Job Location: Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD (Onsite)
Security Clearance: Active Secret Clearance required (Interim OK)
Citizenship: US Citizenship required
Responsibilities:- Support the design and implementation of AWS-based solutions aligned with customer and project needs.
- You will have significant ownership over DevSecOps strategy, tooling, automation, and cloud deployment approaches
- Provide hands-on technical contributions while also mentoring and guiding solution development.
- Collaborate with customer and internal teams to validate release readiness, ensuring regression, performance, and security testing gates are met.
- Create and maintain release documentation, including schedules, rollback plans, and release notes.
- Identify and implement improvements that enhance release efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
- Troubleshoot and resolve build, pipeline, and deployment issues efficiently.
- Monitor release metrics to ensure compliance with SLAs and organizational standards.
- Develop Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Pulumi or Terraform to deploy solutions to cloud environments.
- Work closely with the customer and internal teams to understand existing solutions, champion updates, and guide architectural evolution.
- Research, propose, and validate solutions tailored to customer needs.
- Clearly communicate status, challenges, and recommendations, owning all DevSecOps deliverables for the project
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
- Experience working within AWS environments.
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, release engineering, build engineering, or a similar discipline.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
- Strong knowledge of Git, including branching strategies and tagging workflows.
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Groovy.
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and agile methodologies.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills.
Qualities of Exceptional Candidates:- Experience integrating automated security scans and documentation into CI/CD pipelines or IT workflows.
- Experience with SageMaker.
- Knowledge of Linux operating systems.
- Experience working within DoD or government environments.
- Familiarity with DISA STIGs and automated compliance scanning.
- MLOps experience
BenefitsWe offer a competitive benefits package, covering the cost of medical for you and your family; we also offer dental, vision, health and wellness benefits and a generous retirement savings plan. We believe that our employees can manage their workload and their personal life, therefore we extend a generous PTO policy. This allows our employees to balance their lives as they see fit.
Salary RangeThe proposed salary range is reflective across all Sherpa 6 locations, years of experience, and skill levels. Salary negotiations will be based on a host of factors including but not limited to your geographic location, prior experience, relevant skills, education, and certifications.
Salary Description
$105,000 - $160,000
