DevOps Engineer

Reflexive Concepts; Hanover (MD); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Reflexive Concepts is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to join our ICAM team to build, maintain, and improve the infrastructure, deployment processes, and tooling that enable development teams to deliver reliable software efficiently.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Helm, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, Elasticsearch, containerization, monitoring, and automation, and is comfortable working alongside system engineers, software engineers, and security

Qualifications

• Ten or more years in DevOps or systems engineering roles.
• Degree in CS/Engineering or related field; 15 years total experience may substitute for degree.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve infrastructure and deployment tooling.
• Own DevOps initiatives from implementation to production support.
• Collaborate with software, system, and security teams to ensure reliability.

Skills

Collaboration

Communication

Leadership

Technical briefing

Team coordination

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

CI/CD pipelines

Ansible

Elasticsearch

Logstash

Kibana

MongoDB

JIRA

Confluence

PKI

REST APIs

Service-based architecture

Job description

Reflexive Concepts is seeking a skilled and motivated DevOps Engineer to join our growing team!

You will join the ICAM team to build, maintain, and improve the infrastructure, deployment processes, and tooling that enable development teams to deliver reliable software efficiently. The ideal candidate has hands‑on experience with Kubernetes and Helm, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, Elasticsearch, containerization, monitoring, and automation, and is comfortable working alongside system engineers, software engineers, and security teams while owning DevOps initiatives from implementation through production support.

Qualifications:

• Ten (10) years of systems engineering or DevOps experience
• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
  • An additional four (4) years of systems engineering or DevOps experience may be substituted for the degree, for a total of fifteen (15) years

Desired Skills:

• Must be able to work in a collaborative environment, with minimal supervision
• Experience with Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management
• Experience developing and maintaining Helm charts for application deployment and configuration
• Experience with GitOps tools and CI/CD pipeline integration
• Infrastructure-as-code and automation experience using Ansible
• Understanding of scalability and high-availability strategies with deployments across multiple service centers (e.g., availability zones)
• Experience with PKI and certificate-based authentication
• Familiarity with REST APIs and service-based architecture
• Experience managing Elasticsearch clusters, Logstash pipelines, and Kibana dashboards, with a focus on cluster performance and data ingestion
• Experience supporting systems using MongoDB
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Experience collaborating with software developers, test engineers, and system administrators
• Ability to lead technical discussions and brief technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience developing program review materials
• Experience using JIRA and Confluence