DevOps Engineer III

Reflexive Concepts; Maryland; On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Reflexive Concepts in the United States, Maryland seeks a DevOps Engineer III to deliver a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates microservices in a modernized system using cutting edge technologies. You will build and maintain IaC, automate tasks, and support cloud-native tooling.

The role emphasizes collaboration with development teams and stakeholders, patching and hardening Linux environments, and tuning Kubernetes clusters on AWS (EKS/ECS/Fargate) to improve performance and

Qualifications

• Nine (9) years of experience as a DevOps Engineer in programs of similar scope and complexity.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university.
• Four (4) years of additional Engineer experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

Responsibilities

• Develop 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.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing, and deploying code utilizing GitLab runners and Argo CD.
• Manage commercial cloud computing platforms (AWS).
• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure including EC2, Lambdas, S3, SNS, SQS, Event Router, Athena, Step Functions using Terraform and auto scaling.
• Understand 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.

Skills

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Scripting

Team collaboration

Cloud concepts

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

GitLab

Argo CD

Kubernetes (EKS/ECS/Fargate)

Docker

AWS

Nifi

Lambdas

Job description

Reflexive Concepts is seeking a DevOps Engineer III to join our team!
Specifically, we are seeking someone who will 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:

• Developing Infrastructure As Code and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools. Popular programming languages for DevOps engineers include Python, Ansible, and Terraform.
• 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.
• 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

Requirements:

• Nine (9) years experience as a DevOps Engineer in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
  • Four (4) years of additional Engineer experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.