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.www.akina-inc.com/careers
