ME00605-DevOps Engineer at Momentum Engineering, Inc.

About the role

What will you do at Momentum Engineering, Inc.?

Job Summary

Seeking a DevOps Engineer to support 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

Bachelor's 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 Master's degree

Current CWIP (DoD 8140) certificate

Desired Qualifications (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

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.

Which skills does this role require?

AWSInfrastructure As CodeTerraformKubernetesDockerPythonAnsibleGitLab CI/CDArgo CDEKSECSVPCSystems AnalysisCost OptimizationSprint ManagementContainerizationDevOpsGitLabCI/CDTop Secret/SCINSA Full Scope PolygraphCWIPDoD 8140MicroservicesS3LambdaSNSSQSAthenaStep FunctionsFargateSprint PriorityCost AnalysisCloud Infrastructure

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