Devops Engineer 4 - (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform)

DevOps Engineer 4 - (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform)

Clearance: TS/SCI w/ poly

Location: Annapolis Junction, Maryland

The DevOps Engineer will provide a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates the microservices of a modernized operational system using cutting-edge cloud, containerization, automation, and CI/CD technologies.

This role is responsible for architecting, implementing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure, developing Infrastructure as Code, automating deployment processes, optimizing system performance, supporting sprint execution, and helping drive the technical direction of the infrastructure in alignment with program and product needs.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, build, and maintain infrastructure using AWS technologies and services.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation scripts, and tools using technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, and Python.
• Install, configure, maintain, and tune containerization platforms including Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, Docker, Docker Compose, and related services.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing, and deploying code using GitLab runners, GitLab CI/CD, and Argo CD.
• Perform high-level functional systems analysis, design, integration, documentation, cost analysis, implementation, and complex issue resolution.
• Evaluate cloud infrastructure costs, recommend cost-saving measures, reduce maintenance overhead, and optimize AWS service usage.
• Decompose sprint priorities into actionable tasks and generate tickets aligned with internal team priorities.
• Manage team tasking and sprint workloads to ensure coordinated execution and delivery.
• Track ticket execution while guiding the technical direction of infrastructure to support program and product objectives.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve application performance, reliability, and system uptime.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and resolve operational problems.
• Communicate effectively with team members, stakeholders, and technical leadership.

Position Desired Skills (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.

DEVOPS4 Qualifications:

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.

Current CWIP (DoD 8140) certificate.

**$212k-$259k (Annually)

**The range displayed above is a likely salary range for this position. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possible contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Akina is a Woman Owned, Service Disabled, Veteran Owned, Small Business, looking for talented and ambitious individuals to join our team. We offer a generous compensation package that includes 24 days PTO accrued annually and 11 federal holidays. Our 401k is 100% vested on your start date and the company makes a direct contribution worth 10% of your salary. Akina covers 100% of healthcare costs for employees and 50% toward dependents. We offer educational assistance towards college classes and will cover costs associated with job related training and certifications.

Akina is committed to excellence and creating innovative and flexible solutions for our clients. We are a small company with an open ear to our employees' needs in order to attract and retain quality talent that enables our customer's mission.

We are an equal employment opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.