Senior Systems Engineer (TS/SCI) - DevOps & Cloud Automation

Onyx Point, Inc.; Hanover (MD); On-site; USD 78,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Technology allowance

Bonus opportunities

Job summary

Onyx Point, Inc. is seeking a System Engineer to design, implement, and maintain DevOps resources across product teams. You will drive automation using infrastructure as code, build and tune pipelines, and enable rapid deployment in cloud environments.

The ideal candidate has deep expertise with Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, and Python, plus experience managing GitLab CI/CD pipelines and Argo CD. Strong collaboration and problem-solving skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Twenty (20) years experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
• Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

Responsibilities

• Developing Infrastructure As Code and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools.
• Install, configure, and provide performance tuning utilizing Kubernetes and cloud native logging and metrics collection tools (i.e. Elasticsearch, Grafana/Prometheus).
• Managing Gitlab CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing, and deploying code utilizing GitLab runners and Argo CD.
• Managing commercial cloud computing platforms (AWS).
• Communication and collaboration: DevOps is a team-oriented discipline. Engineers need to be able to communicate and collaborate effectively with other team members, as well as with stakeholders.
• Develop and manage Gitlab CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment processes
• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure including but not limited to EC2, Lambdas, EKS, RDS, S3, EFS, EBS, using Terraform and auto scaling.
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance and reliability.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and ensure system uptime.
• Kubernetes experience with a focus on EKS.
• Familiarity with FOSS tools such as Elasticsearch, Prometheus/Grafana, PGAdmin, etc. that can be installed in Kubernetes via helm chart.
• Familiarity with various Kubernetes storage class types such as GP3. Longhorn, EBS, etc.

Skills

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Kubernetes

AWS

GitLab CI/CD

Argo CD

Elasticsearch

Grafana/Prometheus

PGAdmin

Helm

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering or related field

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

GitLab CI/CD

Argo CD

Elasticsearch

Grafana/Prometheus

PGAdmin

Helm

Job description

Onyx Point, Inc. is seeking a System Engineer to design, implement, and maintain DevOps resources across product teams. You will drive automation using infrastructure as code, build and tune pipelines, and enable rapid deployment in cloud environments.

The ideal candidate has deep expertise with Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, and Python, plus experience managing GitLab CI/CD pipelines and Argo CD. Strong collaboration and problem-solving skills are essential.