DevOps Engineer III

Reflexive Concepts; Maryland; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Reflexive Concepts is seeking a DevOps Engineer III to join our team in Maryland. You will design and implement infrastructure as code, automate tasks, and help maintain scalable cloud platforms.

The role emphasizes collaboration, security, and reliability, with hands-on work in AWS, Kubernetes, GitLab, and Argo CD to improve deployment pipelines and system uptime.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent in computer science or related field with security certification.
• Experience with IaC, CI/CD, and cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
• Strong scripting and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop Infrastructure As Code and scripting to automate tasks and provision services.
• Patch, harden, and maintain compliance on RHEL systems.
• Install, configure, and tune Kubernetes, Docker, and related tools; utilize logging/metrics.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines with GitLab runners and Argo CD; automate deployments.
• Collaborate with teams and stakeholders to ensure reliability and performance.

Skills

IaC

CI/CD

Python scripting

Security practices

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Security+ Certification

Tools

Terraform

GitLab

Argo CD

Docker

Nifi

AWS

Job description

Reflexive Concepts is seeking a DevOps Engineer III to join our team!

Responsibilities

• 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.

Desired

• 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.
• Security+ Certification is required.