Cleared Lead DevOps Engineer

Cleared Lead Dev Ops Engineer

Join Bestgate Engineering, where we deliver cutting-edge solutions for national security and enterprise innovation. At Bestgate, we’re driven by excellence, teamwork, and a commitment to empowering our people.

Bestgate Engineering is seeking a cleared Lead Dev Ops Engineer to support the development and sustainment of a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates microservices within a modernized operational system using cutting edge technologies. This role is ideal for a Dev Ops professional with strong cloud infrastructure, automation, containerization, and CI/CD experience supporting mission critical environments. This position will also provide technical leadership across infrastructure priorities, sprint execution, and Dev Ops team coordination.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education.
• 12+ years of professional experience; or 10+ years with a related Master’s degree.
• Extensive experience architecting infrastructure leveraging AWS technologies and services.
• Experience developing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation scripting using technologies such as Python, Ansible, and Terraform.
• Strong background in containerization technologies including Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, Docker, and Docker Compose.
• Experience performing high level functional systems analysis, integration, implementation, and complex issue resolution.
  
  Experience evaluating and optimizing cloud infrastructure costs and AWS service utilization.
• Experience managing sprint priorities, ticket decomposition, and team tasking in Agile environments.
• Experience tracking ticket execution and driving technical direction aligned to program and product needs.
• Experience managing CI/CD pipelines utilizing Git Lab runners and Argo CD.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills within a team oriented environment.

• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure including EC2, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, Event Router, Athena, and Step Functions using Terraform and auto scaling.
• Understanding of AWS networking principles including VPCs, NATs, and IP Gateway.
• 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.

Salary Range: $195,000 - $240,000

• PTO: Starting at 26 days with options to increase or decrease for personal needs.
• 401k: 7% gift, fully vested from day one!
• Free Medical, Dental, Vision: Coverage for employees and dependents.
• $5,000 in Training: For certifications, conferences, and continued learning.
• End-of-Year Bonuses: Recognizing your hard work.
• Morale-Building
  
  Hours:
  
  8 hours annually for team-building activities.

Equal Opportunity

Employer:

Bestgate is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.