Booz Allen - Mid-Level DevOps Engineer

Codetech • McLean, VA

3d

About The Position

Booz Allen is seeking a Mid-Level DevOps Engineer to establish and maintain cloud environments using vendor consoles and programmatic methods. The role uses a complete DevOps pipeline to accelerate delivery of functionality to clients. The engineer will work with multiple functional groups to understand client challenges, prototype ideas and technologies, and develop innovative solutions.

The engineer will design, implement, schedule, test, and deploy solution features and components, ensuring software quality through testing and reviews. They will develop tools and processes to advance DevSecOps maturity by automating builds, regression testing, monitoring, and releases across environments. The work focuses primarily on enterprise cloud-native solutions involving Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, and Azure.

The position requires specialized knowledge of cloud technologies and services, familiarity with cloud CLIs and SDKs, and the ability to develop solutions to complex technical problems with considerable latitude. The engineer may guide major programs, serve in a project leadership capacity, and act as the prime technical contact on contracts and projects, coordinating with senior external personnel and other organizations. They will work with limited direction and may mentor or supervise team members.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of directly related experience, or a Master's degree and 3+ years of directly related experience; equivalent experience or relevant certifications may be accepted in lieu of a degree for certain roles.
• 4+ years of experience with DevOps for containerized and Kubernetes production systems.
• 3+ years of experience with AWS, including services such as EC2, S3, SQS, SNS, RDS, DynamoDB, KMS, SSM, ELB, VPC, or Route53.
• 3+ years of experience with CI/CD and developer workflow automation, such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or AWS CodeStar, and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, AWS CDK, or AWS CloudFormation.
• 3+ years of experience with Kubernetes deployment and GitOps tooling, such as Helm, Flux, or Argo CD.
• Experience with cloud and network security architecture, including least privilege and IAM, secrets management, RBAC, and boundary protection.
• Experience with vulnerability management and dynamic and static code analysis.
• 4+ years of experience with one or more of C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Go, Shell, or PowerShell.
• Knowledge of alerting and monitoring tools, and system management tools for environments and configuration management.
• Knowledge of cloud orchestration tools, including Ansible, Chef, Puppet, CloudFormation, Terraform, and Salt.
• Knowledge of containers, including LXC and Docker.
• Experience with Amazon AWS services and APIs, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain cloud environments using vendor consoles and programmatic methods.
• Work with functional groups to understand client challenges, prototype ideas and technologies, and develop solutions.
• Design, implement, schedule, test, and deploy features and components of solutions.
• Ensure software quality through thorough testing and reviews.
• Develop tools and processes that advance DevSecOps maturity by automating builds, regression testing, monitoring, and releases across environments.
• Develop enterprise cloud-native solutions involving Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, and Azure.
• Guide the successful completion of major programs and potentially perform project leadership duties.
• Represent the organization as the prime technical contact on contracts and projects, coordinating on significant technical matters.
• Mentor and potentially supervise team members.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level