DevOps Engineer 3 - (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform)

Akina, Inc.; Maryland; On-site; USD 195,000 - 239,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO 24 days

11 federal holidays

401k 10% match

Healthcare fully covered

Education assistance

Job summary

Akina, Inc. seeks a DevOps professional in Annapolis Junction, MD to build a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates microservices for a modernized operational system using cutting edge technologies.

You will develop Infrastructure as Code, implement CI/CD with GitLab runners and Argo CD, manage AWS cloud services, and tune Kubernetes in a SCIF environment requiring TS/SCI - Polygraph clearance.

Qualifications

• Experience developing Infrastructure As Code and scripting to automate tasks and provision services.
• Experience patching, hardening, and maintaining compliance of RHEL.
• Install, configure, and tune Kubernetes, Docker, Nifi, and cloud-native logging/metrics.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines with GitLab runners and Argo CD; AWS cloud management.

Skills

IaC scripting

Kubernetes

GitLab CI/CD

AWS

SCIF access

Communication

RHEL patching

On-call rotation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Terraform

Job description

• Annapolis Junction, Maryland

Clearance: TS/SCI - Polygraph required within 7 years
Position ID: 09-8760-DEVOPS3
Location: Annapolis Junction, Maryland

Description

Provide a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates the microservices of a modernized operational system utilizing cutting edge technologies.

Develop Infrastructure As Code and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools.

Install, configure, and provide performance tuning utilizing Kubernetes, Docker Compose, Nifi, and cloud native logging and metrics collection tools.

Manage CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing, and deploying code utilizing GitLab runners and Argo CD.

Manage commercial cloud computing platforms (AWS).

Position Required Skills

• Developing Infrastructure As Code and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools.
• Experience patching, hardening, and maintaining compliance of RHEL.
• Install, configure, and provide performance tuning utilizing Kubernetes, Docker Compose, Nifi, and cloud native logging and metrics collection tools.
• Managing CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing, and deploying code utilizing GitLab runners and Argo CD.
• Managing commercial cloud computing platforms (AWS).
• Communication and collaboration: DevOps is a team-oriented discipline. Engineers need to be able to communicate and collaborate effectively with other team members, as well as with stakeholders.
• The position allows little to no work from home and will require a significant portion or all work to be performed in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF).

Position Desired Skills

• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure including but not limited to EC2, Lambdas, S3, SNS, SQS, Event Router, Athena, Step Functions using Terraform and auto scaling.
• Understanding of AWS networking principles to include VPCs, NATs, IP Gateway.
• Develop and manage Gitlab CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment processes.
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance and reliability.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and ensure system uptime.
• Kubernetes experience with a focus on EKS, ECS, and/or Fargate.

DEVOPS3 Qualifications

Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education.

Able to support an on-call rotation.

Salary Range

$195k-$239k (Annually)

The range displayed above is a likely salary range for this position. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possible contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Akina is a Woman Owned, Service Disabled, Veteran Owned, Small Business, looking for talented and ambitious individuals to join our team.

• We offer a generous compensation package that includes 24 days PTO accrued annually and 11 federal holidays.
• Our 401k is 100% vested on your start date and the company makes a direct contribution worth 10% of your salary.
• Akina covers 100% of healthcare costs for employees and 50% toward dependents.
• We offer educational assistance towards college classes and will cover costs associated with job related training and certifications.

Akina is committed to excellence and creating innovative and flexible solutions for our clients. We are a small company with an open ear to our employees' needs in order to attract and retain quality talent that enables our customer's mission.

We are an equal employment opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.