Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer

ECS is seeking a Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer to work in our Arlington, VA (hybrid) office. We are looking for a talented engineer who is passionate about building, automating, and operating modern cloud environments.

About the role

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on designing, building, automating, and operating cloud platforms and delivery pipelines. The ideal candidate will be comfortable writing code and automation, troubleshooting complex infrastructure problems, implementing cloud-native solutions, and partnering directly with software, security, and infrastructure teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, operate, and improve scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code using technologies such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, or equivalent tools.
• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines supporting application, infrastructure, and configuration deployments.
• Develop automation, tooling, scripts, and integrations using languages such as Python, Go, PowerShell, or Bash.
• Deploy and operate containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native container platforms.
• Design and implement cloud architectures using services across AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform.
• Automate provisioning, configuration management, deployment, monitoring, scaling, and operational workflows.
• Support the development and operation of microservices, APIs, distributed applications, and cloud-native platforms.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, observability, and performance-management capabilities across applications and infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot complex issues involving Linux systems, networking, containers, cloud services, application deployments, and automation pipelines.
• Improve system reliability, availability, resiliency, performance, and operational efficiency through automation and engineering.
• Implement and maintain secure configuration, identity and access controls, secrets management, certificates, and cloud security best practices.
• Partner with software engineers to improve development workflows, deployment processes, and application operability.
• Partner with security engineers to integrate security controls into cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and development workflows.
• Identify repetitive operational processes and replace them with scalable automation.
• Evaluate new cloud, DevOps, platform engineering, and automation technologies and determine where they can improve the environment.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship while remaining actively involved in implementation and troubleshooting.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, information technology, or another technical discipline, or an associate degree with equivalent years of relevant technical experience.
• At least 8 years of overall technical experience, including significant hands-on experience in several of the following areas:
  • DevOps Engineering
  • Cloud Engineering
  • Platform Engineering
  • Unix/Linux Administration
  • Infrastructure Automation
  • CI/CD Engineering
  • Networking and Virtual Infrastructure
  • Containerization and Kubernetes
  • Application Deployment and Operations
  • Software Development or Scripting
• Strong scripting or development experience in at least one language such as Python, Go, PowerShell, Bash, Perl, or similar.
• Demonstrated experience designing, building, and operating production infrastructure using automation and infrastructure-as-code.
• Demonstrated ability to independently troubleshoot complex infrastructure, cloud, networking, application, and deployment issues.
• Ability to work directly with software, security, and infrastructure teams to translate technical requirements into reliable and maintainable engineering solutions.
• Must successfully complete a stringent Background Investigation and obtain the required Government Security Clearance.

Skills

• Strong understanding of Git and modern source-control workflows.
• Strong experience with Python, Golang, C#, Java, or another general-purpose programming language.
• Strong experience with Bash and/or PowerShell.
• Deep knowledge of Linux administration, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and core system services.
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP networking, DNS, HTTP/S, load balancing, firewalls, routing, proxies, and network troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, Pulumi, or equivalent infrastructure-as-code technologies.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and container orchestration platforms.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or equivalent tools.
• Experience with configuration-management technologies such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or equivalent tools.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability using platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Elastic, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience with cloud identity and access management, secrets management, encryption, certificates, and secure cloud configuration.
• Familiarity with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) concepts such as service-level objectives, availability, resiliency, capacity management, and incident response.
• Experience supporting highly available, fault-tolerant, and distributed systems.
• Experience integrating automated testing, security scanning, policy checks, and deployment controls into CI/CD workflows.
• Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases, messaging systems, caching platforms, and other common cloud application services.

Pay

Salary Range: $140,000-$200,000