ME-DevOps Engineer

ME00605-Dev Ops Engineer

Momentum Engineering Annapolis Junction, Maryland, United States

Momentum Engineering, Inc. fosters an employee‑centric culture. Our strength lies in our people. With a high percentage of employees holding advanced degrees in engineering, computer science, and related disciplines, we bring deep technical expertise to every mission. Our team includes professionals with security clearances and full‑scope polygraphs, ensuring trusted, secure support for the most sensitive national security initiatives. Our workforce is also equipped with industry‑leading certifications, demonstrating a commitment to continuous learning and excellence.

Our exceptional employee retention rate reflects a culture of professional growth, mission focus, and dedication—ensuring long‑term stability and expertise for our customers’ critical needs.

Seeking a Dev Ops Engineer to support a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates the microservices of a modernized operational system utilizing cutting‑edge technologies.

• 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 include Python, Ansible, and Terraform.
• Strong background in containerization technologies: install, configure, and provide performance tuning utilizing Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, Docker, and Docker Compose.
• Perform high‑level functional systems analysis, design, integration, documentation, cost analysis, implementation, and complex issue resolutions.
• Evaluate cloud infrastructure costs iteratively, recommend cost‑saving measures, reduce maintenance, and reduce AWS services costs.
• Decompose sprint priorities and generate tickets to align with internal team priorities.
• Manage team tasking and sprint workloads, keeping the team on task and executing in an orchestrated manner.
• Track ticket execution while driving technical direction of the infrastructure to align with program and product needs.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing, and deploying code utilizing Git Lab runners and Argo CD.
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with other team members and stakeholders.

• Must have active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph.
• Bachelor’s 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 Master’s degree.
• Current CWIP (DoD 8140) certificate.

• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure including EC2, Lambdas, S3, SNS, SQS, Event Router, Athena, and Step Functions using Terraform and auto‑scaling.
• Understanding of AWS networking principles, including VPCs, NATs, and IP gateways.
• Develop and manage Git Lab 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.

Pay range: 180, USD per year (NBP).