DevOps Engineer III

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Virginia.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with various teams to streamline and enhance DevOps tools and services.

• Address challenges to promote simplicity in architecture and operations.

• Execute cloud infrastructure and automated deployment tasks under the guidance of senior engineers.

• Develop libraries, modules, and packages tailored for infrastructure engineers.

• Create cloud infrastructure to support applications.

• Enhance the developer experience for engineering teams.

• Assist with CI/CD processes to expedite the delivery of high-quality software.

• Integrate tools to meet quality benchmarks, address security vulnerabilities, and perform static analysis.

• Construct application testing and deployment pipelines utilizing Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, GitLab CI, and similar tools.

• Collaborate with government partners and application teams to fulfill security, SLA, and performance standards.

• Engage in planning discussions and participate in DevOps support/on-call rotations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and over 5 years of professional software engineering experience, or a comparable blend of education and experience.

• Practical production experience with AWS as the main cloud provider.

• Proficient in Kubernetes, including EKS or equivalents, for deploying, troubleshooting, and managing containerized workloads.

• Skilled in Terraform or a similar infrastructure-as-code tool.

• Experience in constructing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or analogous systems.

• Comfortable working within a Linux environment, including shell scripting, systemd, networking fundamentals, and package management.

• Knowledgeable in containerization, virtualization, networking, and load balancing/reverse proxy techniques.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Capable of collaborating with fellow engineers to troubleshoot issues.

• Able to articulate technical decisions and trade-offs regarding complex infrastructure.

• Contribute significantly to planning discussions.

• Willingness to participate in business-hours DevOps support rotation and take on on-call responsibilities beyond business hours.

• U.S. citizenship or valid legal authorization to work and reside in the United States without employer sponsorship.

• Capable of successfully completing and maintaining any required government background investigation.

• Preferred: experience with Terragrunt, Argo CD/Argo Workflows, HAProxy/OpenResty or similar tools, Go/Bash/Python, GitHub Actions reusable workflows/composite actions/self-hosted runners, SAST/DAST and dependency scanning, federal IT compliance frameworks, internal developer platforms, and observability stacks.

🏝️ Benefits

• Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO).

• 401K plan with employer matching.

• Paid parental leave available after one year of service.

• Employee Assistance Program.