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Cleared Lead DevOps Engineer

TS/SCI w/ PolyAnnapolis Junction, MD· Onsite· full-time· $195k – $240k

Experience required

  • Bachelor's: 12+ years
  • Master's: 10+ years

About the role

Cleared Lead DevOps Engineer Bestgate Engineering is seeking a cleared Lead DevOps Engineer to support the development and sustainment of a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates microservices within a modernized operational system using cutting edge technologies. This role is ideal for a DevOps professional with strong cloud infrastructure, automation, containerization, and CI/CD experience supporting mission critical environments. This position will also provide technical leadership across infrastructure priorities, sprint execution, and DevOps team coordination.

why bestgate?

Bestgate Engineering isn’t just any tech company, we’re on the front lines, delivering cutting-edge solutions that support mission-critical work for government customers and the military. Whether it’s cloud-native technologies, software modernization, embedded engineering, high-performance computing, or data science, we’re making an impact where it matters most. At Bestgate, we believe in putting people first both our employees and our customers. That’s why our core values of employee focus, transparency, reliability, and excellence drive everything we do!

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education.

  • 12+ years of professional experience; or 10+ years with a related Master’s degree.

  • Extensive experience architecting infrastructure leveraging AWS technologies and services.

  • Experience developing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation scripting using technologies such as Python, Ansible, and Terraform.

  • Strong background in containerization technologies including Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, Docker, and Docker Compose.

  • Experience performing high level functional systems analysis, integration, implementation, and complex issue resolution.

  • Experience evaluating and optimizing cloud infrastructure costs and AWS service utilization.

  • Experience managing sprint priorities, ticket decomposition, and team tasking in Agile environments.

  • Experience tracking ticket execution and driving technical direction aligned to program and product needs.

  • Experience managing CI/CD pipelines utilizing GitLab runners and Argo CD.

  • Strong communication and collaboration skills within a team oriented environment.

  • Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure including EC2, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, Event Router, Athena, and Step Functions using Terraform and auto scaling.

  • Understanding of AWS networking principles including VPCs, NATs, and IP Gateway.

  • Develop and manage GitLab CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment processes.

  • Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance and reliability.

  • Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and ensure system uptime.

  • Kubernetes experience with a focus on EKS, ECS, and/or Fargate. Salary Range: $195,000 - $240,000

Compensation

Posted Annualized Salary: $195,000 – $240,000