Senior DevOps Engineer – AWS, Kubernetes & Terraform

QTS Realty Trust; Ashburn (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Tuition assistance

Job summary

QTS Realty Trust in Ashburn, VA seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to own deployment and maintenance of the Services Delivery Platform and OS applications. You will optimize microservices pipelines, manage AWS ECS/EKS, and implement Terraform-based IaC while maintaining robust monitoring with CloudWatch and New Relic.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in DevOps, strong Linux, Docker, Kubernetes skills, and proven ability to troubleshoot across DEV/UAT/PROD environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of DevOps experience focused on microservices deployment and maintenance.
• Extensive AWS experience.
• Experience with Linux, Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes, Ansible.
• Terraform and GitHub Actions experience.
• Experience with Postgres, Cassandra, scripting languages (bash, Groovy, Python), nginx, Tomcat, AWS CodeArtifact, LDAP, Kafka.
• Excellent technical, diagnostic, troubleshooting, and documentation skills.
• US Citizenship required due to federal contracts.

Responsibilities

• Manage AWS ECS and EKS.
• Create infrastructure/pipelines for new services (SpringBoot, Python, Angular).
• Deploy services on DEV/UAT/PROD environments.
• Create and deploy Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform.
• Manage installation and configuration of solutions.
• Troubleshoot failure cases on Development/UAT and Production environments.
• Monitor platform health and metrics using CloudWatch and New Relic.
• Document utilized approach and solution.
• Participate in discussions about solutions to support developer applications and needs.
• Participate in release management process.
• Deploy code and troubleshoot any issue that arises.

Skills

Technical troubleshooting

Documentation

Interpersonal skills

Independent work

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent professional experience

Tools

AWS

Linux

Docker

Swarm

Kubernetes

Ansible

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Postgres

Cassandra

nginx

Tomcat

AWS CodeArtifact

LDAP

Kafka

Job description

QTS Realty Trust in Ashburn, VA seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to own deployment and maintenance of the Services Delivery Platform and OS applications. You will optimize microservices pipelines, manage AWS ECS/EKS, and implement Terraform-based IaC while maintaining robust monitoring with CloudWatch and New Relic.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in DevOps, strong Linux, Docker, Kubernetes skills, and proven ability to troubleshoot across DEV/UAT/PROD environments.