ME00661 - DevOps Engineer (ME00661)

Momentum Engineering, Inc.

$184K — $196K *
Aerospace & Defense
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph
  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience
  • 12+ years of professional experience; or 10+ years with a related Master's degree
  • Strong understanding of AWS infrastructure and services
  • Expertise in containerization technologies, particularly Kubernetes

Responsibilities

  • Architect AWS infrastructure and services for operational efficiency
  • Automate tasks through Infrastructure As Code (IaC) and scripting
  • Install, configure, and fine-tune performance of containerization platforms
  • Conduct high-level systems analysis, design, and integration
  • Evaluate cloud infrastructure costs to recommend savings
  • Manage team tasks and sprint workloads effectively
  • Drive technical direction of infrastructure aligned with program needs

Benefits

  • 11 paid holidays
  • Minimum of 3 weeks PTO
  • Company-sponsored group medical plan
  • Company-paid dental, vision, and life insurance
  • STD and LTD plans
Full Job Description
Job Summary

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

Primary Responsibilities

  • 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.

Required Qualifications

  • Must have active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph
  • 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.

Desired Qualifications (must meet 2)

  • 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

Exempt hourly position. 11 paid holidays, minimum of 3 weeks PTO, company sponsored group medical plan, company paid dental, vision, life insurance, and STD/LTD plans. Salary is dependent upon the candidate's experience and qualifications.

The pay range for this role is:

184,000 - 196,000 USD per year (NBP)

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