DevOps Engineer - Level 4/5
About The Position
Wyetech is seeking a DevOps Engineer Level 5 – Team Lead to provide technical leadership and direction for a team delivering a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates microservices for a modernized operational system. The role combines hands-on DevOps engineering with team leadership, including AWS infrastructure architecture, infrastructure automation, sprint planning, workload management, and technical oversight. The position involves designing and maintaining cloud infrastructure, automating infrastructure and deployments, working with containerization and orchestration technologies, analyzing and resolving complex system issues, and evaluating AWS costs. The team lead also decomposes sprint priorities into tickets, manages team tasking and workloads, tracks execution, and provides technical direction aligned with program and product needs. The role requires effective communication and collaboration with teammates and stakeholders. The position allows little to no work from home, and a significant portion or all work may be performed in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF). Candidates must hold an active TS clearance with a customer-appropriate polygraph. 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 12 years of professional experience, or 10 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 a position-appropriate security clearance, as required by federal contract requirements.
Nice To Haves
- At least two of the following: design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure using services such as EC2, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, Event Router, Athena, and Step Functions with Terraform and auto scaling.
- Understanding of AWS networking principles, including VPCs, NATs, and IP Gateway.
- Experience developing and managing GitLab CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment processes.
- Experience collaborating with development teams to optimize application performance and reliability.
- Experience troubleshooting infrastructure issues and ensuring system uptime.
- Kubernetes experience focused on EKS, ECS, and/or Fargate.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and direction for a team delivering a reliable, highly available platform for orchestrating microservices.
- Architect infrastructure using AWS technologies and services.
- Develop Infrastructure as Code and scripts to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools.
- Install, configure, and tune containerization technologies such as Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, Docker, and Docker Compose.
- Perform high-level functional systems analysis, design, integration, documentation, cost analysis, implementation, and complex issue resolution.
- Evaluate cloud infrastructure costs, recommend savings measures, reduce maintenance, and lower AWS service costs.
- Decompose sprint priorities and generate tickets aligned with internal team priorities.
- Manage team tasking and sprint workloads to keep work coordinated and on track.
- Track ticket execution and guide infrastructure technical direction to align with program and product needs.
- Manage CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing, and deploying code using GitLab runners and Argo CD.
- Communicate and collaborate effectively with team members and stakeholders.
- Support an on-call rotation.
Benefits
- Wyetech contributes the equivalent of 20% of salary to a SEP IRA.
- PTO plan of up to 200 hours annually, aligned with applicable state leave regulations, with flexibility to adjust PTO allocation at the start of each calendar year.
- Voluntary medical plan options, some with a Health Savings Account (HSA), for full-time employees.
- 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
