DevOps Engineer/Systems Engineer (Mission Systems)

Dormont Manufacturing Co; North Dakota; On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Basic Life

Health Saving Account

401K matching

Three weeks of PTO/Sick

11 Paid Holidays

Pre‑Approved Online Training

Job summary

Dormont Manufacturing Co is seeking a DevOps Engineer/Systems Engineer to join our specialized engineering team in McLean, VA. The ideal candidate will play a critical role in designing and maintaining enterprise-grade mission systems and automating cloud infrastructures while ensuring high availability.

We offer competitive compensation and benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401K matching, along with generous PTO and holidays.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building and managing robust CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong proficiency in Terraform for AWS provisioning.
• Deep hands-on experience with core AWS services.
• Advanced proficiency in Bash and Python scripting.
• Experience managing containerized workloads.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise-grade mission systems.
• Drive DevOps excellence and ensure high availability.
• Automate complex cloud infrastructures.

Skills

CI/CD & Automation

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

AWS Expertise

Scripting

Containerization

Database Administration

Observability

Systems Integration

Architecture & Security

Version Control

Tools

Jenkins

Terraform

AWS EC2

AWS S3

AWS RDS

AWS Lambda

AWS VPC

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Docker

Prometheus

Alertmanager

Git

Job description

DevOps Engineer/Systems Engineer (Mission Systems)

Location: McLean, VA

Must have an active TS/SCI FS Poly

Role Overview:

Join a specialized engineering team dedicated to designing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise‑grade mission systems, networks, and applications. You will play a critical role in driving DevOps excellence, ensuring high availability, and automating complex cloud infrastructures.

Requirements

Mandatory Skills

• CI/CD & Automation: Proven experience building and managing robust pipelines with Jenkins (required).
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Strong proficiency in Terraform (required) for provisioning scalable AWS environments.
• AWS Expertise: Deep hands‑on experience with core services, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, and CloudWatch.
• Scripting: Advanced proficiency in Bash and Python (both required) for automation and systems integration.
• Containerization: Experience managing containerized workloads using Docker or Podman.
• Database Administration: Experience self‑hosting, tuning, and securing PostgreSQL and MySQL, including high‑availability and recovery strategies.
• Observability: Hands‑on experience with monitoring and alerting stacks, specifically Prometheus/Alertmanager and CloudWatch.
• Systems Integration: Proven ability to deploy and integrate diverse ecosystems, including COTS/GOTS, open‑source tools, and custom applications.
• Architecture & Security: Strong grasp of networking fundamentals, IAM policy hardening, and AWS Well‑Architected best practices.
• Version Control: Expert knowledge of Git-based workflows, branching strategies, and repository management.

Preferred Skills

• Data Operations: Experience managing Lakehouse architectures and data platform components (e.g., Apache Spark, Trino, Apache Ranger, Apache Iceberg, Apache Superset, data catalogs).
• Security & Governance: Familiarity with AWS Secrets Manager/Parameter Store and modern API gateway patterns.
• Resiliency & Planning: Knowledge of enterprise Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Planning (BCP).
• Advanced Workloads: Background in supporting AI/ML model‑serving infrastructure or NoSQL environments (DynamoDB, MongoDB).
• Efficiency: Experience with AWS cost optimization and right‑sizing strategies.
• Full-Stack Monitoring: Familiarity with the ELK Stack and Grafana for advanced visualization.
• Leadership: Experience mentoring junior team members and championing DevOps/Cloud‑native best practices.

Benefits

We are proud to offer competitive compensation and benefits packages to include

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Basic Life
• Health Saving Account
• 401K matching
• Three weeks of PTO/Sick
• 11 Paid Holidays
• Pre‑Approved Online Training