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Momentum Engineering, Inc.

ME00661 - DevOps Engineer (ME00661)

Momentum Engineering, Inc. · Annapolis Junction, Maryland, United States · $184K–$196K/yr

Software Development · 11-50 employees

3 h ago
Principal (10+ yrs) Full-time United States
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About the role

The DevOps Engineer will architect and maintain highly available AWS infrastructure while automating deployment processes using Infrastructure as Code. They will also manage team sprint workloads and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure system performance and cost efficiency.

What they look for

AWS Infrastructure as code Python Ansible Terraform Kubernetes EKS ECS Docker GitLab CI/CD Argo CD Systems analysis Cloud cost optimization Microservices Networking Technical leadership

Requirements

Candidates must possess an active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph and at least 10-12 years of professional experience. A bachelor's degree in a related discipline or equivalent experience is required.

Benefits

11 Paid holidays 3 Weeks PTO Company sponsored group medical plan Company paid dental Vision insurance Life insurance Short term disability plan Long term disability plan

Full description

Job Summary

  • Provide a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates the microservices of a modernized operational system utilizing cutting edge technologies.

Primary Responsibilities

  • Extensive experience architecting infrastructure leveraging AWS technologies and services
  • Developing Infrastructure As Code (IaC) and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools. Popular programming languages for DevOps engineers include Python, Ansible, and Terraform.
  • Strong background in containerization technologies: install, configure, and provide performance tuning utilizing Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, Docker, Docker Compose, etc.
  • Perform high-level functional systems analysis, design, integration, documentation, cost analysis, implementation, and complex issue resolutions.
  • Cloud infrastructure cost savings: iteratively evaluate costs, recommend cost savings measures, reduce maintenance, and reduce AWS services costs.
  • Sprint priority decomposition and ticket generation to align with internal team priorities.
  • Manage team tasking and sprint workloads, keeping the team on task and executing in an orchestrated manner.
  • Tracking ticket execution while driving technical direction of the infrastructure to align with the program and product needs.
  • Managing CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing, and deploying code utilizing GitLab runners and Argo CD.
  • Communication and collaboration: Able to communicate and collaborate effectively with other team members, as well as with stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

  • Must have active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph
  • Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education
  • 12 years or more of professional experience; or 10 years of professional experience with a related Masters degree.

Desired Qualifications (must meet 2)

  • Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure including but not limited to EC2, Lambdas, S3, SNS, SQS, Event Router, Athena, Step Functions using Terraform and auto scaling.
  • Understanding of AWS networking principles to include VPCs, NATs, IP Gateway.
  • Develop and manage Gitlab CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment processes
  • Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance and reliability.
  • Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and ensure system uptime
  • Kubernetes experience with a focus on EKS, ECS, and/or Fargate

Exempt hourly position. 11 paid holidays, minimum of 3 weeks PTO, company sponsored group medical plan, company paid dental, vision, life insurance, and STD/LTD plans. Salary is dependent upon the candidate’s experience and qualifications.