DevOps Engineer 4 or 5 - (AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes)Clearance: TS/SCI - Polygraph required within 7 years
Position ID: 09-8872-AD4orAD4/5orAD5
Location: Annapolis Junction, Maryland
Description:Provide a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates the microservices of a modernized operational system utilizing cutting edge technologies.
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.
- Communication and collaboration: 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.
AD-4 Qualifications:12 years or more of professional experience; or 10 years of professional experience with a related Masters degree.
Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education.
An Associate's degree plus 14 years of relevant experience or high school diploma/GED plus 16 years of experience may be considered for individuals with in-depth experience that is clearly related to the position.
AD-5 Qualifications:15 years or more of professional experience; or 13 years of professional experience with a related Masters degree.
Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education.
An Associate's degree plus 17 years of relevant experience or high school diploma/GED plus 19 years of experience may be considered for individuals with in-depth experience that is clearly related to the position.
Salary Range: $217k-$285k (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
