DevOps Engineer
The Swift Groupover 1 year ago
San Antonio, TX, USAMid Level / Senior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain AWS cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure, focusing on Amazon EKS.
- Deploy and manage containerized applications with Kubernetes across development and production environments.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and application deployment using Terraform, Ansible, and related tools.
- Monitor and troubleshoot Linux-based systems, networking, containers, and cloud services for availability and performance.
- Integrate CI/CD pipelines and improve release cycles using Git, Flux, and Jenkins.
- Support portable edge-computing infrastructure in on-premise environments.
- Improve reliability, repeatability, performance, and deployment processes while participating in Agile development activities.
- Provide possible on-call support and stay current with DevOps, container orchestration, and cloud technologies.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Mid-level candidates require 3–8 years of relevant experience; senior-level candidates require 9–13 years; SME-level 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.
- Proficiency in Python, Bash, or Go scripting and programming.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Ansible.
- Familiarity with Git, Flux, JIRA, Confluence, and other development and deployment tools.
- Ability to work in Agile environments.
- Must obtain Security+ certification within 60 days of hire.
- Must be available to work on-site 4–5 days per week with flexibility for customer needs.
- Must be a US 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
- On-site work in Columbia, Maryland; Augusta, Georgia; or San Antonio, Texas, typically 4–5 days per week.
- Potential on-call work may be required.
- Opportunity to support mission-critical cloud, hybrid, and edge-computing systems for Civilian, Defense, and Intelligence Community customers.
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).