Senior Systems Engineer: Remote DevSecOps (Kubernetes & Cloud)

Akima; Herndon (VA); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

401(k)

PTO

Job summary

Suvi Global Services, an Akima company, seeks a Sr. Systems Engineer to support federal contracts with security monitoring and audit duties. You will work with clients and technical teams on system engineering and development, including DevSecOps practices and cloud-native tooling.

The role is remote with about 25% on-site work near Herndon, VA, requiring an active Secret clearance and strong Linux/Kubernetes administration skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, 4+ years of military active duty, or 5+ years relevant experience in a technical or analytical field.
• Active Secret Clearance required with an eligibility to hold Top Secret.
• 5+ years Cloud and Kubernetes experience.
• Superb written and oral communication skills.
• Expert in DevSecOps methodologies and how to build and operate reliable systems.
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals in the cloud and datacenter.
• JavaScript/Typescript, Bash, and general programming experience.
• Knowledge of AWS including EKS, Advanced networking, Organizations, Control Tower, and associated services.
• AWS associate level certification, and Kubernetes developer (CKAD) or administrator (CKA).
• A deep understanding of HTTP performance and security.
• Expert of Linux and Kubernetes administration and services.
• Familiarity with the fundamentals of Agile project management.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot MySQL (MariaDB) and Postgresql databases deployed with services like AWS RDS and Aurora, or Kubernetes Cloud Native Postgres.
• Cloud platform agnostic with a focus on AWS and Azure.
• Ensure software updates are correctly deployed.
• Manage and use the Git version control system.
• Maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Troubleshoot source code, identify, and correct errors using systems debugging tools.
• Ensure all systems have broad useful instrumentation in place and develop monitoring systems that provide actionable alerts based on those metrics.
• Make use of DevOps tools, such as Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Jenkins, and Git to write tools that automate everything you are responsible for Build and maintain Kubernetes and cloud centric CI/CD pipeline the use of containers.
• Support full application lifecycle development by advising developers on how to provide stable and secure code.
• Understanding of security best practices and ability to implement NIST 800-53 in Cloud environments.
• Understanding of Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) is a plus.
• Familiar with traditional virtualization platforms.
• Integrate traditional deployments with serverless platforms such as the Microsoft Power Platform.

Skills

Cloud & Kubernetes

DevSecOps

AWS

Security best practices

JavaScript/Typescript

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

Jenkins

Git

Power Platform

Job description

Suvi Global Services, an Akima company, seeks a Sr. Systems Engineer to support federal contracts with security monitoring and audit duties. You will work with clients and technical teams on system engineering and development, including DevSecOps practices and cloud-native tooling.

The role is remote with about 25% on-site work near Herndon, VA, requiring an active Secret clearance and strong Linux/Kubernetes administration skills.