DevOps Engineer Booz Allen Hamilton Springfield, IL

Filrsafekeep; Springfield (IL); On-site; USD 67,000 - 93,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentor guidance

Benefits package

Growth opportunities in AWS Lambda

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a DevOps Engineer for Springfield, IL, fluent in AWS Lambda. The role emphasizes empathy and ownership across a team-driven environment, with compensation in the 67,000 – 93,000 USD range annually.

You will work with cross-functional teams to ship fixes quickly and optimize infrastructure, while growing in a mentorship-friendly setting. Join a collaborative group that values collective wins, builds resilient systems, and continuously improves cloud-native

Qualifications

• Pulumi depth and Incident Response curiosity are required.
• Strong critical thinking and independent judgment.
• Solid networking fundamentals with practical, on-site applicability.
• Ability to debug complex systems and triage production incidents.

Responsibilities

• Ship Helm fixes to Booz Allen Hamilton clients in Springfield, IL the same day they report them.
• Coordinate releases with stakeholders across Springfield, IL and remote teams.
• Translate business requirements into technical specs and tasks.
• Optimize application performance, latency, and resource use at scale.
• Trace and fix bugs across multiple services to keep systems healthy.
• Sketch and defend infrastructure designs, then implement them.
• Monitor system health and set up alerting for production environments.

Skills

Pulumi depth

Incident Response curiosity

Critical thinking

Independent judgment

Networking

Debugging

Job description

We engineer high-availability platforms, and we are searching for a DevOps Engineer fluent in AWS Lambda to keep them humming. The Springfield role is less about the $67,000 - $93,000 and more about what 3 years of Empathy lets you own at Booz Allen Hamilton.

Key Responsibilities

• Ship Helm fixes to Booz Allen Hamilton customers in Springfield, IL the same day they report them
• Coordinate releases with stakeholders across Springfield, IL and remote teams
• Translate unfussy business requirements into technical specifications and tasks
• Optimize application performance, latency, and resource utilization at scale
• Trace a deeply-curious technology bug across three Continuous Learning services to the one bad line
• Sketch the Packer architecture, defend it in review, then build the thing
• Monitor system health and set up alerting for low-drama production environments

What You'll Bring

• Equal parts Pulumi depth and Incident Response curiosity
• Critical thinking skills and sound, independent judgment
• Self-direction that survives a quiet Slack channel
• A steady hand when three priorities all claim to be number one
• Practical Networking skills sharpened in a temporary setting
• The grit to debug at 4pm on a Friday without complaint

Long obsessed with Redis, Booz Allen Hamilton has turned a Springfield office into one of the experiment-friendly centers of technology innovation in IL. Collaboration over heroics is our default, and we'd rather win as a group than burn anyone out.

Get $67,000 - $93,000, get a mentor, get benefits, and get the freedom to grow your AWS Lambda without anyone watching the clock.

Interviews for Springfield, IL candidates are being booked throughout the month.

We welcome applications from driven professionals ready to make an impact.