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

Preferred Skills

• 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