Devops Engineer Level 3

CTRL + LLC•Annapolis Junction, MD

3d•$117 - $121•Onsite

About The Position

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 architecting infrastructure leveraging AWS technologies and services, developing Infrastructure As Code (IaC) and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools. They will also be responsible for performing high-level functional systems analysis, design, integration, documentation, cost analysis, implementation, and complex issue resolutions. Additionally, the role involves cloud infrastructure cost savings through iterative evaluation and recommendation of cost-saving measures, managing team tasking and sprint workloads, tracking ticket execution, and driving the technical direction of the infrastructure. The position requires managing CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing, and deploying code and effective communication and collaboration with team members and stakeholders.

Requirements

Security Clearance with Polygraph is required
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.
An active Top Secret clearance with polygraph (CI must be within the last 7 years).
Current CWIP (DoD 8140) certificate.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Extensive experience architecting infrastructure leveraging AWS technologies and services
Developing Infrastructure As Code (IaC) 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.
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.