TS/SCI Infra Engineer: Kubernetes, AWS & Kafka

GRVTY

Herndon (VA)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 250,000

Full time

6 days ago
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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.

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