Senior DevOps Engineer
The Swift Group6 months ago
Herndon, VA, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Deploy and maintain AWS infrastructure for multiple development teams.
- Automate complete infrastructure deployments using AWS CloudFormation and Ansible.
- Manage infrastructure scripts and templates in GitHub with git version control.
- Manage EC2, Elastic Load Balancers, auto-scaling groups, S3 files and permissions, and CloudWatch alarms, dashboards, and alerts.
- Build and maintain Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
- Monitor servers and infrastructure for issues and troubleshoot Linux systems.
- Assist security teams with implementing security controls and ensuring compliance.
Requirements
- 7+ years of relevant DevOps experience.
- Experience managing Elastic Load Balancers and auto-scaling groups with AWS EC2.
- Experience with AWS CloudWatch alarms, dashboards, and alerts.
- Experience managing files and permissions in AWS S3.
- Experience building Infrastructure as Code with AWS CloudFormation and YAML templates.
- Strong Linux troubleshooting skills and Bash scripting experience.
- Experience setting up, building, and maintaining Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience using Ansible for server automation and GitHub with git for Infrastructure as Code version control.
- 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 experience with API Gateway, AWS Lambda, SQS, SNS, Kubernetes infrastructure, and AWS certification.
Benefits
- Onsite position in Herndon, VA.
- A $5,000 employee referral bonus is paid when a referred candidate is hired, at the new hire’s 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).