About the role

What will you do at Node.Digital LLC?

DevOps Engineer/Systems Engineer (Mission Systems) Location: McLean, VA Must have an active TS/SCI FS Poly Role Overview: Join a specialized engineering team dedicated to designing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise-grade mission systems, networks, and applications. You will play a critical role in driving DevOps excellence, ensuring high availability, and automating complex cloud infrastructures.

Mandatory Skills CI/CD & Automation: Proven experience building and managing robust pipelines with Jenkins (required). Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Strong proficiency in Terraform (required) for provisioning scalable AWS environments. AWS Expertise: Deep hands-on experience with core services, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, and CloudWatch.

Scripting: Advanced proficiency in Bash and Python (both required) for automation and systems integration. Containerization: Experience managing containerized workloads using Docker or Podman. Database Administration: Experience self-hosting, tuning, and securing PostgreSQL and MySQL, including high-availability and recovery strategies.

Observability: Hands-on experience with monitoring and alerting stacks, specifically Prometheus/Alertmanager and CloudWatch. Systems Integration: Proven ability to deploy and integrate diverse ecosystems, including COTS/GOTS, open-source tools, and custom applications. Architecture & Security: Strong grasp of networking fundamentals, IAM policy hardening, and AWS Well-Architected best practices.

Version Control: Expert knowledge of Git-based workflows, branching strategies, and repository management. Preferred Skills Data Operations: Experience managing Lakehouse architectures and data platform components (e.g.,Apache Spark, Tri no, Apache Ranger, Apache Iceberg, Apache Superset, data catalogs). Security & Governance: Familiarity with AWS Secrets Manager/Parameter Store and modern API gateway patterns.

Resiliency & Planning: Knowledge of enterprise Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Planning (BCP). Advanced Workloads: Background in supporting AI/ML model-serving infrastructure or NoSQL environments (DynamoDB, MongoDB). Efficiency: Experience with AWS cost optimization and right-sizing strategies.

Full-Stack Monitoring: Familiarity with the ELK Stack and Grafana for advanced visualization. Leadership: Experience mentoring junior team members and championing DevOps/Cloud-native best practices. We are proud to offer competitive compensation and benefits packages to include Medical Dental Vision Basic Life Health Saving Account 401K matching Three weeks of PTO/Sick 11 Paid Holidays Pre-Approved Online Training

Which skills does this role require?

JenkinsTerraformBashPythonDockerPodmanPostgreSQLMySQLPrometheusAlertmanagerCloudWatchGitNetworkingIAMCI/CDSystems EngineeringMission SystemsEC2S3RDSLambdaVPCCOTSGOTSInfrastructure as CodeAutomationTS/SCI FS PolyMachine Learning

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