ME00661 - DevOps Engineer (ME00661)

Momentum Engineering, Inc; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

11 paid holidays

3 weeks PTO

Company sponsored group medical plan

Company paid dental

Vision

Life insurance

STD/LTD plans

Job summary

Momentum Engineering, Inc. seeks a senior DevOps/Cloud Architect to design and manage a highly available platform orchestrating microservices for national security initiatives.

You will lead AWS infrastructure, IaC automation, and container orchestration while driving cost optimization, CI/CD pipelines, and cross-functional collaboration with stakeholders. A Top Secret/SCI clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education/experience.
• 12+ years of professional experience, or 10+ years with a related Masters.

Responsibilities

• Architect and manage cloud infrastructure using AWS and IaC.
• Develop and maintain IaC, automation scripts, and tooling.
• Design, deploy, and optimize containers with Kubernetes, EKS/ECS/Fargate.
• Lead CI/CD pipelines, including GitLab runners and Argo CD.
• Analyze costs, implement savings, and reduce AWS spend.
• Plan sprints, track tasks, and align work with program priorities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and ensure system reliability and performance.

Skills

Security clearance

AWS architecture

DevOps automation

CI/CD management

Team coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

12+ years professional experience or 10+ with Masters

Tools

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

Argo CD

Kubernetes (EKS/ECS/Fargate)

Docker

Job description

Momentum Engineering, Inc. fosters an employee-centric culture. Our strength lies in our people. With a high percentage of employees holding advanced degrees in engineering, computer science, and related disciplines, we bring deep technical expertise to every mission. Our team includes professionals with security clearances and full-scope polygraphs, ensuring trusted, secure support for the most sensitive national security initiatives. Additionally, our workforce is equipped with industry-leading certifications, demonstrating a commitment to continuous learning and excellence. Most importantly, our exceptional employee retention rate reflects a culture of professional growth, mission focus, and dedication—ensuring long‑term stability and expertise for our customers’ critical needs.

Job Summary

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

Primary Responsibilities

• 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.

Required Qualifications

• Must have active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph
• 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.

Desired Qualifications (must meet 2)

• 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

Benefits and Compensation

• Exempt hourly position.
• 11 paid holidays
• minimum of 3 weeks PTO
• company sponsored group medical plan
• company paid dental
• vision
• life insurance
• and STD/LTD plans.
• Salary is dependent upon the candidate’s experience and qualifications.