Sr. DevOps Engineer (Up to $25k Sign-on) (6842)

MetroStar•Reston, VA

About The Position

As a Sr. DevOps Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in designing, operating, and improving shared cloud and DevOps platform services used by multiple customer mission teams. This role supports Linux-based environments, AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, and load balancing, containerized services using Docker or Podman, and CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins or GitLab. This role provides reliable, secure, and reusable platform capabilities while customer teams retain ownership of their application-specific pipelines, releases, and delivery processes. At MetroStar, we are obsessed with our people and have led a two-decade legacy of building the best and brightest teams. Because we know our future relies on our deep understanding and relentless focus on our people, we live by our mission: A passion for our people. Value for our customers.

Requirements

Active TS/SCI with CI Poly (or ability to obtain CI Poly).
5-10+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, platform operations, cloud infrastructure, or infrastructure engineering.
Experience administering and troubleshooting Linux-based systems in production or mission environments.
Experience supporting AWS infrastructure (e.g., EC2, S3, RDS, Security Groups, and Load Balancing).
Experience building, running, troubleshooting, or supporting containerized workloads with Docker and/or Podman.
Experience with building CI/CD pipelines from scratch with Gitlab and/or Jenkins.
Experience with Git-based source-control workflows.
Ability to automate infrastructure and processes using Bash and/or Python.
Ability to work independently and communicate with stakeholders across a global enterprise and cross-functional teams to drive project completion.

Responsibilities

Engineer, administer, automate, and sustain shared platform services that support multiple customer teams.
Build, maintain, and troubleshoot shared Linux-based cloud and DevOps services used by multiple customer mission teams.
Provision, configure, troubleshoot, and optimize AWS infrastructure and services, including EC2, S3, RDS, and Elastic Load Balancing capabilities.
Support the operation of containerized services and workloads.
Configure, administer, integrate, and troubleshoot CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins and/or GitLab.
Develop and maintain automation scripts, configuration patterns, deployment procedures, and reusable technical solutions to improve platform reliability and repeatability.
Integrate shared platform tooling with source control, artifact repositories, authentication/authorization services, security tooling, monitoring, logging, and ticketing systems as applicable.