DevOps Engineer 4/5 *Team Lead*

Stratyx; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Stratyx seeks a Team Lead DevOps Engineer in Annapolis Junction, MD to architect and maintain a reliable platform for a modernized system. You will lead the infrastructure using AWS, IaC tooling, and container orchestration with Kubernetes while driving CI/CD automation.

Responsibilities include managing team priorities, optimizing costs, and ensuring high availability, security, and on-call readiness, with limited work-from-home flexibility in a SCIF environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline with 12+ years of experience, or 10+ years with a related Master's.
• Active Top Secret clearance with polygraph; CI within the last 7 years.
• Strong extensive AWS experience, IaC, scripting, and automation capabilities.
• Ability to operate in a SCIF and support on-call rotations.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and optimize AWS infrastructure and services.
• Design, build, and manage CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI/CD and Argo CD.
• Lead and coordinate DevOps tasks, sprints, and workload planning for the team.
• Monitor cost, performance, and reliability; drive optimization across environments.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve application reliability and scalability.

Skills

AWS architecture

Kubernetes

CI/CD automation

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related discipline

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

GitLab CI/CD

Argo CD

EKS

Job description

# DevOps Engineer 4/5 \\*Team Lead\\** Annapolis Junction, MD* Full-time* just now## About this role\\*TEAM LEAD\\*The Work:Provide a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates the microservices of a modernized operational system utilizing cutting edge technologies. The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for:- Extensive experience architecting infrastructure leveraging AWS technologies and services- Developing Infrastructure As Code (IaC) and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools. Popular programming languages for DevOps engineers include Python, Ansible, and Terraform.- Strong background in containerization technologies: install, configure, and provide performance tuning utilizing Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, Docker, Docker Compose, etc.- Perform high-level functional systems analysis, design, integration, documentation, cost analysis, implementation, and complex issue resolutions.- Cloud infrastructure cost savings: iteratively evaluate costs, recommend cost savings measures, reduce maintenance, and reduce AWS services costs.- Sprint priority decomposition and ticket generation to align with internal team priorities.- Manage team tasking and sprint workloads, keeping the team on task and executing in an orchestrated manner.- Tracking ticket execution while driving technical direction of the infrastructure to align with the program and product needs.- Managing CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing, and deploying code utilizing GitLab runners and Argo CD.- Communication and collaboration: Able to communicate and collaborate effectively with other team members, as well as with stakeholders.Basic Qualifications :- Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education- 12 years or more of professional experience; or 10 years of professional experience with a related Masters degree.- An active Top Secret clearance with polygraph (CI must be within the last 7 years). 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).\\*\\*\\*Able to support an on-call rotationDesired skills (2 of the below):- 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