DevOps Engineer - 2 (AWS Infrastructure) at Cleared Staffing Solutions

About the role

What will you do at Cleared Staffing Solutions?

TS/SCI - Polygraph required

09-8763-DevOps

The Work:

Provide a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates the microservices of a modernized operational system utilizing cutting edge technologies. The DevOps 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 Python, Ansible, and Terraform.

Experience patching, hardening, and maintaining compliance of RHEL

Install, configure, and provide performance tuning utilizing: Kubernetes, Docker Compose, Nifi, and cloud native logging and metrics collection tools.

Managing 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.

The position allows little to no work from home and will require a significant portion or all work to be performed in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF).

Basic Qualifications :

Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education

9 years or more of professional experience; or 4 years of professional experience with a related Masters degree.

An active Top Secret clearance with polygraph.

Current Security+CE certificate.

Requirements

Desired skills (2 of the below):
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
Salary Range:
$175k-$210k (Annually)*

Which skills does this role require?

AWSTerraformKubernetesPythonAnsibleDocker ComposeGitLab CI/CDArgo CDRHELNifiEKSECSFargateSecurity+ CETS/SCI PolygraphInfrastructure As CodeGitLabEC2LambdasS3SNSSQSEvent RouterAthenaStep FunctionsVPCNATIP GatewayTS/SCIPolygraphSCIFDevOpsDocker

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