DevOps Engineer oror-; AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform

• Annapolis Junction, Maryland

Clearance: TS/SCI - Polygraph required within 7 years
Position : 09-8872-AD4orAD4/5orAD5
Location: Annapolis Junction, Maryland

Dev Ops Development Lead - Dev Ops Engineer supporting a modernized operational system.

Little to no work from home; significant or all work performed in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF).

• Provide a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates the microservices of a modernized operational system utilizing cutting edge technologies
• Architect infrastructure leveraging AWS technologies and services
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools
• Install, configure, and provide performance tuning utilizing Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, Docker, Docker Compose, etc.
• Iteratively evaluate costs, recommend cost savings measures, reduce maintenance, and reduce AWS services costs
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with other team members, as well as with stakeholders

• 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 Dev Ops 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 Git Lab runners and Argo CD
• Able to communicate and collaborate effectively with other team members, as well as with stakeholders

• 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

12 years or more of professional experience; or 10 years of professional experience with a related Masters degree

Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education

Able to support an on-call rotation

12 years or more of professional experience; or 10 years of professional experience with a related Masters degree

Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education

Able to support an on-call rotation

15 years or more of professional experience; or 13 years of professional experience with a related Masters degree

Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education

Able to support an on-call rotation

$217k-$285k (Annually)

The range displayed above is a likely salary range for this position. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possible contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Akina is a Woman Owned, Service Disabled, Veteran Owned, Small Business, looking for talented and ambitious individuals to join our team. We offer a generous compensation package that includes 24 days PTO accrued annually and 11 federal holidays. Our 401k is 100% vested on your start date and the company makes a direct contribution worth 10% of your salary. Akina covers 100% of healthcare costs for employees and 50% toward dependents.

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