DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

D.C. Area We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our growing team. The candidate will work with a tight, highly skilled engineering team in planning, design and operation of new and existing platforms in concert with development and technology goals and requirements. Key Responsibilities

Contribute to our overall architecture and infrastructure, especially as it relates to availability, scalability, security, performance, etc.

Help improve, implement, and maintain our CI/CD setup

Participate in building and enforcing best practice disciplines for SDLC

Provide support and problem resolution impacting our SDLC

Build and maintain infrastructure in AWS utilizing infrastructure-as-code

Develop scripts and monitoring tools around containing and reducing costs within AWS

Liaise with members of the Engineering team to build awareness on best practices and effective usage of our development tools portfolio

Foster the DevOps disciplines -- reduce friction and time to deliver new code to production

Qualifications & Experience Requirements

Scripting/Coding experience – Python and Bash, or equivalent (Ruby, Java, etc.)

Infrastructure-as-code experience – Terraform, CloudFormation

Hands-on experience with AWS – ECS/Fargate, IAM, EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, Auto-Scaling, CloudWatch, SSM, Lambda, Route53, etc.

Experience supporting and administering Linux systems

Experience around managing containers and Docker

Experience with source control, CI and build tools – Git (Github/Gitlab), TeamCity/Jenkins, CodeDeploy/CodePipeline, etc.

Experience working/collaborating with software engineering in an Agile environment

Nice to Have Qualifications

Experience managing Java Spring Boot microservices

Experience administering and managing monitoring tools - Splunk, Grafana, Nagios, etc.

Experience administering and managing streaming data services – Kafka, Kinesis

Experience with configuration management tools – Chef, Puppet, Salt

Experience with data engineering tools – EMR, DataPipeline, Airflow

Experience building Step Functions

Experience with Github Actions

AWS Associate SysOps Administration or Developer Certification

The Successful Candidate will be…

An engineer who loves to solve problems.

Excited about new technologies - you seek them out, you yearn to know more.

Passionate about quality – measure twice cut once

Understand that there are always improvements to be made

Asking questions

Taking initiative, unprompted, to become the subject matter expert in various technologies.

Not shy towards processes or technologies you aren't comfortable with.

Wearing multiple hats and have a can-do attitude towards DevOps.

Able to handle multiple projects simultaneously, meet deadlines, and effectively manage priorities and communicate progress.