are concentrated, by current openings.
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1 jobDevOps Job Market in Maryland
A snapshot from current Maryland openings, updated as new roles post.
Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Aerospace & Defense
- Investment & Asset Management
What Maryland Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in DevOps jobs across Maryland.
- Active DoD security clearance or eligibility, required by most Maryland federal contractors
- Proficiency with Kubernetes, Docker, and containerized deployment in cloud environments
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions
- Hands-on knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS GovCloud, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell for infrastructure tasks
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools including Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation
DevOps Jobs in Maryland: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a devops in Maryland?
DevOps does not require a state-issued license in Maryland, but most roles demand a relevant technical degree or equivalent experience alongside demonstrable hands-on skills. Employers in Maryland's federal contracting corridor routinely require a security clearance, so initiating that process early is a practical priority. Certifications like AWS Solutions Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, or HashiCorp Terraform Associate carry significant weight with Maryland hiring managers across both private and government sectors.
How much do DevOpses make in Maryland?
DevOpses in Maryland earn a median of about $138,680 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $87,690 for the lowest 10% to over $222,610 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire devopss in Maryland?
Employers hiring devopss in Maryland right now include Leidos, Power3 Solutions, and Shield Consulting Solutions, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Maryland's dense federal contracting ecosystem means many of the most active devops employers are large defense and intelligence-sector firms with permanent engineering footprints in the state.
Which Maryland cities have the most devops jobs?
Annapolis Junction, Bethesda, and Columbia have the most devops openings in Maryland. Baltimore anchors the commercial and healthcare technology market, while Columbia and Bethesda drive volume through their concentration of federal contractors and intelligence-community partners, making the D.C. corridor consistently the highest-demand zone for devops roles in the state.
Are there remote devops jobs in Maryland?
Yes, and more than most fields. About 66% of devops openings tied to Maryland are remote or hybrid as of August 2026, reflecting how naturally the work translates to distributed environments. Roles focused on pipeline automation, cloud infrastructure management, and monitoring tooling are the most likely to be fully remote, while positions requiring classified systems access typically remain on-site.
How can I get hired as a devops in Maryland with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry point is a junior or associate cloud engineer role, which many Maryland employers treat as a feeder position into devops. Large federal contractors like Leidos and SAIC run new-graduate and associate programs that hire candidates with foundational Linux, networking, and scripting skills. Building a public portfolio of Terraform configurations or CI/CD pipeline projects and earning one recognized cloud certification before applying meaningfully strengthens a candidate's position with Maryland hiring teams.
Where can I find and apply to devops jobs in Maryland?
You can find and apply to devops jobs in Maryland on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings across the state. Search the available roles, identify the ones that match your experience and location preferences, and apply directly to the ones that fit.
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