Senior DevOps Engineer
REI Systems2 years ago
Sterling, VA, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, own, and improve CI/CD pipelines and software delivery platforms for enterprise-scale applications.
- Architect and implement scalable, secure, and highly available Infrastructure as Code solutions.
- Design, deploy, optimize, and support containerized applications and microservices using Kubernetes, Docker, AWS EKS, and/or OpenShift.
- Develop automation using Bash, Python, Groovy, or similar scripting languages.
- Lead application and microservice deployments across development, test, staging, and production environments.
- Troubleshoot application, configuration, deployment, networking, infrastructure, and production issues.
- Establish DevOps engineering standards, automation practices, and deployment best practices.
- Improve cloud scalability, resiliency, security, performance, observability, and operational efficiency.
- Ensure availability, reliability, scalability, and performance of 24x7 production and non-production environments.
- Lead production incident and outage response, root cause analysis, and corrective and preventative actions.
- Design and improve monitoring, alerting, logging, dashboards, metrics, and application performance monitoring.
- Track operational KPIs related to availability, uptime, SLA performance, incidents, capacity, and system health.
- Lead or oversee patching, security remediation, vulnerability management, and environment upgrades.
- Participate in an on-call rotation and provide senior-level technical support during incidents, deployments, outages, and service transitions.
- Mentor junior and mid-level DevOps engineers and contribute to technical standards and engineering best practices.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of relevant DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related experience.
- Advanced hands-on experience designing and maintaining enterprise CI/CD pipelines, preferably with Jenkins and Groovy.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, AWS EKS, and/or OpenShift.
- Advanced Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar platforms.
- Strong scripting and automation experience with Bash, Python, Groovy, or similar languages.
- Extensive hands-on experience with AWS services including VPC, EC2, EKS, RDS, IAM, and CloudWatch.
- Experience designing and supporting highly available, scalable, and secure AWS cloud environments.
- Strong experience with monitoring, logging, observability, and application performance platforms such as AWS CloudWatch, New Relic, and Splunk.
- Strong experience with source code and version control systems such as Git.
- Experience supporting and troubleshooting Java and/or Node.js web applications, including Spring Boot and React.
- Advanced troubleshooting skills across applications, cloud infrastructure, networking, containers, CI/CD pipelines, and production environments.
- Understanding of incident management, problem management, change management, SLAs, production support, and root cause analysis.
- Ability to independently solve complex technical problems and drive issues through resolution.
- Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to technical standards and engineering best practices.
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.
- U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring two days per week at the Sterling, Virginia headquarters.
- Professional development opportunities and meaningful projects.
- Flexibility to spend time with family and friends.
- Participation in an on-call rotation supporting 24x7 production operations.
- The role supports a federal project and requires U.S. citizenship and clearance eligibility.
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About REI Systems
REI Systems provides full-lifecycle software engineering, data analytics, and modernization services to U.S. federal, state, and local agencies and nonprofits, including grants and case management solutions and cloud implementations. The privately held, 100% employee-owned firm delivers consulting and systems integration and supports programs at agencies such as the FDA. Founded in 1989 and headquartered in Sterling, Virginia, it focuses on open source, SaaS, and application modernization.