Senior DevOps & SRE Engineer – Hybrid / AWS

Communications Training Analysis Corporation; Falls Church (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Communications Training Analysis Corporation (CTAC) is seeking DevOps Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers to support government contracts by ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information systems. The intent is to treat operations issues as software issues, focusing on automations and runbooks where needed.

This role operates within a cross-functional team supporting applications spanning on-premises, cloud, and platform-as-a-service offerings, with emphasis on AWS

Qualifications

• 10+ years of development and operations experience, preferably for government systems.
• Strong experience in at least one programming language, with scripting, interpreted, or compiled languages.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Experience with tools for vulnerability scanning, monitoring, and incident response.
• Ability to document technical processes and architectures clearly.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• Experience managing Linux and Windows servers in a hybrid environment.

Responsibilities

• Support operations and maintenance of applications on-premises and in the cloud.
• Develop automated tooling and scripts to reduce manual effort in support of applications.
• Contribute back to project software to improve processes, reduce technical debt, and/or increase visibility and monitoring.
• Assist in debugging of applications, databases, and middleware across technologies, utilizing AI agents and code tooling to assist.
• Configure monitoring, alerting, and notification tooling supporting cloud and on-premises applications.
• Develop cloud-first applications, infrastructure as code, and tooling to improve business processes and/or reduce operations and maintenance efforts.
• Support and maintain Identity Management Systems at federal client (Okta-based)

Skills

DevOps experience

Programming languages

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Documentation skills

Hybrid environment management

Linux/Windows server admin

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS or related field

Tools

Vulnerability scanning tools

Monitoring tools

Incident response tools

Job description

Communications Training Analysis Corporation (CTAC) is seeking DevOps Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers to support government contracts by ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information systems. The intent is to treat operations issues as software issues, focusing on automations and runbooks where needed.

This role operates within a cross-functional team supporting applications spanning on-premises, cloud, and platform-as-a-service offerings, with emphasis on AWS