DevOps Engineer 1 - (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform)

Akina, Inc. • $163K — $199K *
Annapolis Junction, MD 20701In-Person
Aerospace & Defense
11 - 15 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related discipline or equivalent experience.
  • 12+ years of professional experience or 10+ years with a related Master's degree.
  • TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required.
  • Extensive knowledge of AWS technologies and services for infrastructure architecture.
  • Strong background in containerization technologies, particularly Kubernetes and Docker.
  • Experience in CI/CD pipeline management with GitLab runners and Argo CD.
  • Proven ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Provide a reliable and highly available platform for orchestrating microservices.
  • Develop Infrastructure as Code and automate task provisioning.
  • Install, configure, and tune container technologies.
  • Conduct functional systems analysis and complex issue resolutions.
  • Evaluate costs and recommend savings in AWS services.
  • Manage team tasking, ensuring sprint workload execution.
  • Oversee CI/CD pipelines for automated building and deployment.

Benefits

  • 24 days of PTO accrued annually plus 11 federal holidays.
  • 100% vested 401k on start date and direct contribution of 10% salary.
  • 100% company coverage of employee healthcare costs.
  • 50% company coverage for dependent healthcare costs.
  • Educational assistance for college courses and job-related training.
Full Job Description
DevOps Engineer 1 - (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform)

Clearance: TS/SCI - Polygraph required
Position ID: 09-8872-DEVOPS1
Location: Annapolis Junction, Maryland

Description:

Provide a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates the microservices of a modernized operational system using cutting-edge technologies.

Responsible for architecting infrastructure, developing Infrastructure as Code and scripting, managing containerization technologies, performing systems analysis and integration, managing CI/CD pipelines, and driving technical direction of the infrastructure.
  • Provide a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates the microservices of a modernized operational system utilizing cutting edge technologies.
  • Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Track ticket execution while driving technical direction of the infrastructure to align with the program and product needs.
  • Manage CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing, and deploying code utilizing GitLab runners and Argo CD.

Position Required Skills:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Able to communicate and collaborate effectively with other team members, as well as with stakeholders.

Position Desired Skills:
  • 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.

DEVOPS1 Qualifications:

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.

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).

Salary Range: **$163k-$199k (Annually)

**The range displayed above is a likely salary range for this position. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possible contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Akina is a Woman Owned, Service Disabled, Veteran Owned, Small Business, looking for talented and ambitious individuals to join our team. We offer a generous compensation package that includes 24 days PTO accrued annually and 11 federal holidays. Our 401k is 100% vested on your start date and the company makes a direct contribution worth 10% of your salary. Akina covers 100% of healthcare costs for employees and 50% toward dependents. We offer educational assistance towards college classes and will cover costs associated with job related training and certifications.

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