Sr. DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities

Support AWS development, test, and production environments
Collaborate with project leads and team members
Align with Security and IT for policy assurance
Develop and support pipelines that include automation and configurations for containers, data management, and release/deployment solutions for programs
Automate software deployments into varied and complex environments using virtual machines, container technologies, Kubernetes, Cloud environments, and bare metal servers
Support engagements related to assessing, refactoring and identifying opportunities for existing applications to leverage modern application architectures (e.g. containers)
Participate in Agile sprints and associated activities
Support onsite work, as well as travel or offsite work, as needed
Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or computer engineering or equivalent discipline with 8+ years of experience
• Experience in Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud-based development and operations environments
• Active TS/SCI security clearance

• Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or other technical field (nice to have)
• Experience with architecting solutions in AWS Cloud environments (nice to have)
• Experience in key AWS services (such as EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53, CloudWatch, S3, etc.) (nice to have)
• Experience in supporting DevOps tools and pipeline environments, such as Jira, SharePoint, Bitbucket, Jenkins, SonarQube, and Artifactory (nice to have)
• Experience working with Container technologies (such as Kubernetes, Docker, etc.) (nice to have)
• Proficiency in Linux system administration (nice to have)
• Ability to design, enable, and deliver scalable and automated strategies through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, such as Ansible and Terraform (nice to have)
• Experience supporting cloud network resources such as VPC, URL proxies, private link, DNS, ACLs, Security groups, routing tables, etc. (nice to have)
• Background in scripting and/or coding, such as Java, Python, Terraform, and/or Bash (nice to have)
• CompTIA Security+ certification (or in pursuit of) (nice to have)
• Experience with on-premises to cloud migrations or IT transformations (nice to have)
• Experience in database administration; one or more of MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL (nice to have)
• Experience in AWS ElastiCache for Redis (nice to have)
• Expertise in the Git version control system command line (nice to have)
• Familiarity with Information Security frameworks/standards (i.e. CIS, NIST, RFC2196, etc.) (nice to have)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional (nice to have)