DevOps Engineer
The Swift Group12 months ago
Herndon, VA, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Deploy and maintain AWS infrastructure for multiple development teams.
- Automate infrastructure deployment using CloudFormation YAML templates and Ansible.
- Manage infrastructure scripts and templates in GitHub using Git for version control.
- Build and maintain Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
- Monitor servers and infrastructure, including alarms, dashboards, and alerts.
- Manage AWS EC2, Elastic Load Balancers, auto-scaling groups, and S3 files and permissions.
- Assist security teams with implementing controls for compliance.
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant DevOps experience.
- Experience with AWS Elastic Load Balancers, auto-scaling groups, EC2, CloudWatch, S3, and CloudFormation.
- Experience with Bash scripting, Linux troubleshooting, Ansible, Jenkins, Git, GitHub, and infrastructure as code.
- Bachelor’s degree or 5+ years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
- US citizenship and an active TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance.
- Desired qualifications include API Gateway, Lambda, SQS, SNS, Kubernetes, experience supporting multiple teams, and AWS certification.
Benefits
- Onsite role in Herndon, Virginia.
- A $5,000 referral bonus is paid when a referred candidate is hired and reaches the 90-day mark.
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About The Swift Group
The Swift Group is a privately held IT services and solutions firm headquartered in Reston, Virginia, founded in 2019. It delivers software development, systems engineering, data science, cyber enablement, logistics, and training to U.S. civilian, defense, and intelligence community clients, largely via federal contracts. Engagements often involve global operations and secure environments, and many positions require U.S. citizenship and high-level clearances (e.g., TS/SCI with polygraph).