Job Requirements
Columbia, MD
Top Secret/SCI Full Scope Polygraph
Senior Level Career (10+ yrs experience)
$179,000 - $213,000
Job Description
Join a high-impact, mission-driven team as Lead DevOps Engineer, where you will help manage the stability, security, and scalability of systems powering complex data transformation workflows and a widely used web-based user interface. Embedded within a broader engineering organization in Columbia, MD, you will lead a small, agile DevOps/SysAdmin team responsible for end-to-end infrastructure, from bare-metal and AWS environments to Kubernetes deployments.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, mentor, and direct the daily tasks of two system administrators.
- Collaborate with and support the larger team of 25+ software engineers.
- Provide guidance, advice, and assistance for overall system design and setup in conjunction with software engineering teams.
- Maintain system platforms and health of all servers (EC2, MASH, bare metal), production systems, development environments.
- Facilitate migration of Apache Nifi installations and other services from MASH environment to AWS cloud-based architecture.
- Oversee system maintenance, security, and compliance with intelligence standards.
- Maintain observability of the system, including automation, monitoring, alerting, backup, and disaster recovery strategies for all development, staging, and production environments.
- Maintain deployment automation process (e.g., CI/CD in GitLab).
- Perform database administration with databases such as Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Redis, or graph databases.
- Ensure system documentation is up to date and conduct regular technical reviews and post-mortems to drive continuous improvement in team operations.
- Maintain base Linux kickstart images (RHEL9).
Required Skills:
- Strong Linux system administration experience (e.g., RHEL9).
- Experience in containerization using Podman and Kubernetes for deploying and managing applications.
- Amazon AWS experience (setting up EC2 instances, S3 buckets, VPCs, IAM).
- Proficient in system automation and scripting tools such as Ansible (including Semaphore), Terraform, Packer, Bash, and Python.
- Knowledge of security standards compliance and processes.
- Metrics and observability with Kibana, Grafana, and Prometheus.
Nice to Have:
- Apache Nifi dataflow experience.
- Familiarity with database administration with databases such as Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Redis, or graph databases (e.g., DGraph).
- Elastic stack experience (logstash, filebeat, etc.).
- Graph database experience.
- Experience with other AWS tools such as EKS, ECS, Lambdas, and Secrets Manager.
- CI/CD in GitLab.
- Advanced security operations experience.
- Facilitating low-to-high development.
- Cisco networking experience.
Experience Required: 12 years with Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline, or 16 years without degree
Location: Columbia, MD
Clearance: TS/SCI with Polygraph required
Salary Range: $179,000 - $213,000
group id: 91159412
