DevOps Engineer/Systems Engineer (Mission Systems)

DevOps Engineer/Systems Engineer (Mission Systems) Location: McLean, VA 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.

• Data Operations:?Experience managing Lakehouse architectures and data platform components (e.g.,Apache Spark, Tri no, 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