AWS DevOps Engineer

6 days ago

Reston, VA, United States Technology Ventures Full time

fAbout the Company

The Data Engineering and Advanced Analytics Enablement team is seeking an experienced AWS DevOps Engineer to lead the enablement of analytics tools on a cloud-native architecture.

About the Role

This role will design, build, and maintain infrastructure that supports next-generation analytics platforms, leveraging best practices in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), high availability, fault tolerance, and operational excellence for COTS deployments in AWS. Expertise in Amazon EKS, CI/CD automation, and scripting is essential.

Responsibilities

  • Drive technical requirements gathering and solution design sessions with engineers, architects, and product managers in an Agile environment.
  • Design, build, and deploy infrastructure for analytics COTS tools (e.g., Posit/RStudio, Anaconda Distribution) on AWS.
  • Develop and automate scripts for deploying and configuring software components, from large-scale COTS products to custom microservices.
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code using AWS services and tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, CodePipeline, Lambda (R/Python), CloudWatch, Route53, S3, and more.
  • Architect and manage Amazon EKS clusters for containerized workloads, ensuring scalability and security.
  • Continuously improve infrastructure provisioning automation, CI/CD pipelines, and operational excellence in the cloud.
  • Monitor and optimize system performance in AWS for reliability, cost efficiency, and resilience.
  • Conduct peer reviews and enhance existing infrastructure for scalability and fault tolerance.
  • Participate in on-call rotations for critical outages and incidents.
  • Maintain comprehensive technical documentation, including system diagrams and operational procedures.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of IT experience, including software development and DevOps functions.
  • 5+ years of experience building and maintaining CI/CD tooling (GitLab Pipelines, Jenkins Pipelines, Bitbucket, GitHub) and creating/extending CI/CD environments via Terraform and CloudFormation.
  • 3+ years of production experience with core AWS services (EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, API Gateway, ALB, ELB, Lambda, etc.).
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience with Amazon EKS and container orchestration.
  • 3+ years of Unix/Linux system administration experience.
  • Proficiency in Python (preferred) and R.
  • Strong automation scripting skills in Bash, Shell, Python, and familiarity with Java, JavaScript, Ansible, Perl.
  • Experience supporting web technologies and websites running Apache or NGINX.
  • Familiarity with open-source web service environments (Java, REST, SOAP).
  • Working experience with Confluence, Jira SaaS, SharePoint, others.

Required Skills

  • Deep understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
  • Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication abilities.
  • Effective teamwork, planning, and coordination skills.
  • Self-motivated, adaptable, and capable of meeting aggressive deadlines.
  • Ability to independently research and resolve technical challenges in complex IT environments.

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