DevOps Engineer Lead

Index Analytics; Baltimore (MD); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Index Analytics LLC in Baltimore, MD is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, automate, and secure AWS cloud environments for federal clients. You will drive platform reliability across the software lifecycle and partner with product teams to improve deployment efficiency.

The role emphasizes CI/CD pipelines, IaC with Terraform/CloudFormation, monitoring, security scanning, and cost controls, with collaboration across security, data and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT or CS and 5+ years of IT experience.
• 2+ years of hands-on AWS or similar cloud experience.
• Experience with CI/CD and IaC using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience with Linux, scripting, and Python/JS/Go.
• Strong communication and Agile delivery experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, or comparable platforms.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent tools.
• Automate build, test, security scanning, deployment and environment-provisioning processes.
• Operate and maintain AWS infrastructure with monitoring, patching, backup, recovery, capacity and cost controls.
• Implement logging, monitoring, alerting and observability using CloudWatch, Splunk, New Relic, or comparable tools.
• Integrate code quality, software composition, vulnerability and container scanning into delivery pipelines.
• Support containerized workloads and orchestration platforms where applicable.
• Partner with security teams on architecture reviews, control implementation, assessments, penetration testing and remediation.
• Troubleshoot deployment and production issues, conduct root-cause analysis and maintain operational runbooks.
• Advise Agile teams on automation, tooling, DevSecOps standards and continuous improvement.

Skills

AWS

CI/CD

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Linux

Python

JavaScript

Go

Monitoring

Security scanning

Agile

Observability

Cost controls

Education

Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, or a related discipline

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Splunk

New Relic

CloudWatch

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

Job Details: Level: Senior, Job Location: Baltimore, MD 21244, Education Level: 4 Year Degree, Salary Range: $145,000.00 - $185,000.00 Salary/year, ABOUT INDEX ANALYTICS

Index Analytics, LLC delivers mission-critical health, data, technology and consulting solutions for the federal government. We foster a collaborative, employee-focused culture that supports professional growth, continuous learning, flexibility and meaningful work that improves public outcomes.

POSITION OVERVIEW

Index Analytics is seeking a DevOps Engineer to design, automate, secure and maintain AWS cloud environments for federal clients. This role provides platform and delivery support throughout the software development lifecycle and partners with application, data, security and product teams to improve deployment reliability, observability and operational efficiency.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, or comparable platforms.
• Develop and manage reusable infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent tools.
• Automate build, test, security scanning, deployment, configuration and environment-provisioning processes.
• Operate and maintain AWS infrastructure, including monitoring, patching, backup, recovery, capacity and cost controls.
• Implement logging, monitoring, alerting and observability using CloudWatch, Splunk, New Relic, or comparable tools.
• Integrate code quality, software composition, vulnerability and container scanning into delivery pipelines.
• Support containerized workloads and orchestration platforms where applicable.
• Partner with security teams on architecture reviews, control implementation, assessments, penetration testing and remediation.
• Troubleshoot deployment and production issues, conduct root-cause analysis and maintain operational runbooks.
• Advise Agile teams on automation, tooling, DevSecOps standards and continuous improvement.

Qualifications: MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, or a related discipline and at least five (5) years of relevant IT experience.
• At least two (2) years of hands-on AWS or comparable cloud-platform experience.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, Git-based workflows and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience with Linux, scripting and at least one language such as Python, JavaScript, or Go.
• Working knowledge of cloud architecture, monitoring, logging, security scanning and incident troubleshooting.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience working in Agile delivery teams.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• AWS certification; experience with Docker, Kubernetes, MLOps, FinOps, or the AWS Well-Architected Framework.