DevOps Engineer/Systems Engineer (Mission Systems)

Node.Digital•McLean, VA

18h•Onsite

About The Position

Join a specialized engineering team dedicated to designing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise-grade mission systems, networks, and applications. You will play a critical role in driving DevOps excellence, ensuring high availability, and automating complex cloud infrastructures.

Requirements

Active TS/SCI FS Poly clearance.
Proven experience building and managing robust pipelines with Jenkins.
Strong proficiency in Terraform for provisioning scalable AWS environments.
Deep hands-on experience with core AWS services, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, and CloudWatch.
Advanced proficiency in Bash and Python for automation and systems integration.
Experience managing containerized workloads using Docker or Podman.
Experience self-hosting, tuning, and securing PostgreSQL and MySQL, including high-availability and recovery strategies.
Hands-on experience with monitoring and alerting stacks, specifically Prometheus/Alertmanager and CloudWatch.
Proven ability to deploy and integrate diverse ecosystems, including COTS/GOTS, open-source tools, and custom applications.
Strong grasp of networking fundamentals, IAM policy hardening, and AWS Well-Architected best practices.
Expert knowledge of Git-based workflows, branching strategies, and repository management.

Nice To Haves

Experience managing Lakehouse architectures and data platform components (e.g., Apache Spark, Trino, Apache Ranger, Apache Iceberg, Apache Superset, data catalogs).
Familiarity with AWS Secrets Manager/Parameter Store and modern API gateway patterns.
Knowledge of enterprise Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Planning (BCP).
Background in supporting AI/ML model-serving infrastructure or NoSQL environments (DynamoDB, MongoDB).
Experience with AWS cost optimization and right-sizing strategies.
Familiarity with the ELK Stack and Grafana for advanced visualization.
Experience mentoring junior team members and championing DevOps/Cloud-native best practices.

Responsibilities

Designing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise-grade mission systems, networks, and applications.
Driving DevOps excellence.
Ensuring high availability.
Automating complex cloud infrastructures.
Building and managing robust CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins.
Provisioning scalable AWS environments using Terraform.
Managing containerized workloads using Docker or Podman.
Self-hosting, tuning, and securing PostgreSQL and MySQL, including high-availability and recovery strategies.
Deploying and integrating diverse ecosystems, including COTS/GOTS, open-source tools, and custom applications.
Hardening IAM policies.
Managing Git-based workflows, branching strategies, and repository management.
Managing Lakehouse architectures and data platform components (e.g., Apache Spark, Trino, Apache Ranger, Apache Iceberg, Apache Superset, data catalogs).
Supporting AI/ML model-serving infrastructure or NoSQL environments (DynamoDB, MongoDB).
Mentoring junior team members and championing DevOps/Cloud-native best practices.