Senior AWS DevOps Engineer – CI/CD, Docker & Puppet

Nightwing Intelligence Solutions, LLC; Sterling (VA); On-site; USD 77,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k

PTO

Health vision dental

Job summary

Nightwing is seeking a solid DevOps candidate to work as a software engineer focusing on infrastructure as code and AWS-centric deployments. The role requires extensive AWS capabilities, Jenkins pipeline creation with Groovy, and container tooling such as Docker and ECS/Docker Compose.

Strong OO programming experience and security clearance are essential. The team emphasizes collaboration, mentorship, and applying architectural best practices to deliver mission-critical capabilities for

Qualifications

• TS/SCI with Polygraph required Day 1.
• 5+ years of AWS experience including CloudFormation and AWS SDK usage.
• 5+ years OO programming (Ruby, Python, Java, or NodeJS).
• Experience with Jenkins pipelines and Groovy; shared libraries a plus.
• Familiarity with Puppet; Docker and container orchestration (ECS, Docker Compose).
• Team player with eagerness to learn and teach.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain IaC solutions across AWS environments.
• Collaborate with development teams to enable CI/CD best practices.
• Create and manage Jenkins pipelines and shared libraries.
• Support software deployments and container orchestration.

Skills

AWS (EC2)

CloudFormation

AWS SDK usage

Ruby

Python

NodeJS

Jenkins Pipelines (Groovy)

Groovy libraries

Docker

Docker Compose / ECS

GitHub

Bash scripting

Puppet

Education

5+ years OOP background

Tools

Jenkins

Puppet

Docker

Mesos/Marathon (familiarity)

AWS CDK

Job description

Nightwing is seeking a solid DevOps candidate to work as a software engineer focusing on infrastructure as code and AWS-centric deployments. The role requires extensive AWS capabilities, Jenkins pipeline creation with Groovy, and container tooling such as Docker and ECS/Docker Compose.

Strong OO programming experience and security clearance are essential. The team emphasizes collaboration, mentorship, and applying architectural best practices to deliver mission-critical capabilities for