DevOps Engineer
The Swift Group12 months ago
Reston, VA, USAMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Analyze requirements and deliver scalable, secure, high-performing cloud architectures.
- Design, deploy, and optimize AWS and hybrid-cloud solutions supporting mission and security objectives.
- Develop Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
- Implement cloud governance frameworks and maintain compliance with security and regulatory standards.
- Automate deployment, monitoring, and operations workflows to reduce manual effort and improve reliability.
- Evaluate cloud technologies and recommend performance and cost-efficiency improvements.
- Integrate CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools, and performance tuning across development and operations teams.
- Provide cloud expertise, mentorship, and collaboration across engineering teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 4–7 years of relevant experience for mid-level candidates or 7–9 years for senior-level candidates.
- US citizenship and an active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph.
- Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining advanced cloud solutions, particularly in AWS environments across multiple classification domains.
- Proficiency with AWS services including EC2, S3, Lambda, and EBS.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
- Experience managing and securing Linux and Windows Server systems in production.
- Hands-on Python and Bash scripting experience for cloud automation.
- Knowledge of cloud security best practices and advanced security controls.
- Experience supporting operational environments, ticket queues, and knowledge bases.
- Active CompTIA Security+ or equivalent 8140/8570 certification valid for at least one year.
- Relevant AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect Associate or Professional or SysOps Administrator are preferred.
- Experience with Agile environments, Jira, Confluence, CI/CD frameworks, version control systems, Git, Jenkins, hybrid-cloud or multi-cloud environments, automation, monitoring, and performance tuning is desired.
Benefits
- Onsite position in Reston, Virginia.
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).