DevOps Engineer

Systems Engineering Solutions Corporation; Montgomery (AL); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

AD&D

STD

LTD

Company paid Life Insurance

401k with employer contribution

Paid Time Off

Pet Insurance

Job summary

Systems Engineering Solutions Corporation is seeking a DevOps Engineer to modernize a global multi-cloud environment for USAF missions. You will design and implement scalable cloud-native solutions, CI/CD pipelines, and secure deployment practices across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI.

You will collaborate with cloud engineers, cybersecurity analysts, and leadership to improve resiliency, performance, and cost effectiveness while adhering to security standards and incident response processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with 8+ years of experience.
• Active Secret clearance required.
• CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (IAT-2).
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment.
• Strong documentation, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps principles and Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).
• Security knowledge including threat modeling, vulnerability assessments, and encryption techniques.
• CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Argo CD.

Responsibilities

• Work with a group of 5–15 DevOps/SRE engineers to fulfill program requirements.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for secure, automated software delivery.
• Design and implement highly available, fault-tolerant systems on AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI.
• Implement monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, and CloudWatch.
• Support incident response and postmortem processes to drive continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with development teams to embed reliability into design and deployment.
• Support capacity planning to ensure scalable systems.
• Ensure security best practices (IAM, VPC, encryption).
• Develop IaC with Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Deploy and manage apps on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI).
• Configure Kubernetes/Docker for container orchestration.
• Maintain high availability, performance, and scalability.

Skills

DevOps

CI/CD

Documentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Agile

Threat modeling

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Argo CD

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

This role supports the U.S. Air Force Cloud One Architecture and Common Shared Services contract and currently has an opening for a DevOps Engineer. SES is seeking a DevOps Engineer supporting?AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle Clouds. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience?to?modernize a leading, global-scale?multi-cloud environment?in support of a critical mission, supporting USAF system resiliency, security, and cost effectiveness.

Location: This?position will be hybrid requiring some on-site work in either Boston, MA or Montgomery, AL. Requirements As a DevOps Engineer, you will develop scalable cloud-native solutions, and implement best practices across architecture, development, deployment, and security and you will work within a group of DevOps/SRE engineers. This role is essential to ensuring secure, scalable, and resilient connectivity across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.?You?ll?work closely with cloud engineers, cybersecurity analysts, and program leadership to drive continuous improvement and deliver value to the mission.

• Work with a group of?5-15?DevOps and SRE engineers to fulfill the requirements for the program
• Implement using software engineering principles to build and?maintain?scalable,?highly reliable, and performant large-scale systems
• Design, implement, and?maintain?CI/CD pipelines for secure, automated software delivery.
• Design and implement?highly available, fault-tolerant systems for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• Help?define, implement and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs to ensure service reliability and performance?
• Implement robust monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, and CloudWatch?
• Support incident response and postmortem processes to drive continuous improvement?
• Collaborate with development teams to embed reliability into application design and deployment?
• support capacity planning including forecasting resource needs to ensure systems can scale effectively.??
• Ensure compliance with security best practices, including IAM, VPC design, and encryption standards?
• Implement?DevSecOps?pipelines?for?a variety of technical stacks on?Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
• Develop infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.?
• Deploy and manage applications on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).?
• Configure and?optimize?container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker).?
• Maintain high availability, scalability, and performance of cloud-based systems.?
• Configure and?maintain?virtualized environments to ensure performance, scalability, and security
• Support infrastructure modernization efforts by integrating virtualization solutions into hybrid cloud environments.?
• Implement automated security tools for vulnerability scanning, static/dynamic application security testing (SAST/DAST), and container security.?
• Drive consistency for deployment and build processes
• Help establish proactive monitoring solutions to ensure system reliability and availability.?
• Respond to and troubleshoot production incidents, performing root cause analysis and resolution.?
• Embed security best practices into the SDLC and CI/CD processes.?
• Supports the development of strategy and integration?methodology?around design,?development?and implementation of?cloud-based?solutions
• Enable the quick development and release of changes and bug-fixes on an as-required basis and incorporate?feedback from developers/users.
• Prepare detailed technical documentation to support development and operational processes

Required Skills:

• Bachelor?s Degree and 8+ years or more of experience; additional years of experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.

• Must have an active Secret clearance.
• Certifications: CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (IAT-2)
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment ?
• Strong documentation, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills?
• Familiarity with?DevSecOps?principles and practices.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies such as Scrum and/or Kanban.
• Strong knowledge of security principles, including threat modeling, vulnerability assessments, and encryption techniques.?
• Deep understanding of CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Argo CD).?

Preferred Skills

• ?????? Experience with Zero Trust Architecture
• ?????? Cloud certifications?in AWS, Azure, Google, or Oracle clouds
• ?????? Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK Stack).
• ?????? Solid understanding of networking, Linux/Unix systems, and version control systems (e.g., Git)
• ?????? Proficiency?in programming/scripting languages (e.g., Python, Java, Bash, Go).
• ?????? Experience with configuration management and orchestration tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Puppet).
• ?????? Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• ?????? Example certifications?include:??Industry Professional certification Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Certified AWS?SysAdmin, AWS Certified Advanced Networking, AWS Certified Security, Azure Developer Associate, Azure Solutions Architect

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• AD&D
• STD
• LTD
• Company paid Life Insurance
• 401k with employer contribution
• Paid Time Off
• Pet Insurance