Devops Engineer Level 3

CTRL + LLC; Corridor North (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible healthcare options

Tech reimbursement

100% Employer-paid Life, AD&D Insurance

Flexible PTO

Referral bonus

Job summary

CTRL + LLC is seeking a highly skilled DevOps Engineer in Maryland. The role requires significant experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and extensive DevOps practices. An active Top Secret clearance with polygraph is mandatory, ensuring work mainly in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility.

In addition to a competitive salary, the position offers flexible healthcare options, generous PTO, and employer-paid benefits to support work-life balance and professional growth.

Qualifications

• Must have 12+ years of professional experience or 10 years with a master's degree.
• Active Top Secret clearance with polygraph is required.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services and containerization technologies.

Responsibilities

• Architect infrastructure leveraging AWS and support microservices.
• Automate tasks using IaC and scripting.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines for code deployment.

Skills

AWS technologies

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

GitLab

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related discipline

Tools

Terraform

Docker

AWS

Job description

Security Clearance with Polygraph is required

Provide a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates microservices of a modernized operational system utilizing cutting‑edge technologies.

DevOps Engineer will be responsible for:

• Extensive experience architecting infrastructure leveraging AWS technologies and services
• Developing Infrastructure As Code (IaC) and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools
• Strong background in containerization technologies: install, configure, and provide performance tuning utilizing Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, Docker, Docker Compose, etc.
• Perform high‑level functional systems analysis, design, integration, documentation, cost analysis, implementation, and complex issue resolutions
• Cloud infrastructure cost savings: iteratively evaluate costs, recommend cost savings measures, reduce maintenance, and reduce AWS services costs
• Sprint priority decomposition and ticket generation to align with internal team priorities
• Manage team tasking and sprint workloads, keeping the team on task and executing in an orchestrated manner
• Tracking ticket execution while driving technical direction of the infrastructure to align with the program and product needs
• Managing CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing, and deploying code utilizing GitLab runners and Argo CD
• Communication and collaboration: Able to communicate and collaborate effectively with other team members, as well as with stakeholders

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education
• 12 years or more of professional experience; or 10 years of professional experience with a related Masters degree
• An active Top Secret clearance with polygraph (CI must be within the last 7 years). 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)
• Current CWIP (DoD 8140) certificate

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 autoscaling
• 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

Benefits:

• Flexible healthcare options (CareFirst medical, dental & vision)
• Dependent Care FSA (up to $5,000 household / $2,500 individual)
• Tech reimbursement – up to $1,500 every other year
• 100% Employer‑paid Life, AD&D, Short‑ & Long‑Term Disability Insurance
• 100% Employer‑paid 10% 401(k) contribution (vested immediately)
• Sign‑on & retention bonuses
• Flexible PTO (carry over up to 300 hours + payout for excess)
• Paid hours for company events & training
• Referral bonus: $1.50/hr extra for successful hires you refer

Equal Opportunity Employer

Ctrl+ is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.