Systems Engineer 3

Avid Technology Professionals; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Avid Technology Professionals is seeking a System Engineer to join a DevOps-focused team in Annapolis, MD. You will design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines to support multiple product teams.

The role emphasizes automation, scalability, and collaboration across stakeholders. Candidates should be comfortable with AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, and GitLab CI/CD, and familiar with Grafana/Prometheus and Elasticsearch for monitoring and logging.

Qualifications

• Experience developing and managing GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience designing and maintaining AWS infrastructure with Terraform.
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize performance and reliability.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and ensure uptime.
• Kubernetes experience focusing on EKS.
• Familiarity with Elasticsearch, Prometheus/Grafana, PGAdmin, etc.

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 (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.

Skills

GitLab CI/CD pipelines

IaC & scripting

Team collaboration

Performance optimization

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Argo CD

GitLab Runners

Kubernetes

AWS (EC2, Lambda, EKS, RDS, S3, EFS, EBS)

Elasticsearch

Grafana/Prometheus

Longhorn/GP3/EBS storage

Job description

Skills

Part of a team that designs, implements, and maintains DevOps resources for multiple product teams and enables teams to automate build and deployment where possible. The ideal candidate is a self-starter who has a deep understanding of the needed technologies and the initiative to learn new skills. The System Engineer will be responsible for:

• Developing Infrastructure As Code and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools. Popular programming languages for DevOps engineers include Terraform, Ansible, and Python.
• 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.

Desired Skills

• 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, PrometheGrafana, PGAdmin, etc. that can be installed in Kubernetes via helm chart.
• Familiarity with various Kubernetes storage class types such as GP3. Longhorn, EBS, etc.