DevOps Engineer 5 [D.26.0158]

Dover Networks LLC; Maryland; On-site; USD 248,000 - 272,000; Full time

Job summary

Dover Networks LLC is seeking a DevOps/Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain a highly available cloud platform. The role focuses on orchestrating microservices within a modernized operational system using cutting-edge AWS services and automation tools.

Candidates should have a strong background in Terraform, Kubernetes (EKS/ECS/Fargate), Docker, and GitLab CI/CD, along with a current CWIP certificate and a Top Secret/SCI clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or 12+ years of professional experience; or 10+ years with a related Masters degree.
• Current CWIP (DoD 8140) certificate.

Responsibilities

• Provide a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates microservices of a modernized operational system.
• Architect infrastructure leveraging AWS technologies and services.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code and scripting to automate tasks and provision managed services.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing, and deploying code with GitLab runners and Argo CD.
• Collaborate with development teams and stakeholders to optimize performance and reliability.

Skills

AWS infra

IaC

Python

Ansible

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Education

Bachelor's degree

CWIP certificate

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

Argo CD

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Requires Top Secret/SCI with Full Scope Poly

Salary Range: $248k-$272k per year with an additional $62k-$68k in immediately vested company 401(k) contributions

Responsibilities

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

• Extensive experience architecting infrastructure leveraging AWS technologies and services
• Developing Infrastructure As Code (laC) 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.

Duties

• 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.
• Current CWIP (DoD 8140) certificate.

Desired 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