DevOps Engineer V

Reflexive Concepts; Maryland; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Reflexive Concepts is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer IV to join our team. The candidate will lead devops initiatives to build a reliable, scalable platform orchestrating microservices using modern technologies. Expertise in AWS, IaC, Kubernetes, and CI/CD is essential.

The role requires strong collaboration with development teams, the ability to optimize performance and reduce costs, and experience guiding sprint planning and tasking across a team.

Qualifications

• 12 years experience as a DevOps Engineer in programs and contracts of similar scope
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university
• Four (4) years of additional Engineer experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree
• Current CWIP (DoD 8140) certificate

Responsibilities

• Lead DevOps efforts to ensure reliable, highly available platform
• Manage CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing, and deploying code using GitLab runners and Argo CD
• Sprint priority decomposition and ticket generation to align with internal team priorities
• Track ticket execution while driving technical direction of the infrastructure
• Manage team tasking and sprint workloads to keep the team on task
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance and reliability
• Perform cost analysis and implement cost-saving measures for AWS infrastructure

Skills

AWS infrastructure

IaC (Terraform, Ansible, Python)

Kubernetes (EKS/ECS)

CI/CD pipelines

GitLab & Argo CD

Cost optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS/related

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitLab

Argo CD

Docker

Job description

Reflexive Concepts is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer IV to join our team!
Specifically, we are seeking a DevOps Development Lead on a team working to provide a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates the microservices of a modernized operational system utilizing cutting edge technologies.

• 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. Popular programming languages for DevOps engineers include Python, Ansible, and Terraform.
• 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.

Requirements

• Twelve (12) years experience as a DevOps Engineer in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
  • Four (4) years of additional Engineer experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
• Current CWIP (DoD 8140) certificate

Desired

• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure including but not limited to EC2, Lambdas, S3, SNS, SQS, Event Router, Athena, Step Functions using Terraform and auto scaling.
• 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