ME00661 - DevOps Engineer (ME00661) at Momentum Engineering, Inc.

About the role

What will you do at Momentum Engineering, Inc.?

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.

Which skills does this role require?

AWSInfrastructure as codePythonAnsibleTerraformKubernetesEKSECSDockerGitLab CI/CDArgo CDSystems analysisCloud cost optimizationMicroservicesNetworkingTechnical leadershipDevOpsDocker ComposeGitLabCI/CDVPCCloud cost analysisTop Secret/SCI clearanceNSA Full Scope PolygraphAutomationFargateLambdasS3SNSSQSAthenaEvent RouterStep Functions

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