DevOps Engineer (6842) (Up to $25k Sign-on)

MetroStar•Reston, VA

About The Position

MetroStar is hiring a DevOps Engineer to design, operate, and improve shared cloud and DevOps platform services used by multiple customer mission teams. The role engineers, administers, automates, and sustains Linux-based platform services and AWS infrastructure, supports containerized services and workloads, and maintains CI/CD tooling. It also develops reusable automation, configuration patterns, and deployment procedures to improve reliability and repeatability, and integrates platform tooling with related systems such as source control, artifact repositories, authentication and authorization, security, monitoring, logging, and ticketing. The role has Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 openings, with placement based on experience: 4–7 years, 8–9 years, and 10 or more years, respectively. The stated salary range is $170,000–$260,000. The position may also be eligible for additional compensation, including performance-based bonuses, training or certification support, referral bonuses, and other incentives under company policies. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

Requirements

Active TS/SCI clearance with CI Poly, or ability to obtain CI Poly.
4–10+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, platform operations, cloud infrastructure, site reliability, automation, or infrastructure engineering.
Experience administering and troubleshooting Linux systems in production or mission environments.
Experience supporting AWS infrastructure, such as EC2, S3, RDS, Security Groups, and/or load balancing.
Experience building, running, troubleshooting, and/or supporting containerized workloads, such as Docker and/or Podman.
Experience building CI/CD pipelines from scratch, such as with GitLab and/or Jenkins.
Experience with Git-based source-control workflows.
Ability to automate infrastructure and processes using Python and/or Bash.

Responsibilities

Engineer, administer, automate, and sustain shared platform services supporting multiple customer teams.
Build, maintain, and troubleshoot shared Linux-based cloud and DevOps services.
Provision, configure, troubleshoot, and optimize AWS infrastructure and services, including EC2, S3, RDS, and Elastic Load Balancing.
Support the operation of containerized services and workloads.
Configure, administer, integrate, and troubleshoot CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and/or GitLab.
Develop and maintain automation scripts, configuration patterns, deployment procedures, and reusable technical solutions to improve platform reliability and repeatability.
Integrate shared platform tooling with source control, artifact repositories, authentication and authorization services, security tooling, monitoring, logging, and ticketing systems as applicable.