DevOps Engineer
The Swift Groupover 1 year ago
Columbia, MD, USAMid Level / Senior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain AWS cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure, especially Amazon EKS environments.
- Deploy and manage containerized applications with Kubernetes across development and production environments.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and application deployment using Terraform, Ansible, and related tools.
- Administer and troubleshoot Linux-based systems for availability and performance.
- Integrate and improve CI/CD pipelines using Git, Flux, Jenkins, and related deployment tools.
- Support portable edge-computing infrastructure in on-premise environments.
- Diagnose issues involving networking, containers, cloud services, and the broader systems stack.
- Improve reliability, repeatability, performance, and operational processes while participating in Agile activities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Mid-level candidates require 3–8 years of relevant experience; senior candidates require 9–13 years; SME candidates require 14 or more years.
- Hands-on experience with AWS services including EKS, EC2, EBS, S3, and Lambda.
- Proficiency in Linux systems administration and troubleshooting.
- Scripting or programming ability in Python, Bash, or Go.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Git, Flux, and related infrastructure or deployment tools.
- Familiarity with JIRA, Confluence, Agile environments, and development and deployment processes.
- Must obtain Security+ certification within 60 days of hire.
- Must be a U.S. citizen with an active Secret clearance; TS/SCI or TS/SCI with CI Polygraph is also accepted.
- Desired experience includes Hadoop, Accumulo, Ceph, Spark, NiFi, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Hive, Drill, Impala, Trino, or Presto.
Benefits
- The role is on-site four to five days per week in Columbia, Maryland; Augusta, Georgia; or San Antonio, Texas, with flexibility required to meet customer needs.
- Some on-call work may be required.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache HadoopApache HiveApache KafkaApache SparkAWSBashDockerElasticsearchGitGoJenkinsKubernetesLinuxPostgreSQLPrestoPythonTerraform
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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).