Automation‑First DevOps & SRE Engineer (AWS)

CTAC; Falls Church (VA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

CTAC is seeking DevOps Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers to support a government contract. The role emphasizes treating operations issues as software challenges, with automation-first focus and fallback to runbooks as needed.

The position involves supporting applications across on-premises, cloud, and platform-as-a-service environments. It operates in a hybrid in-person/remote setup, with up to three in-person days weekly, primarily in Northern Virginia, and possible travel to client

Qualifications

• 5+ years of development and operations experience (DevOps/SRE)
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Experience with monitoring, logging, CI/CD
• Experience managing Linux and Windows servers in a hybrid environment
• Experience with vulnerability scanning, monitoring, and incident response
• Identity management systems experience (Okta preferred)
• Strong analytical and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Support operations and maintenance of on-premises and cloud-based applications
• Develop automated tooling and scripts to reduce manual effort
• Contribute back to project software to improve processes and visibility
• Assist in debugging applications, databases, and middleware using AI tools
• Configure monitoring, alerting, and notification tooling for cloud and on-prem
• Develop cloud-first apps, infrastructure as code, and tooling to improve processes
• Support and maintain Identity Management Systems at federal client (Okta-based)

Skills

Programming language experience

Scripting languages

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS or related field

Tools

Okta identity management

CI/CD tooling

Monitoring tools

Vulnerability scanning tools

Linux/Windows server administration

AWS cloud tooling

Infrastructure as code

Job description

CTAC is seeking DevOps Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers to support a government contract. The role emphasizes treating operations issues as software challenges, with automation-first focus and fallback to runbooks as needed.

The position involves supporting applications across on-premises, cloud, and platform-as-a-service environments. It operates in a hybrid in-person/remote setup, with up to three in-person days weekly, primarily in Northern Virginia, and possible travel to client