DevOps Engineer 4 or 5 - (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker)

Akina•Annapolis Junction, MD

18h•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, automating, and supporting infrastructure, containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud cost optimization. Provide a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates the microservices of a modernized operational system. Architect infrastructure leveraging AWS technologies and services. Develop Infrastructure as Code and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools. 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. 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. Track ticket execution while driving technical direction of the infrastructure to align with the program and product needs. Manage CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing, and deploying code utilizing GitLab runners and Argo CD.

Requirements

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.
Able to communicate and collaborate effectively with other team members, as well as with stakeholders.
Understanding of AWS networking principles to include VPCs, NATs, IP Gateway.
Kubernetes experience with a focus on EKS, ECS, and/or Fargate.

Responsibilities

Architect infrastructure leveraging AWS technologies and services.
Develop Infrastructure as Code and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools.
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.
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.
Track ticket execution while driving technical direction of the infrastructure to align with the program and product needs.
Manage CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing, and deploying code utilizing GitLab runners and Argo CD.
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.
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.