DevOps Engineer

M-Square Systems Inc.; Reston, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

M-Square Systems Inc. is seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer to build and maintain scalable production systems in a Reston, VA environment. You will troubleshoot issues, improve reliability, and support on-call rotations.

Responsibilities include remediating audit findings, enhancing security posture with the security team, and working with cloud technologies across AWS, GCP, and Azure, plus PostgreSQL tuning and automation.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in medium or large-scale production systems.
• Significant experience with PostgreSQL.
• Experience with security automation (ideally Chef).
• Experience with cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, and/or Azure).
• Experience in scripting (Bash, Python, and/or Ruby).
• Experience in Linux/Unix administration and solid networking knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable and performant production infrastructure, improving reliability across systems.
• Troubleshoot and debug infrastructure issues.
• Assist in remediating audit and compliance findings (SOC2, ISO, FedRAMP, FICAM).
• Work with security operations to improve security posture and manage vulnerabilities across systems.
• Identify and remediate scaling issues (e.g. PostgreSQL connection pooling).
• Assist in maintaining data warehousing and other critical infrastructure.
• Participate in on-call duties for production issues.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Security automation

Cloud technologies

Scripting

Linux/Unix administration

Networking

SRE concepts

Job description

• Build and maintain scalable and performant production infrastructure, improving and ensuring reliability across our systems
• Troubleshoot and debug infrastructure issues
• Assist in remediating audit and compliance findings (SOC2, ISO, FedRAMP, FICAM)
• Work with our security operations team to improve security posture and manage vulnerabilities across our systems
• Identify and remediate scaling issues (i.e PostgreSQL connection pooling)
• Assist in maintaining data warehousing and other critical infrastructure
• Participate in on-call duties for production issues

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of experience working in medium or large scale production systems
• Significant experience in PostgreSQL
• Experience with security automation (ideally Chef)
• Experience with cloud technologies (ie AWS, GCP, and/or Azure)
• Experience in scripting (ie Bash, Python, and/or Ruby)
• Experience in Linux/Unix administration and solid networking knowledge

Bonus Experience

• Experience with SRE Concepts, Chaos Engineering, Mean Time to Detect (MTTD), and Mean Time to Restore (MTTR)
• Familiarity with STIG guidelines and systems
• Experience with security compliance and audits (ie FICAM/FedRAMP)