Agentic AWS DevOps SRE Engineer (TS/SCI)

Strategic Business Systems, Inc (SBS); Chantilly, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

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Job summary

Strategic Business Systems, Inc. (SBS) in Chantilly, VA is seeking an AWS DevOps / Agentic SRE Engineer with an active TS/SCI clearance to own deployment, reliability, and observability of secure AWS environments supporting an agentic AI platform.

This hands-on role combines DevOps, SRE, and release automation, covering the path from local development to production in AWS EKS, CDK, Helm, Flux GitOps, and modern tracing and observability tools.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance required.
• Current Security+ or equivalent certification.
• 3+ years of SRE/DevOps/platform/infrastructure engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production environments.
• Experience authoring and maintaining Helm charts.
• Experience implementing GitOps-based continuous delivery using Flux, Argo CD, or equivalent technologies.
• Hands-on AWS experience with EKS, RDS, S3, IAM/IRSA, and ECR.
• Experience developing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with TypeScript / AWS CDK in IaC environment.
• Experience implementing production observability and tracing (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Tempo).
• Demonstrated incident investigation and RCA skills.
• Proficiency with Python or other scripting for automation.
• Strong CI/CD, containers, networking, security, and modern cloud architecture knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, maintain, and operate highly available AWS infrastructure for an Agentic AI platform.
• Own the software delivery lifecycle from local development through build, test, packaging, promotion, and production deployment into AWS environments.
• Deploy and operate Kubernetes workloads in production AWS EKS environments.
• Author, maintain, and troubleshoot Helm charts for platform applications and services.
• Build and maintain GitOps-based CD using Flux, Helm, and registries.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK and TypeScript.
• Manage AWS infrastructure including EKS, RDS, S3, IAM/IRSA, and ECR.
• Maintain container-image and Helm-chart promotion processes.
• Configure Envoy Gateway routing, certificates, and TLS.
• Implement observability and distributed tracing via OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Tempo.
• Establish end-to-end tracing across services.
• Monitor health and proactively address reliability issues.
• Diagnose Helm/Flux failures, drift, and deployment issues.
• Lead production incident investigations and root-cause analyses.
• Develop preflight validation, diagnostic, QA, and tooling.
• Automate infrastructure and ops with Python and scripting.
• Support credential, certificate, and secrets rotation.
• Collaborate with software and AI/ML teams to deploy agentic apps and model-serving infra.
• Support platform security, compliance, IATT, and ATO.
• Use AI coding assistants with validation before deployment.
• Drive engineering via telemetry, testing, and verification.

Skills

TS/SCI Clearance

Security+ Certification

3+ years SRE/DevOps

Kubernetes in production

Helm charts

GitOps (Flux/Argo CD)

AWS (EKS/RDS/S3/IAM/IRSA/ECR)

Infrastructure as Code

TypeScript / AWS CDK

Observability (OpenTelemetry/Grafana/"

Incident RCA

Python scripting

CI/CD / Containers / Networking / Sec

Tools

Kubernetes

Flux

Argo CD

Helm

AWS CDK

Python

Job description

Strategic Business Systems, Inc. (SBS) in Chantilly, VA is seeking an AWS DevOps / Agentic SRE Engineer with an active TS/SCI clearance to own deployment, reliability, and observability of secure AWS environments supporting an agentic AI platform.

This hands-on role combines DevOps, SRE, and release automation, covering the path from local development to production in AWS EKS, CDK, Helm, Flux GitOps, and modern tracing and observability tools.