DevOps Engineer - TS

Leading Path Consulting LLC; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision premiums

Generous PTO

11 Paid Holidays

401K contribution

Training and tuition reimbursement

Spot Award bonuses

Regular team events

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Leading Path Consulting LLC is seeking a DevOps-focused professional with Active TS/SCI w/ FS Poly clearance to design, implement, and maintain enterprise mission systems, networks, and applications. You will manage CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins) and IaC (Terraform) while leveraging AWS services and containerization technologies.

Role emphasizes automation, monitoring, and secure cloud architectures. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure scale, reliability, and compliance across

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins required).
• Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools: Terraform (required).
• Demonstrated experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, and other core services.
• Demonstrated experience with containerization (Docker and Podman).
• Strong scripting proficiency: Bash (required) and Python (required).
• Experience with database self-hosting including installation, configuration, backup/recovery, high availability, and performance tuning (PostgreSQL and MySQL).
• Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting systems such as Prometheus/Alertmanager and CloudWatch.
• Demonstrated experience integrating and deploying diverse software systems: AWS cloud services, open-source applications, COTS/GOTS products, and custom applications.
• Strong understanding of networking, security, IAM policies, and AWS architecture best practices.
• Experience with Git-based workflows, branching strategies, and version control best practices.

Responsibilities

• Support a team specializing in designing, engineering, implementation, development and maintenance of enterprise quality mission systems, networks, and applications - DevOps position.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Jenkins

Terraform

AWS services

Containerization

Bash

Python

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Prometheus/Alertmanager

CloudWatch

Git workflows

Networking & security

IAM policies

Tools

Jenkins

Terraform

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Podman

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Prometheus

CloudWatch

Git

Job description

Active TS/SCI w/ FS Poly REQUIRED

Support a team specializing in designing, engineering, implementation, development and maintenance of enterprise quality mission systems, networks, and applications - DevOps position

Mandatory Skills

• Demonstrated experience implementing and managing Cl/CD pipelines (Jenkins required)
• Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools: Terraform (required)
• Demonstrated experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, 1AM, CloudWatch, and other core services
• Demonstrated experience with containerization (such as Docker and Pod man)
• Strong scripting proficiency: Bash (required) and Python (required)
• Experience with database self-hosting including installation, configuration, backup/recovery, high availability, and performance tuning (PostgreSQL and MySQL)
• Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting systems such as Prometheus/Alertmanager and CloudWatch
• Demonstrated experience integrating and deploying diverse software systems: AWS cloud services, open-source applications, COTS/GOTS products, and custom applications
• Strong understanding of networking, security, 1AM policies, and AWS architecture best practices
• Experience with Git-based workflows, branching strategies, and version control best practices

Optional Skills

• Experience deploying and managing data platform components: Apache Spark, Tri no, Apache Ranger, Apache Iceberg, Apache Superset, data catalogs
• Familiarity with data lakehouse architectures and supporting infrastructure
• Experience with secrets management solutions (AWS Secrets Manager, Parameter Store)
• Knowledge of disaster recovery, backup strategies, and continuity planning
• Familiarity with API gateways and modern microservices patterns
• Experience with cost optimization practices in AWS
• Background deploying and supporting Al/ML workloads or model serving infrastructure
• Experience mentoring team members on DevOps and cloud best practices
• Experience with NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, MongoDB, etc.)
• Familiarity with additional monitoring tools (Grafana, ELK stack)
• Experience integrating customer's Enterprise services

Mandatory Skills

• Demonstrated experience implementing and managing Cl/CD pipelines (Jenkins required)
• Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools: Terraform (required)
• Demonstrated experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, 1AM, CloudWatch, and other core services
• Demonstrated experience with containerization (such as Docker and Pod man)
• Strong scripting proficiency: Bash (required) and Python (required)
• Experience with database self-hosting including installation, configuration, backup/recovery, high availability, and performance tuning (PostgreSQL and MySQL)
• Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting systems such as Prometheus/Alertmanager and CloudWatch
• Demonstrated experience integrating and deploying diverse software systems: AWS cloud services, open-source applications, COTS/GOTS products, and custom applications
• Strong understanding of networking, security, 1AM policies, and AWS architecture best practices
• Experience with Git-based workflows, branching strategies, and version control best practices

Optional Skills

• Experience deploying and managing data platform components: Apache Spark, Tri no, Apache Ranger, Apache Iceberg, Apache Superset, data catalogs
• Familiarity with data lakehouse architectures and supporting infrastructure
• Experience with secrets management solutions (AWS Secrets Manager, Parameter Store)
• Knowledge of disaster recovery, backup strategies, and continuity planning
• Familiarity with API gateways and modern microservices patterns
• Experience with cost optimization practices in AWS
• Background deploying and supporting Al/ML workloads or model serving infrastructure
• Experience mentoring team members on DevOps and cloud best practices
• Experience with NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, MongoDB, etc.)
• Familiarity with additional monitoring tools (Grafana, ELK stack)
• Experience integrating customer's Enterprise services

Leading Path is an award-winning Information Technology and Management Consulting firm focused on providing solutions in process, technology, and operations to our government and Fortune 500 clients. We offer a professional and family friendly work environment with a strong work-life balance.

Leading Path provides a comprehensive and competitive benefits package including:

• fully paid medical/dental/vision premiums
• generous PTO
• 11 Paid Holidays
• 6% 401K contribution
• annual training and tuition reimbursement
• SPOT Award bonuses
• regular team events
• opportunities for professional growth and advancement
• and much more!