DevOps Engineer 4

Job description

***At Wyetech, you’ll be at the center of an award-winning corporate culture, breaking technological barriers and solving real-world problems for our federal government customers. We are committed to hiring the best of the best, and in return, we offer a world-class, truly unique employee experience that is rare within our industry.*** Analyze, design, verify, validate, implement, apply, and maintain software systems. Appropriately apply discrete mathematics, probability and statistics, and other relevant topics in computer science and supporting disciplines to complex software systems. Generalize techniques, as appropriate, to apply to multiple domains. Develop and provide appropriate documentation and training. Present briefings and demonstrations to stakeholders Provide a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates the microservices of a modernized operational system utilizing cutting edge technologies. \*\*\*This position is eligible for a $5k bonus! (Includes 20% SEP IRA contribution)\*\*\* ***Due to federal contract requirements, United States Citizenship and position appropriate security clearance is required. (e.g. Active TS/SCI security clearance with agency appropriate polygraph).*** ### Capabilties - Extensive experience architecting infrastructure leveraging AWS technologies and services - Developing Infrastructure As Code (IaC) and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools. Popular programming languages for DevOps engineers include 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 resolutions. - Cloud infrastructure cost savings: iteratively evaluate costs, recommend cost savings measures, reduce maintenance, and reduce AWS services costs. - Sprint priority decomposition and ticket generation to align with internal team priorities. - Manage team tasking and sprint workloads, keeping the team on task and executing in an orchestrated manner. - Tracking ticket execution while driving technical direction of the infrastructure to align with the program and product needs. - Managing CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing, and deploying code utilizing GitLab runners and Argo CD. - Communication and collaboration: Able to communicate and collaborate effectively with other team members, as well as with stakeholders. ### Required Qualifications - TS/SCI with agency appropriate poly - Bachelors 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 Masters degree. - The position allows little to no work from home and will require a significant portion or all work to be performed in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility - Current CWIP (DoD 8140) certificate. ### Desired Technical Skills (Must Have 2 of the Below) - Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure including but not limited to EC2, Lambdas, S3, SNS, SQS, Event Router, Athena, Step Functions using Terraform and auto scaling. - Understanding of AWS networking principles to include VPCs, NATs, IP Gateway. - Develop and manage Gitlab CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment processes - 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 ### The Benefits Package - ***Wyetech believes in generously supporting employees as they prepare for retirement. The company automatically contributes 20% of each employee's gross compensation to a Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) IRA, with no requirement for employee matching. All contributions are fully vested from day one, ensuring immediate ownership of retirement funds.*** ***Additional benefits include:*** - ***Wyetech provides a generous PTO plan of up to 200 hours annually, aligned with applicable state leave regulations. Employees have the flexibility to adjust their PTO allocation at the start of each calendar year, ensuring it meets their evolving needs.*** ***Full-time employees have the option to participate in a variety of voluntary benefit plans including:*** - ***A Choice of Medical Plan Options, some with Health Savings Account (HSA)*** - ***Vision and Dental*** - ***Life and AD&D Benefits*** - ***Short and Long-Term Disability*** - ***Hospital Indemnity, Accident, and Critical Illness Insurances*** - ***Optional Identity Theft and Legal Protection Services*** ### Company Environment & Perks - ***Employee Referral Bonus Eligibility up to $10,000*** - ***Mobility Among Wyetech-supported Contracts*** - ***Various contract and work locations throughout Maryland, Virginia, Colorado, Texas, Utah, Alaska, Hawaii and OCONUS*** - ***Various team-building events throughout the year such as: monthly lunches, summer company picnic, and an annual holiday party.*** - ***Employees receive two complementary branded clothing orders annually.***