Mission Systems DevOps Engineer - AWS, Terraform, CI/CD

Node.Digital; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Basic Life

Health Saving Account

401K matching

Three weeks PTO/Sick

11 Paid Holidays

Pre-Approved Online Training

Job summary

Node.Digital is seeking a DevOps Engineer/Systems Engineer to design, implement, and maintain enterprise-grade mission systems, networks, and applications in McLean, VA. The role focuses on DevOps excellence, high availability, and cloud automation across AWS environments.

The ideal candidate will have TS/SCI FS poly clearance and hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, Terraform provisioning, AWS services, scripting, containerization, and observability tools.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building and managing robust CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins).
• Strong proficiency in Terraform for provisioning AWS environments.
• Hands-on AWS experience with EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch.
• Advanced scripting in Bash and Python for automation and integration.
• Experience managing containerized workloads with Docker or Podman.
• Experience self-hosting, tuning, and securing PostgreSQL and MySQL with HA and recovery.
• Hands-on monitoring/alerting with Prometheus/Alertmanager and CloudWatch.
• Ability to deploy/integrate diverse ecosystems including COTS/GOTS and open-source tools.
• Strong networking, IAM hardening, and AWS Well-Architected practices.
• Git-based workflows, branching strategies, and repository management.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise-grade mission systems and networks.
• Drive DevOps excellence with a focus on high availability and automation of cloud infrastructures.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure secure, scalable, and reliable systems.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Bash

Python

AWS security & networking

PostgreSQL & MySQL administration

Prometheus/Alertmanager

Git workflows

COTS/GOTS integration

CloudWatch

Tools

Jenkins

Terraform

Docker

Podman

Grafana

ELK Stack

Job description

Node.Digital is seeking a DevOps Engineer/Systems Engineer to design, implement, and maintain enterprise-grade mission systems, networks, and applications in McLean, VA. The role focuses on DevOps excellence, high availability, and cloud automation across AWS environments.

The ideal candidate will have TS/SCI FS poly clearance and hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, Terraform provisioning, AWS services, scripting, containerization, and observability tools.