Infrastructure Engineer

Avalore, LLC • Herndon, VA

2d

About The Position

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will architect and maintain scalable, resilient systems supporting high-volume data alerting in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. You will use Kubernetes to orchestrate containerized workloads and support seamless application deployment and management. The role involves optimizing AWS cloud infrastructure, including EKS, EC2, and S3, and automating infrastructure provisioning and configuration with Terraform. You will also design routing and DNS solutions to support high availability and performance across distributed systems.

You will work with messaging platforms such as RabbitMQ and Kafka to handle large-scale data streams and provide reliable communication between services. Familiarity with Grafana and logging and alerting frameworks supports monitoring, observability, and proactive incident response. You will collaborate with development teams on DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and operational efficiency, while troubleshooting complex issues and applying cloud security and automation best practices. An active security clearance with the appropriate polygraph is required. Occasional travel of up to 10% may be required.

Requirements

• Active security clearance with appropriate polygraph.
• Experience with Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Kafka, DevOps, EKS, AWS, EC2, S3, Terraform, routing, DNS, Grafana, logging, and alerting.

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain scalable, resilient systems for high-volume data alerting.
• Orchestrate containerized workloads with Kubernetes and support application deployment and management.
• Optimize AWS cloud infrastructure using services including EKS, EC2, and S3.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform.
• Design routing and DNS solutions for availability and performance across distributed systems.
• Use messaging platforms such as RabbitMQ and Kafka to support large-scale data streams and reliable service communication.
• Use monitoring, observability, logging, and alerting frameworks to support proactive incident response.
• Collaborate with development teams to streamline CI/CD pipelines and improve operational efficiency.
• Troubleshoot complex issues and implement cloud security and automation best practices.

Benefits

• Employer contributions to health care plan (medical, dental, and vision).
• Retirement plan (401k or IRA) with matching program.
• Basic, voluntary, and AD&D life insurance.
• Paid time off including vacation, sick leave, and public holidays.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Training and development.
• Employee assistance program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed