DevOps Engineer/Systems Engineer (Mission Systems)

DevOps Engineer/Systems Engineer (Mission Systems)

Location: McLean, VA
Clearance: Must have an active TS/SCI FS Poly

Role Overview

Join a specialized engineering team dedicated to designing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise‑grade mission systems, networks, and applications. You will play a critical role in driving DevOps excellence, ensuring high availability, and automating complex cloud infrastructures.

Requirements

Mandatory Skills

• CI/CD & Automation: Proven experience building and managing robust pipelines with Jenkins (required).
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Strong proficiency in Terraform (required) for provisioning scalable AWS environments.
• AWS Expertise: Deep hands‑on experience with core services, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, and CloudWatch.
• Scripting: Advanced proficiency in Bash and Python (both required) for automation and systems integration.
• Containerization: Experience managing containerized workloads using Docker or Podman.
• Database Administration: Experience self‑hosting, tuning, and securing PostgreSQL and MySQL, including high‑availability and recovery strategies.
• Observability: Hands‑on experience with monitoring and alerting stacks, specifically Prometheus/Alertmanager and CloudWatch.
• Systems Integration: Proven ability to deploy and integrate diverse ecosystems, including COTS/GOTS, open‑source tools, and custom applications.
• Architecture & Security: Strong grasp of networking fundamentals, IAM policy hardening, and AWS Well‑Architected best practices.
• Version Control: Expert knowledge of Git‑based workflows, branching strategies, and repository management.

Preferred Skills

• Data Operations: Experience managing Lakehouse architectures and data platform components (e.g., Apache Spark, Trino, Apache Ranger, Apache Iceberg, Apache Superset, data catalogs).
• Security & Governance: Familiarity with AWS Secrets Manager/Parameter Store and modern API gateway patterns.
• Resiliency & Planning: Knowledge of enterprise Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Planning (BCP).
• Advanced Workloads: Background in supporting AI/ML model‑serving infrastructure or NoSQL environments (DynamoDB, MongoDB).
• Efficiency: Experience with AWS cost optimization and right‑sizing strategies.
• Full‑Stack Monitoring: Familiarity with the ELK Stack and Grafana for advanced visualization.
• Leadership: Experience mentoring junior team members and championing DevOps/Cloud‑native best practices.

Benefits

We are proud to offer competitive compensation and benefits packages to include:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Basic Life
• Health Saving Account
• 401K matching
• Three weeks of PTO/Sick
• 11 Paid Holidays
• Pre‑Approved Online Training