Senior AWS & CI/CD DevOps Engineer

Nightwing; Sterling, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 77,000 - 163,000; Full time

Job summary

Nightwing is seeking a solid DevOps candidate in Sterling, VA. The role requires extensive AWS experience (EC2, S3, RDS), CloudFormation, and AWS SDK usage across Ruby, Python, or NodeJS. You will work with Jenkins pipelines, Groovy, and possibly shared libraries, plus Puppet for software installation and Docker containerization.

The team collaborates across cyber, data operations, and software modernization missions. TS/SCI with polygraph is required Day 1.

Qualifications

• TS/SCI with Polygraph Required Day 1.
• 5+ years of AWS experience including CloudFormation and AWS SDKs (Ruby, Python, Java).
• 5+ years of Object Oriented Programming: Ruby, Python, Java, or NodeJS.
• Experience with Jenkins Pipelines and CI/CD best practices.
• 1–2 years of Docker experience and container orchestration (Docker Compose, ECS).
• AWS CDK experience is a plus.
• 5 years of Bash scripting experience.
• 2+ years with GitHub and branching strategies.
• Team player and collaborative.

Skills

AWS

CloudFormation

OOP languages (Ruby/Python/NodeJS)

AWS SDK

Jenkins Pipelines (Groovy)

Docker

Docker Compose / ECS

Puppet

GitHub

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Bash scripting

Tools

Jenkins

Groovy

Puppet

Docker

Docker Compose

AWS CDK

GitHub

CloudFormation

ECS

Mesos/Marathon

Job description

Nightwing is seeking a solid DevOps candidate in Sterling, VA. The role requires extensive AWS experience (EC2, S3, RDS), CloudFormation, and AWS SDK usage across Ruby, Python, or NodeJS. You will work with Jenkins pipelines, Groovy, and possibly shared libraries, plus Puppet for software installation and Docker containerization.

The team collaborates across cyber, data operations, and software modernization missions. TS/SCI with polygraph is required Day 1.