DevOps Engineer L3

Power3; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 175,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% company-paid health, dental, and

vision premiums

Automatic Health Savings Account (HSA)

Job summary

Power3 is seeking a DevOps engineer to develop infrastructure as code, automate tasks, and manage cloud platforms within a SCIF environment. The role emphasizes security clearance, collaboration, and advanced automation using Terraform, Kubernetes, and GitLab.

The candidate will patch, harden, and maintain compliance of RHEL, configure performance tuning, and support CI/CD pipelines using Argo CD and AWS services. This is an on-site SCIF role with comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• TS/SCI Poly - with CI poly within last 7 years.
• BS + 9+ years experience.

Responsibilities

• Developing Infrastructure As Code and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools.
• Install, configure, and provide performance tuning utilizing Kubernetes, Docker, Nifi, and cloud-native logging and metrics collection tools.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing, and deploying code using GitLab runners and Argo CD.
• Manage commercial cloud computing platforms (AWS).
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with team members and stakeholders.
• Note: position requires work in a SCIF.

Education

BS + 9+years experience

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

GitLab

Argo CD

AWS

Nifi

Docker Compose

Ansible

Job description

Description

• 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.
• 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).

Qualifications

• TS/SCI Poly - with CI poly within last 7 years
• BS + 9+years experience

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

Offering the very best compensation packages and the flexibility to let our employees decide what’s most important to them. No vesting schedule, no annual requirements for perks — we believe you should have the freedom to choose the benefits that work best in your life.

Employee Freedom of Choice

Our focus is on people first. We offer comprehensive and flexible compensation packages that match the best the industry has to offer and can be customized to fit your needs.

Our Benefits:

• 100% company-paid health, dental, and vision premiums
• Automatic company contributed Health Savings Account (HSA) up to $3,900 for families
• Up to 7 weeks of Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Automatic 401k Investment
• Paid 11 Federal Holidays
• BlueCross BlueShield Health Insurance
• Tuition/Training Reimbursement
• Access to Ravens season tickets in club level
• Company-paid golf events for your time and course fees

We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, pregnancy, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

The projected compensation range for this position is $175K - $210K. There are differentiating factors that can impact a final salary/hourly rate, including, but not limited to, Contract Wage Determination, relevant work experience, skills and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as Federal Government Contract Labor categories. In addition, we invest in our employees beyond just compensation. Our benefit offerings include, dependent upon position, Health Insurance, Dental and Vision Coverage, Health Savings Account (HSA), Paid Time Off, Holiday Pay, Short Term and Long Term Disability, Life Insurance, 401(k) Plan, Safe Harbor 401k Investment, Learning and Development opportunities, Referral Bonuses and Flex Time.