DevOps Engineer V

Reflexive Concepts is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer V to join our team! 

The Work:

• Provide a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates the microservices of a modernized operational system utilizing cutting-edge technologies
• Extensive experience architecting infrastructure leveraging AWS technologies and services
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools using Python, Ansible, and Terraform
• Strong background in containerization technologies: install, configure, and provide performance tuning utilizing Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, Docker, Docker Compose, etc.
• Perform high-level functional systems analysis, design, integration, documentation, cost analysis, implementation, and complex issue resolution
• Iteratively evaluate cloud infrastructure costs, recommend cost-saving measures, reduce maintenance, and reduce AWS service costs
• Decompose sprint priorities and generate tickets to align with internal team priorities
• Manage team tasking and sprint workloads, keeping the team on task and executing in an orchestrated manner
• Track ticket execution while driving the technical direction of the infrastructure to align with program and product needs
• Manage CI/CD pipelines that build, test, and deploy code using GitLab runners and Argo CD
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with team members and stakeholders

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education
  • 12 years or more of professional experience; or 10 years of professional experience with a related Master's degree
• Active TS/SCI with CI polygraph within the last 7 years
• Little to no work from home; a significant portion of, or all, work is performed on site
• Able to support an on-call rotation

Desired (at least 2 of the following):

• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure (EC2, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, Event Router, Athena, Step Functions) using Terraform and auto scaling
• AWS networking principles, including VPCs, NAT gateways, and internet gateways
• Develop and manage GitLab CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance and reliability
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and ensure system uptime
• Kubernetes experience with a focus on EKS, ECS, and/or Fargate