Senior DevOps Engineer / Team Lead

About the role

An active or rein-statable TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance is REQUIRED. Please do not apply if you currently do not possess this level of clearance. Are you a Senior DevOps Engineer / Team Lead who is ready for a new challenge that will launch your career to the next level?

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• Long term job security GliaCell is seeking a **Senior DevOps Engineer / Team Lead **on one of our subcontracts. This is a full-time position offering the opportunity to support a U.S. Government customer. The mission is to provide technical expertise that assists in sustaining critical mission-related software and systems to a large government contract.

the work:

• Provide a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates the microservices of a modernized operational system utilizing cutting edge technologies. The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for:

Responsibilities

• Extensive experience architecting infrastructure leveraging AWS technologies and services
• Developing Infrastructure As Code (IaC) and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools. Popular programming languages for DevOps engineers include Python, Ansible, and Terraform.
• Strong background in containerization technologies: install, configure, and provide performance tuning utilizing Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, Docker, Docker Compose, etc.
• Perform high-level functional systems analysis, design, integration, documentation, cost analysis, implementation, and complex issue resolutions.
• Cloud infrastructure cost savings: iteratively evaluate costs, recommend cost savings measures, reduce maintenance, and reduce AWS services costs.
• Sprint priority decomposition and ticket generation to align with internal team priorities.
• Manage team tasking and sprint workloads, keeping the team on task and executing in an orchestrated manner.
• Tracking ticket execution while driving technical direction of the infrastructure to align with the program and product needs.
• Managing CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing, and deploying code utilizing GitLab runners and Argo CD.
• Communication and collaboration: Able to communicate and collaborate effectively with other team members, as well as with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• ** Possess an active or rein-statable TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance. ** 

• An active Top Secret clearance with polygraph (CI must be within the last 7 years).

• U.S. Citizenship.

• Professional/Education experience: 12 years & Bachelors of Science Degree, or 10 years & Masters Degree, or 14 years & Associates Degree, or 16 years & High School Diploma

• Current Security+CE certificate.

• Current CWIP (DoD 8140) certificate

• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure including but not limited to EC2, Lambdas, S3, SNS, SQS, Event Router, Athena, Step Functions using Terraform and auto scaling.

• Understanding of AWS networking principles to include VPCs, NATs, 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 Location: Annapolis Junction, MD ( The position allows little to no work from home and will require a significant portion or all work to be performed in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF)). Salary Range: The salary range for this full-time position is $200,000 to $280,000. Our salary ranges are determined by position, level, skills, professional experience, relevant education and certifications. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for this position across our projects. Within the range, your salary is determined by your individual benefits package selection. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred position during the hiring process. SIGN-ON BONUS ELIGIBLE.

Compensation

Posted Annualized Salary: $200,000 – $280,000

Benefits

• Employee Assistance Program
• Travel Protection Program
• Technology Budget
• Global Entry