Systems Engineer - Expert (DevOps Focus)

About Evans & Chambers

Evans & Chambers partners with the US national defense community to create fully integrated, resilient, and innovative digital solutions that enable them to make smart decisions in real‑time. We work with our customers on everything from conquering their data to improving and safeguarding IT infrastructure. Our ultimate goal? To enhance our nation's ability to identify, address, and act - no matter what challenges arise.

About the Role

EC is seeking an Expert Systems Engineer (DevOps) to support a large‑scale technical development program delivering modern ICAM solutions. This role spans architecture, engineering, automation, and operational sustainment in a 24/7/365 environment. Participation in an on‑call rotation (approximately one week every two months) is required.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead complex cloud‑native solution development
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Automate infrastructure and deployment functions
• Establish and improve CI/CD pipelines
• Support containerization and orchestration initiatives
• Administer AWS services (CloudFormation, EC2, S3, RDS, VPC)
• Perform Linux system administration and privileged access duties
• Collaborate in Agile/Scrum environments

Required Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
• BA/BS and 11-15 years of experience
• Expert Linux proficiency
• Expertise with Jenkins, GitHub, Rundeck, Nexus
• AWS scripting and CLI experience
• Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS/ECS)
• CI/CD pipeline implementation
• JIRA and Confluence experience

Desired Qualifications

• Elastic stack experience
• AWS Certification
• CKAD or container-related certifications