DevOps Engineer Lead

Index Analytics LLC; Milford Mill (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Index Analytics, LLC is seeking a DevOps Engineer to design, automate, secure and maintain AWS cloud environments for federal clients. The role partners with application, data, security and product teams to improve deployment reliability and operational efficiency.

You will design and implement CI/CD pipelines, manage infrastructure-as-code, and drive automation across the software delivery lifecycle while collaborating with Agile teams to adopt DevSecOps best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, or a related discipline plus five or more years of IT experience.
• Hands-on AWS or comparable cloud platform experience for at least two years.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline or comparable platforms.
• Develop and manage infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, CloudFormation or equivalent tools.
• Automate build, test, security scanning, deployment and environment provisioning processes.
• Operate and maintain AWS infrastructure including monitoring, patching, backup, recovery 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 and remediation.
• Troubleshoot deployment and production issues, perform root-cause analysis and maintain runbooks.
• Advise Agile teams on automation, tooling and DevSecOps standards.

Skills

CI/CD

Terraform

CloudFormation

Linux

Scripting

Python

Go

JavaScript

Agile

Communication

Education

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

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

AWS CodePipeline

Docker

Kubernetes

New Relic

Job description

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.

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.