TS/SCI Infra Engineer: Kubernetes, AWS & Kafka

GRVTY; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plan

Health Savings Account

Paid time off

401k with match

Training and development opportunities

Company sponsored events

Job summary

GRVTY is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer in Herndon, VA, to design and maintain scalable, high-volume data alerting systems. You will manage containerized workloads with Kubernetes (EKS) and optimize AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3) using Terraform for IaC, while ensuring robust routing and DNS for high availability.

Ideal candidates bring TS/SCI with Polygraph, Kafka experience, and a DevOps mindset to drive secure, observable CI/CD pipelines and proactive incident response.

Qualifications

• Clearance TS/SCI with Polygraph is required.
• Experience with Kafka or similar messaging platforms is required.
• DevOps experience across cloud-native environments is essential.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services (EKS, EC2, S3) is expected.

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain scalable, resilient systems for high-volume data alerts.
• Orchestrate containerized workloads using Kubernetes (EKS) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement infrastructure as code with Terraform to automate provisioning.
• Design robust routing and DNS to ensure high availability across distributed systems.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve security, monitoring, and observability (Grafana).
• Troubleshoot complex issues and optimize cloud security and automation.

Skills

DevOps

Active TS/SCI with Polygraph Clearance

Tools

Kafka

EKS

AWS

EC2

S3

Terraform

Routing

DNS

Grafana

Alerting

Job description

GRVTY is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer in Herndon, VA, to design and maintain scalable, high-volume data alerting systems. You will manage containerized workloads with Kubernetes (EKS) and optimize AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3) using Terraform for IaC, while ensuring robust routing and DNS for high availability.

Ideal candidates bring TS/SCI with Polygraph, Kafka experience, and a DevOps mindset to drive secure, observable CI/CD pipelines and proactive incident response.