- Momentum Engineering, Inc.
- Annapolis Junction, MD
- Full-Time
- 58 days ago
- $184,000–$196,000
ME00661 - DevOps Engineer (ME00661).
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ME00661 - DevOps Engineer (ME00661): our view in 3 lines...
- The Role:This role is for an experienced DevOps Engineer focused on AWS-based infrastructure, container platforms, and CI/CD automation for a modernized operational system.
- The Person:The person will architect AWS infrastructure, automate provisioning and deployment, manage CI/CD pipelines, tune Kubernetes and Docker environments, analyse systems issues, and coordinate sprint tasks and technical direction.
- Requirements:The ideal candidate has active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph, a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, 12 years or more of professional experience, and experience with AWS technologies, Python, Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, Docker, GitLab runners, and Argo CD.
About the role
Job Summary
- Provide a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates the microservices of a modernized operational system utilizing cutting edge technologies.
Primary 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.
Required Qualifications
- Must have active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph
- Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education
- 12 years or more of professional experience; or 10 years of professional experience with a related Masters degree.
Desired Qualifications (must meet 2)
- 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
Exempt hourly position. 11 paid holidays, minimum of 3 weeks PTO, company sponsored group medical plan, company paid dental, vision, life insurance, and STD/LTD plans. Salary is dependent upon the candidate’s experience and qualifications.