Senior DevOps Engineer

At Two Six Technologies, we build, deploy, and implement innovative products that solve the world’s most complex challenges today. Through unrivaled collaboration and unwavering trust, we push the boundaries of what’s possible to empower our team and support our customers in building a safer global future.

Two Six Technologies is looking for a Senior Dev Ops Engineer to work within a cross-functional development team focused on advancing state‑of‑the‑art projects within the growing cybersecurity technology team in Arlington, VA.

• Proactive Problem Solving:
  Demonstrate a strong drive to independently identify challenges and propose effective, scalable solutions.
• Technical Acumen:
  Apply deep technical intuition and critical thinking when tackling complex or unfamiliar problems.
• Results‑Oriented:
  Prioritize metrics‑driven outcomes and consistently deliver work that creates measurable, meaningful impact.
• Documentation Excellence:
  Maintain a habit of thoroughly documenting code, system designs, and processes to ensure clarity and long‑term maintainability.
• Mentorship and
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Exhibit a passion for mentoring team members, fostering collaboration, and sharing knowledge to elevate the entire team.
• Determination:
  Willingness to stick with a project/task till completion while others on the team tackle different projects.

• Troubleshoot and investigate issues at the Linux operating system level, including services, logs, permissions, networking, packages, and runtime behavior.
• Explore, understand, and debug developer code across multiple languages and frameworks in order to determine how applications are built, configured, deployed, and executed.
• Trace problems across the full deployment path, from source code and build pipelines to containers, operating systems, infrastructure, and runtime environments.
• Work independently or in small groups through unfamiliar or quickly changing systems by reading documentation, inspecting code/configuration, testing assumptions, and narrowing down root causes.

• Proficiency in Coding:
  Strong expertise in scripting languages, with a primary focus on Python and bash scripting.
• Design Patterns Expertise:
  Demonstrated ability to apply software design patterns to build robust, maintainable, and reusable code architectures.
• CI/CD and Tooling:
  Expert proficiency in CI/CD tooling and pipelines, with hands‑on experience using tools like Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, and Git Lab Pipelines.
• Educational Background:
  Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field or comparable experience.
• Experience:
  
  Minimum of 5 years of technical coding experience.
• Dev Ops
  
  Experience:
  
  Minimum of 3 years of experience implementing and supporting Dev Ops practices in a production environment.
• Containerization Proficiency:
  Significant experience working with containerization technologies, particularly Docker.
• Modern Development Practices:
  Proficiency in modern software development practices, including version control (e.g., Git), CI/CD pipelines, and agile methodologies.
• Scalable Architecture Design:
  Proven experience designing and implementing scalable architectures in production environments.
• Collaboration Tools:
  Proficiency in using project management and collaboration tools like JIRA and Confluence.

• Cloud Expertise:
  Experience with major cloud service providers, including AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.
• Containerization and Orchestration:
  Familiarity with tools like Kubernetes, Helm, EKS, and ArgoCD.
• Web Frameworks:
  Hands‑on experience with Python frameworks such as Django or FastAPI.
• Automation and Configuration Management:
  Experience with tools like Chef, Ansible, or Puppet to streamline infrastructure management.
• Virtualization Knowledge:
  General understanding and experience with virtualization technologies, such as VMware, Hyper‑V, or Xen.
• Infrastructure Best Practices:
  Knowledge of best practices for infrastructure security, reliability, and fault tolerance.
• Cybersecurity Awareness:
  Familiarity with cybersecurity systems and principles to safeguard infrastructure and applications.