Senior DevOps Engineer / Team Lead

GliaCell Technologies•Annapolis Junction, MD

10d•$200,000 - $280,000•Onsite

About The Position

GliaCell is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer / Team Lead to support a U.S. Government customer on one of their subcontracts. This full-time position offers the opportunity to provide technical expertise in sustaining critical mission-related software and systems for a large government contract. The role involves providing a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates microservices of a modernized operational system using cutting-edge technologies. GliaCell Technologies focuses on Software & System Engineering in Enterprise and Cyber Security solution spaces, excelling at delivering stable and reliable software solutions using Agile Software Development principles. Their Enterprise capabilities include Full-Stack Application Development, Big Data, Cloud Technologies, Analytics, Machine Learning, AI, and DevOps Containerization. They also provide customer solutions in CND, CNE, and CNO by offering assessments and solutions in Threat Mitigation, Vulnerability Exposure, Penetration Testing, Threat Hunting, and Preventing Advanced Persistent Threat.

Requirements

Possess an active or rein-statable TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance.
An active Top Secret clearance with polygraph (CI must be within the last 7 years).
U.S. Citizenship.
12 years & Bachelors of Science Degree, or 10 years & Masters Degree, or 14 years & Associates Degree, or 16 years & High School Diploma
Current Security+CE certificate.
Current CWIP (DoD 8140) certificate.
Works well independently as well as on a team.
Strong communication skills.

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

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. Popular programming languages for DevOps engineers include Python, Ansible, and Terraform.
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.