DevOps Engineer - Level 4
About The Position
Wyetech is seeking a DevOps Engineer to provide a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates microservices for a modernized operational system using current technologies. The role focuses on infrastructure automation, system maintenance, container orchestration, continuous delivery, and management of AWS cloud resources. It also involves communicating and collaborating with team members and stakeholders. The position 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). The engineer must support an on-call rotation. An active TS clearance with a customer-appropriate polygraph is required; U.S. citizenship and a position-appropriate security clearance are required due to federal contract requirements.
Requirements
- 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.
- Ability to support an on-call rotation.
- Active TS clearance with a customer-appropriate polygraph.
- U.S. citizenship and position-appropriate security clearance.
- Ability to work with little to no work from home and perform a significant portion or all work in a SCIF.
Nice To Haves
- At least two of the following desired qualifications: design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure, including EC2, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, Event Router, Athena, and Step Functions, using Terraform and auto scaling.
- Understanding of AWS networking principles, including VPCs, NATs, and IP Gateway.
- 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.
- Kubernetes experience focused on EKS, ECS, and/or Fargate.
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 to automate code building, testing, and deployment using GitLab runners and Argo CD.
- Manage AWS commercial cloud computing platforms.
- Communicate and collaborate effectively with team members and stakeholders.
- Support an on-call rotation.
Benefits
- SEP IRA contribution equivalent to 20% of salary.
- PTO plan of up to 200 hours annually, with flexibility to adjust PTO allocation at the start of each calendar year.
- Optional medical plan choices, some with a Health Savings Account (HSA).
- Vision and dental benefits.
- Life and AD&D benefits.
- Short- and long-term disability benefits.
- Hospital indemnity, accident, and critical illness insurance.
- Optional identity theft and legal protection services.
- Employee referral bonus eligibility up to $10,000.
- Mobility among Wyetech-supported contracts.
- Team-building events, including monthly lunches, a summer company picnic, and an annual holiday party.
- Two complimentary branded clothing orders annually.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
