DevOps Engineer 5 [D.26.0158]

Requires Top Secret/SCI with Full Scope Poly

Salary Range: $248k-$272k per year with an additional $62k-$68k in immediately vested company 401(k) contributions

Responsibilities: Provide a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates the microservices of a modernized operational system utilizing cutting edge technologies.

The DevOps Engineer Will Be Responsible For

• Extensive experience architecting infrastructure leveraging AWS technologies and services
• Developing Infrastructure As Code (laC) and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools.
• Popular programming languages for DevOps engineers include Python, Ansible, and Terraform.
• Strong background in containerization technologies: install, configure, and provide performance tuning utilizing Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, Docker, Docker Compose, etc.

Duties

• Perform high-level functional systems analysis, design, integration, documentation, cost analysis, implementation, and complex issue resolutions.
• Cloud infrastructure cost savings: iteratively evaluate costs, recommend cost savings measures, reduce maintenance, and reduce AWS services costs.
• Sprint priority decomposition and ticket generation to align with internal team priorities.
• Manage team tasking and sprint workloads, keeping the team on task and executing in an orchestrated manner.
• Tracking ticket execution while driving technical direction of the infrastructure to align with the program and product needs.
• Managing CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing, and deploying code utilizing GitLab runners and Argo CD.
• Communication and collaboration: Able to communicate and collaborate effectively with other team members, as well as with stakeholders.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education 12 years or more of professional experience; or 10 years of professional experience with a related Masters degree.
• Current CWIP (DoD 8140) certificate.

Desired Skills (2 Of The Below)

• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure including but not limited to EC2, Lambdas, S3, SNS, SQS, Event Router, Athena
• Step Functions using Terraform and auto scaling.
• Understanding of AWS networking principles to include VPCs, NATs, IP Gateway.
• Develop and manage Gitlab CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment processes
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance and reliability.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and ensure system uptime
• Kubernetes experience with a focus on EKS, ECS, and/or Fargate