Senior Cloud Operations Engineer (TS/SCI) | AWS & DevOps

NorthHill Technology Resources LLC; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

NorthHill Technology Resources is seeking a Cloud Operations Engineer to support a Federal Program in Springfield, VA. An active TS/SCI Clearance is required, with sponsorship for CI Polygraph within the first year.

You will automate deployments, optimize performance, and integrate with authentication services within an agile environment. The role emphasizes system monitoring, security compliance, and mentoring junior developers while supporting a full-stack application in a PaaS environment

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a technical discipline.

Responsibilities

• Maintain security requirements for operation of systems with A&A Team.
• Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (autoscaling, new services, cost optimization, authentication, search).
• Produce detailed documentation for systems and processes.
• Maintain AWS infrastructure using EC2, S3, Load Balancer, RDS.
• Automate and optimize service deployments.
• Deliver full-stack web applications to production; identify and resolve operational issues.
• Participate in technical requirements gathering with customers.
• Design/implement application features with minimal oversight.
• Refactor legacy code for reliability and maintainability.
• Mentor junior developers; write/read unit tests; perform code-quality analysis.
• Develop applications backed by relational databases; understand RDB concepts.

Skills

AWS

Troubleshooting

Scripting

Agile/Scrum

CI/CD

TypeScript/JavaScript

Angular

Microservices

REST APIs

Docker

Kubernetes

GitLab/Jenkins

Postgres

Go/Python/Java

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

8+ years IT experience

DoD 8570 IAT Level II requirements (Security+ CE, CND, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, CySA+, CCNA)

Tools

GitLab

Jenkins

Nexus

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

NorthHill Technology Resources is seeking a Cloud Operations Engineer to support a Federal Program in Springfield, VA. An active TS/SCI Clearance is required, with sponsorship for CI Polygraph within the first year.

You will automate deployments, optimize performance, and integrate with authentication services within an agile environment. The role emphasizes system monitoring, security compliance, and mentoring junior developers while supporting a full-stack application in a PaaS environment