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Cloud Engineer / DevOps-------Need GC and USC-----------Need Locals

USM Open · verified Oct 24, 2026
On-site Denver Mid-level DevOps & Release

At a glance

Mid-level DevOps & Release role at USM. Denver · no salary stated · we estimate $120,000–$167,500 across the United States.

Estimated pay

USM has not published a salary for this role. The figure below is our estimate, not theirs.

$120,000 – $167,500
What the middle half of mid-level DevOps & release roles in the United States paid, among postings that did state a salary.
Worked out from 193 postings that stated pay, median $140,000. Last updated Oct 24, 2026.
RoleDevOps & Release
SeniorityMid-level
LocationDenver
WorkplaceOn-site
PostedSep 8, 2016 · 10y ago
Role brief

devopsroles summary, based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do

  • Help automate application releases for development and support teams, coordinating deployments across their cloud environments
  • Write reusable Puppet code to install and configure shared application components, then maintain the Puppet Enterprise setup
  • Train and guide developers and support staff as they adopt cloud workflows and build Puppet modules
  • Apply configuration updates, reverse changes that fail, and keep support documentation current for applications and platforms

What you bring

  • At least one year using Puppet for configuration management and automation
  • Three or more years administering Red Hat Linux or Windows Server systems
  • You can work with Git and understand software delivery practices, including CI/CD
  • You have scripting skills in Ruby, Bash or PowerShell, plus experience with automated releases and tests

Who this fits

This mid-level role suits a cloud and systems administrator who can help development and operations teams automate application delivery. It is onsite in Denver, runs for at least a year, and requires U.S. citizenship or a green card; applicants must be local.

From the employer

USM Business Systems Inc. is a quickly developing worldwide System Integrator, Software and Product Development, IT Outsourcing and Technology assistance supplier headquartered in Chantilly, VA with off-shore delivery centers in India. We offer world-class ability in giving most astounding quality and administrations through industry best practices planned to convey remarkable worth to our customers.

Utilizing our industry knowledge, administration service offering expertise and innovation abilities, we distinguish new business and innovation slants and create answers for help customers around the globe, giving top of the line solid and practical IT benefits which are cost effective services.

Established in 1999, the organization has corner qualities in building and dealing with a Business Oriented IT environment with rich involvement in technology innovation, ERP and CRM counselling, Product Engineering, Business Intelligence, Data Management, SOA, BPM, Data Warehousing, SharePoint Consulting and IT Infrastructure. Our other offerings include modified solutions and administrations in ERP, CRM, Enterprise architecture, offshore advisory services ,e-commerce, Social , Mobile, Cloud, Analytics (SMAC) and DevOps.

USM, a US ensured Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) is perceived as one of the fastest developing IT Systems Integrator in the Washington, DC zone. Most as of late, USM was positioned #9 on the rundown of the Top administrations organizations in the DC Metro Area – Washington Business Journal (2011). We are a project-driven firm that reliably meets the IT needs of our State and Government customers through development and business keenness.

Cloud Engineer / DevOps

Duration: 1 year+

Denver, CO

Need GC and USC

Need Locals

Top Three Skills:

1. Cloud Experience (AWS, VMware, Openstck)

2. Systems Administration-Linux

3. Automation Scripting-Puppet and Python (Bash can substitute for Python)

Responsibilities:

• Assisting in automation and orchestration of application deployments for multiple development and application support teams

• Develop reusable puppet code for installation and configuration of common application components

• Support and maintain the department’s Puppet Enterprise environment

• Provide training and on boarding of developers and application support teams into the cloud environment

• Mentor teams in the development and use of Puppet modules for application automation

• Implementation of configuration changes, as well as backing out an unsuccessful change.

• Document and maintain knowledge of supported applications and platforms

Required Qualifications:

• 1+ years of working experience with Puppet for configuration management and automation

• 3+ years of system administration experience with either RedHat Linux or Windows Server operating systems

• Proficiency with use of source code management and software development workflow using Git

• Have a thorough understanding of SDLC best practices including CI/CD

• Demonstrated leadership capability; able to help guide, motivate and collaborate across IT operations, development and architecture teams

• Scripting or programming proficiency (Ruby, bash, PowerShell, etc.)

• Experience working in an environment with automated deployments and automated testing

• Experience in advanced application configuration, troubleshooting and performance tuning

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience extending Puppet with Ruby (Custom types and providers, custom functions, etc)

• Familiarity with application architecture and deployments in cloud environments (Microservices, service discovery, A/B code deployments, etc)

• Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMWare, OpenStack, AWS

• Experience with Java containers (Weblogic, Tomcat, Jboss, etc)

• Experience with webservers (Apache, IIS, nginx, hapxory, etc)

• Experience with .NET application stack

• RedHat or Microsoft certification

• BS degree and/or the equivalent in training and experience preferred

• Experience with using and maintaining Atlassian suite of products (Stash, Jira, Hipchat, etc)

• Load balancing concepts, features and applicability to application/service deployments

• 5+ years of relevant work experience developing services, automation tools/scripts

• Knowledge of SQL and NOSQL databases

• Experience with software packaging (e.g. RPM, MSI, etc.) and software distribution

• Take ownership of assigned tasks and drive to completion; provide status and follow-up as needed

• Excellent personal and communication skills.

• Highly tuned problem solving and analytical skills

• Experience porting puppet code to future parser

If you are interested please share your resume to preethib@usmsystems(dot)com or can directly call me on 703 468 0398

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