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

Akina•Annapolis Junction, MD

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Provide a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates the microservices of a modernized operational system utilizing cutting edge technologies. The position allows little to no work from home and will require a significant portion or all work to be performed in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF). Able to support an on-call rotation.

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.
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.
Communication and collaboration: Able to communicate and collaborate effectively with other team members, as well as with stakeholders.
12 years or more of professional experience; or 10 years of professional experience with a related Masters degree.
Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education.

Nice To Haves

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.
Understanding of AWS networking principles to include VPCs, NATs, 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 with a focus on EKS, ECS, and/or Fargate.

Responsibilities

Architecting infrastructure leveraging AWS technologies and services.
Developing Infrastructure As Code (IaC) and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools.
Installing, configuring, and providing performance tuning utilizing Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, Docker, Docker Compose, etc.
Performing high-level functional systems analysis, design, integration, documentation, cost analysis, implementation, and complex issue resolutions.
Iteratively evaluating costs, recommending cost savings measures, reducing maintenance, and reducing AWS services costs.
Sprint priority decomposition and ticket generation to align with internal team priorities.
Managing 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.
Communicating and collaborating effectively with other team members, as well as with stakeholders.