Senior DevOps Engineer

ECS is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to work in our Redstone Arsenal, AL office.  Please Note: This position is contingent upon contract award.

 

ECS is seeking a highly experienced and skilled DevOps Engineer with a Top Secret clearance to serve on a mission-critical program for the Department of Justice. In this senior role you will be responsible for providing expert-level technical guidance and support to our team, leveraging your deep knowledge of DevOps practices, cloud computing, and security engineering to ensure the success of our projects.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a senior team member for DevOps practices, cloud computing, and security engineering, providing expert-level technical guidance and support to the team.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive knowledge of DevOps tools, technologies, and best practices, including automation frameworks, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, and containerization.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable and secure cloud-based infrastructure, leveraging AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Develop and maintain comprehensive knowledge of security concepts, including firewalls, encryption, identity management, and hardening, and ensure that all systems and applications meet or exceed security requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless system integration and maintenance, including development, quality assurance, and operations teams.
• Provide expert-level technical guidance and support to the team, including troubleshooting, debugging, and resolving complex technical issues.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation, including technical guides, best practices, and knowledge bases.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret clearance required, with the ability to obtain SCI and/or CI Polygraph if needed
• Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of relevant experience (required)
• Demonstrated working knowledge in multiple areas, including:
  • Security Engineering
  • IT systems engineering
  • UI/UX
  • Front-end engineering
  • API development
  • Data engineering
• AWS/Cloud experience, including design, implementation, and maintenance of scalable and secure cloud-based infrastructure
• Full lifecycle engineering project experience
• 5+ years of experience with deploying and maintaining IT development and automation tools (Ansible, Puppet, Nexus, Jenkins, GitLab, etc.)
• 5+ years of experience with system administrative scripting (bash, Python, etc.)
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience with administration of LDAP
• Experience with building custom solutions within a micro-service driven IT infrastructure