DevOps Engineer 4-8966-OL

Onyx Point • Hanover, MD

13d • Onsite

About The Position

The DevOps Engineer will provide a reliable, highly available platform to orchestrate the microservices of a modernized operational system using current technologies. The role involves automating infrastructure and operational tasks, maintaining secure and compliant systems, configuring and tuning container and data-flow platforms, managing CI/CD pipelines, and administering AWS cloud services. The position is team-oriented and requires effective communication and collaboration with colleagues and stakeholders.

The role allows little to no work from home and requires a significant portion or all work to be performed in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF). Candidates must be U.S. citizens and have an active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph security clearance.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI security clearance with Full Scope Polygraph; U.S. citizenship is required.
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education.
• At least 9 years of professional experience, or 7 years of professional experience with a related master’s degree.
• Experience patching, hardening, and maintaining compliance of RHEL.
• Experience installing, configuring, and tuning Kubernetes, Docker Compose, NiFi, and cloud-native logging and metrics collection tools.
• Experience managing CI/CD pipelines using GitLab runners and Argo CD.
• Experience managing commercial cloud computing platforms such as AWS.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with team members and stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• Understanding of AWS networking principles, including VPCs, NATs, and IP Gateway.
• Experience with Kubernetes, particularly EKS, ECS, and/or Fargate.
• Experience designing and maintaining AWS infrastructure with Terraform, including services such as EC2, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, Event Router, Athena, and Step Functions, and using auto scaling.
• Experience developing and managing GitLab CI/CD pipelines to automate deployments.
• Experience collaborating with development teams to optimize application performance and reliability, troubleshooting infrastructure issues, and ensuring system uptime.

Responsibilities

• Develop infrastructure as code and scripts to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools.
• Patch, harden, and maintain compliance of RHEL systems.
• Install, configure, and performance-tune Kubernetes, Docker Compose, NiFi, and cloud-native logging and metrics collection tools.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines for automated building, testing, and deployment using GitLab runners and Argo CD.
• Manage AWS commercial cloud computing platforms.
• Communicate and collaborate with team members and stakeholders.
• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure, potentially including EC2, Lambdas, S3, SNS, SQS, Event Router, Athena, and Step Functions using Terraform and auto scaling.
• 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 help ensure system uptime.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Basic and voluntary Life/AD&D insurance.
• Short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Accident, critical illness, and hospitalization indemnity insurance.
• Pet insurance.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Generous paid time off and paid holidays.
• Parental leave.
• Wellness programs and mental health support.
• Professional development and tuition reimbursement.
• Flexible work arrangements, including remote work options.
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs).
• Employee referral programs.
• Bonus opportunities.
• Technology allowance.
• Diverse, inclusive, and supportive workplace culture.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior