DevOps Engineer

Vannevar•Washington, DC

4d•Remote

About The Position

Vannevar Labs is seeking a DevOps Engineer to own build and deployment automation. The role will shape the company’s systems and requires making and communicating trade-offs to keep systems simple, maintainable, and scalable across commercial and high-side environments. The engineer will support a platform used across Department of War missions and help ensure it can operate reliably at scale. The position focuses on platform health, scaling and planning; self-service tools and automation; monitoring and reliability practices; secure, highly available DevOps pipelines; a multi-account AWS environment; and automated build and deployment processes. The role requires U.S. citizenship and an active TS/SCI with FSP clearance, and travel or commuting to a Washington, DC customer site up to 50% of the time.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience in DevOps or software engineering.
Experience crafting CI/CD processes and automation.
Deep knowledge of AWS cloud technology.
Experience with the PLG stack, Datadog, or other enterprise monitoring tools.
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform and Pulumi.
Proficiency with containerization technologies such as Docker.
Proficiency in Python, Bash, or other scripting languages.
Experience working in an agile Scrum environment and ability to work independently.
Ability to quickly learn new and existing technologies.
Strong attention to detail and excellent analytical capabilities.
U.S. citizenship, because the position requires access to U.S.-only data systems and export-controlled data.
TS/SCI with FSP clearance.
Ability to commute or travel to a Washington, DC customer site up to 50% of the time.

Nice To Haves

Experience working in AWS GovCloud.
Experience in data processing with the Department of Defense and/or the intelligence community.
Experience building CI/CD systems in GitHub Actions.
Passion for DevSecOps.
Experience working with Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.
Experience hardening and delivering software applications.
Experience with modern web services architectures.
Experience with relational database systems, including SQL and relational design.
Knowledge of advanced networking concepts such as overlays, VPNs, and zero-trust networks.
Strong collaboration and negotiation skills, including the ability to work on multifunctional projects with internal partner engineering teams.

Responsibilities

Develop, maintain, and take responsibility for overall platform health, scaling, and planning.
Develop self-service tools and automation to improve data engineering efficiency.
Build logging and monitoring tools to visualize platform state and improve SRE practices.
Help implement a secure, robust, and highly available DevOps pipeline.
Work with the team to build out a multi-account AWS environment.
Automate build and deployment processes.