DevOps Engineer, Senior

Booz Allen Hamilton • McLean, VA

16h

About The Position

DevOps Engineer, Senior The Opportunity: Everyone is trying to “harness the cloud,” but not everyone knows how. As a DevOps engineer, you’re eager to develop, manage, and secure a container platform that meets your client’s needs and takes advantage of cloud capabilities. We need you to develop container management software to solve some of our clients’ toughest challenges. As a senior platform DevOps engineer at Booz Allen, you can use your technical skills to affect mission-forward change. On our team, you’ll hone your skills using the latest cloud technologies as you look for ways to improve your client’s environment with current container software to ensure seamless orchestration. Using your DevOps platform experience, you’ll support your team as you inform strategy and design while ensuring standards are met throughout the containerization process. We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to support the deployment, monitoring, and reliability of the client's infrastructure . You'll work with developers and data engineers to automate workflows and ensure high system availability, security, and performance. You’ll recommend resources that will help your client manage and securely adopt containers. Additionally, you’ll continue to strengthen your DevOps skills while supporting the development of critical cloud platforms. Due to the nature of work performed within this facility, U.S. citizenship is required. Work with us to use cloud platform technology for good. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, site reliability engineering, or systems engineering
• 3+ years of experience with AWS services, such as EC2, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, or IAM
• 3+ years of experience scripting in Bash, Python, Groovy, or Jenkins
• 3+ years of experience with CI/CD tools, such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins
• 3+ years of experience with containerization, such as Docker
• 2+ years of experience designing and architecting cloud infrastructure with best security practices
• 3+ years of experience working with infrastructure-as-code, such as Terraform, Terragrunt, Packer, or Ansible
• 2+ years of experience with monitoring and alerting tools, such as Datadog, Prometheus, CloudWatch, or OpenTelemetry
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements
• HS diploma or GED
• U.S. citizenship is required

Nice To Haves

• 2+ years of experience collaborating with development and QA teams to streamline deployments and environment configurations
• 2+ years of experience automating operational tasks, including environment provisioning, backups, and log management
• 2+ years of experience ensuring compliance with federal security standards, such as FISMA or FedRAMP
• 3+ years of experience troubleshooting production issues and participating in incident response
• Ability to contribute to documentation and internal runbooks for DevOps processes
• Possession of excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Develop, manage, and secure a container platform that meets your client’s needs and takes advantage of cloud capabilities.
• Develop container management software to solve some of our clients’ toughest challenges.
• Improve your client’s environment with current container software to ensure seamless orchestration.
• Inform strategy and design while ensuring standards are met throughout the containerization process.
• Support the deployment, monitoring, and reliability of the client's infrastructure.
• Automate workflows and ensure high system availability, security, and performance.
• Recommend resources that will help your client manage and securely adopt containers.
• Support the development of critical cloud platforms.

Benefits

• health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits
• paid leave
• professional development
• tuition assistance
• work-life programs
• dependent care
• recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED