Security Clearance with Polygraph is required
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:
- 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.
Basic Qualifications :
- 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.
- An active Top Secret clearance with polygraph (CI must be within the last 7 years). 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).
***Able to support an on-call rotation
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
Benefits
At Ctrl+, we give you the power to customize your benefits. Choose from health, dental, and vision coverage, plus a Dependent Care FSA to set aside tax-free dollars for child or adult care.
What we provide:
- Flexible healthcare options (CareFirst medical, dental & vision)
- Dependent Care FSA (up to $5,000 household / $2,500 individual)
- Tech reimbursement - up to $1,500 every other year
- 100% Employer-paid Life, AD&D, Short- & Long-Term Disability Insurance
- 100% Employer-paid 10% 401(k) contribution (vested immediately)
- Sign-on & retention bonuses
- Flexible PTO (carry over up to 300 hours + payout for excess)
- Paid hours for company events & training
- Referral bonus: $1.50/hr extra for successful hires you refer
