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DevOps Engineer/Systems Engineer (Mission Systems)

Node.DigitalMcLean, Virginia🇺🇸United States

Why this role stands out

This DevOps Engineer role offers a significant opportunity to build and automate complex cloud infrastructures for mission-critical systems, fostering substantial career growth. You'll thrive here if you have a strong background in CI/CD, IaC with Terraform, and AWS, and are eager to contribute to a specialized engineering team. Apply now to make a tangible impact in a dynamic technology environment.

Quick overview

SeniorityMid Senior
Employment typeFull Time
Work modeOn Site
LocationMcLean, Virginia, United States
DockerDynamoDBMongoDBMySQLAPI GatewayAWSELKApacheApache SparkBashGitGrafanaJenkinsPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonTerraformCI/CDIAM

Job description

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.

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.

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

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