DevOps Engineer Codescratch, a leading software services company that specializes in developing innovative solutions, driving improvements, and optimizing operations for a diverse clientele in both the public and private sectors, is seeking a self-motivated and talented professional for a challenging opportunity as a DevOps Engineer. This role will lead the DevOps effort across a team of software engineers, and cyber security SMEs to design, implement, support, and maintain solutions. The successful candidate will contribute to deploying and maintaining infrastructure supporting the development and integration of a distributed endpoint collection tool enabling critical situational awareness. What You Will Do: Facilitating the development and deployment of infrastructure within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for implementing infrastructure, automating deployment processes, and ensuring the reliability and scalability of our services. The DevOps Engineer will play a key role in monitoring system performance, identifying bottlenecks, and implementing proactive measures to prevent service disruptions. Administering and upholding cloud infrastructure on AWS. Building and maintaining Infrastructure as Code to deploy services in AWS VPC cloud environment to include kubernetes using Terraform, and Ansible. Automating deployment procedures to ensure the robustness and scalability of services. Design, develop, document, test, and deploy software in Python, JavaScript, Java and SQL. Deploy, configure, test, troubleshoot, maintain, update/upgrade PostgreSQL databases. Troubleshoot and resolve installation, infrastructure and system issues. Proactively and independently identify, report, monitor, and mitigate technical risks. Basic Qualifications: Five (5)+ years of experience in DevOps Engineering or Software Development Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Assurance, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. One year of relevant experience may be substituted for each year of required education. Relevant certifications may be substituted for education or years of experience. Knowledge of AWS services, application to deployment and management of infrastructure. Must have, or obtain Security+ certification or equivalent DoD 8570 IAT II certification within 30 days of start date. Experience with CI/CD pipelines in a containerized (Kubernetes) environment. Experience enforcing project DevOps processes to ensure consistency of deployments. Full software lifecycle automation experience (design, development, test, deployment), including deployment to a production environment. Strategic mindset who can further develop and refine our advanced DevOps architecture and processes. Strong communication skills that enable proactive and effective collaboration with a virtual team, including the ability to clearly articulate status and present to both customers and program leadership. Preferred qualifications/skills: Experience with RMF (Risk Management framework) is a plus. Experience with sustainment and management of program. CompTIA Security+ certification. Experience with Cyber and/or Security Engineering a plus. Tools/Systems: Cloud Native, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Helm, Terraform, 0, Ansible, Vault, Postgres, Golang, Python. Clearance: U.S. citizenship required. Active TS/SCI with a Polygraph is required. Location: Must commute into one of the following on a hybrid schedule; Fort Belvoir, VA Fort Gordon, GA Columbia, MD. Salary Range: Pay Range $150,000 - $230,000 (Plus benefits). The pay range for this job level is a general estimated guideline only, and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.