
DevOps Engineer
SES Corporation
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Hanscom Air Force Base • Massachusetts • United States
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About the role
- This role supports the U.S. Air Force Cloud One Architecture and Common Shared Services contract and currently has an opening for a DevOps Engineer.
- **Responsibilities:**
- - As a DevOps Engineer, you will develop scalable cloud-native solutions, and implement best practices across architecture, development, deployment, and security and you will work within a group of DevOps/SRE engineers. This role is essential to ensuring secure, scalable, and resilient connectivity across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. You’ll work closely with cloud engineers, cybersecurity analysts, and program leadership to drive continuous improvement and deliver value to the mission. **
- - Work with a group of 5-15 DevOps and SRE engineers to fulfill the requirements for the program
- - Implement using software engineering principles to build and maintain scalable, highly reliable, and performant large-scale systems
- - Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for secure, automated software delivery.
- - Design and implement highly available, fault-tolerant systems for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- - Help define, implement and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs to ensure service reliability and performance
- - Implement robust monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, and CloudWatch
- - Support incident response and postmortem processes to drive continuous improvement
- - Collaborate with development teams to embed reliability into application design and deployment
- - support capacity planning including forecasting resource needs to ensure systems can scale effectively.
- - Ensure compliance with security best practices, including IAM, VPC design, and encryption standards
- - Implement DevSecOps pipelines for a variety of technical stacks on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
- - Develop infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
- - Deploy and manage applications on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
- - Configure and optimize container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker).
- - Maintain high availability, scalability, and performance of cloud-based systems.
- - Configure and maintain virtualized environments to ensure performance, scalability, and security
- - Support infrastructure modernization efforts by integrating virtualization solutions into hybrid cloud environments.
- - Implement automated security tools for vulnerability scanning, static/dynamic application security testing (SAST/DAST), and container security.
- - Drive consistency for deployment and build processes
- - Help establish proactive monitoring solutions to ensure system reliability and availability.
- - Respond to and troubleshoot production incidents, performing root cause analysis and resolution.
- - Embed security best practices into the SDLC and CI/CD processes.
- - Supports the development of strategy and integration methodology around design, development and implementation of cloud-based solutions
- - Enable the quick development and release of changes and bug-fixes on an as-required basis and incorporate feedback from developers/users.
- - Prepare detailed technical documentation to support development and operational processes
Requirements
- - Bachelor’s Degree and 4+ years or more of experience; additional years of experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.
- - Must have an active Secret clearance.
- - Certifications: CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (IAT-2)
- - Ability to work in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment
- - Strong documentation, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- - Familiarity with DevSecOps principles and practices.
- - Familiarity with Agile methodologies such as Scrum and/or Kanban.
- - Strong knowledge of security principles, including threat modeling, vulnerability assessments, and encryption techniques.
- - Deep understanding of CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Argo CD).
Benefits
- **SES provides a competitive salary and the following benefits:**
- - Medical
- - Dental
- - Vision
- - AD&D
- - STD
- - LTD
- - Company paid Life Insurance
- - 401k with employer contribution
- - Paid Time Off
- - Pet Insurance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
DevOpsSREcloud-native solutionsCI/CD pipelinesinfrastructure as codemonitoringloggingcontainer orchestrationsecurity best practicesvulnerability scanning
Soft Skills
communicationcross-functional collaborationdocumentationproblem-solvingroot cause analysiscontinuous improvementcapacity planningfast-paced environmentteam collaborationfeedback incorporation
Certifications
Bachelor’s DegreeSecret clearanceCompTIA Security+