DevOps Engineer

• Work on our Cloud Automation Advancements Team
• Implement the next generation desktop and web-based production and dissemination system
• Lead systems administration and DevOps activities
• Support building and delivering new and innovative systems
• Implement analytics, exploitation, production and dissemination using web, remote desktop, and cloud technologies
• Ensure core hours are maintained or adjust schedules as necessary

• Leading the design and implementation of robust, scalable, and secure cloud-native solutions on AWS.
• Collaborating with security experts to translate organizational security requirements into secure and compliant cloud implementations.
• Developing and maintaining infrastructure-as-code to manage and provision infrastructure across numerous Azure and AWS accounts, ensuring consistency and efficiency.
• Maintaining and optimizing CI/CD automation pipelines to facilitate rapid and reliable software deployments.
• Crafting automation scripts in Python, Bash, JavaScript, and other relevant languages to streamline operational workflows.
• Contributing to the development and maintenance of infrastructure supporting Generative AI applications on domain-specific datasets.
• Automating the creation and management of front and back-end applications, pipelines, security tooling, etc.
• Defining and advocating for best practices and standards for DevOps success across Element 84 and our customer organizations.

Senior DevOps Engineer – NOAA Badge Required

• Design and implement secure, scalable system architectures supporting mission-critical applications.
• Develop and maintain enterprise software solutions using modern engineering best practices.
• Design, implement, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines supporting secure software delivery.
• Build, configure, and deploy containerized applications into Government-approved IL5 cloud environments.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for repeatable, automated infrastructure deployments.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to support Risk Management Framework (RMF) activities and Authority to Operate (ATO) documentation.
• Develop System Test Plans and support system verification, validation, and deployment activities.
• Produce deployment artifacts, including source repositories, Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs), infrastructure-as-code packages, license files, and other Unlimited Rights delivery documentation.
• Partner with software engineers, cloud engineers, cybersecurity professionals, and Government stakeholders to deliver secure, high-quality solutions.
• Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, technical documentation, and Agile development activities.
• Ensure compliance with Government security requirements, coding standards, DevSecOps practices, and software quality standards.

Systems Architect / DevSecOps Engineer, Mid to Senior, Top Secret Clearance Required

• Evaluate the scalability, resiliency, performance, and security properties in production environments.
• Support the uptime of production services through an On-Call rotation, including monitoring and alerting to meet internal Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
• Ensure reliable incident processes by conducting Disaster Recovery drills.
• Improve reliability through incident management by investigating incidents, implementing remediation strategies, and learning from past incidents.
• Determine reliability and security requirements of components and systems to meet the objectives of the company, customers, and governmental agencies.
• Reduce operational expenses through automation and identify and mitigate failure points.
• Develop new acceleration techniques and analytical tools for early identification of potential issues.
• Ensure a reliable and scalable network, manage network/cloud infrastructure and storage systems, and respond to planned maintenance and outages.
• Plan, design and implement local and wide-area network solutions between multiple platforms and protocols.

Site Reliability Engineer

• Designing, developing, implementing, and supporting solutions across the ServiceNow platform
• Building and supporting employee-focused digital solutions that streamline workflows
• Collaborating with Product Owners, Business Analysts, QA teams, and other IT stakeholders
• Delivering scalable, secure, and reliable solutions that improve operational efficiency
• Contributing to enterprise-wide solutions and continuously expanding ServiceNow expertise

DevOps Engineer III

• Lead the design and implementation of the infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for applications
• Maintain and improve the reliability of existing systems
• Work alongside Product Teams to implement and improve processes
• Mentor a team of DevOps engineers
• Design, implement and automate Cloud Infrastructure in Azure & AWS using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible and Jenkins
• Build and help maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments
• Advise and implement Cloud Native solutions as appropriate
• Ensure infrastructure solutions are compatible with organizational DevOps and Security patterns

Lead DevOps Engineer

• Documentation and knowledge transfer troubleshooting in Linux
• Logging and auditing in Linux
• Automation of Linux and other application related processes with Jenkins and Ansible Core
• Provide scripting and automation for Linux administration
• Manually find and resolve Linux issues
• Modify existing software to correct errors, adapt to new hardware, or improve its performance
• Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints
• Confer with others to design systems and obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements, and interfaces
• Store, retrieve, and manipulate data for analysis of system capabilities and requirements
• Responsible for building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure utilizing knowledge in continuous integration, delivery, and deployment (CI/CD), Cloud technologies, Container Orchestration, and Security
• Build and test end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, ensuring that systems are safe against security threats

DevOps Engineer, Linux Admin

• Develop IaC automation to make deploying and managing secure and hardened Linux systems both in large enterprise environment as well as in multiple SAPs / CAPs standalone (air-gapped) networks faster, more consistent, more sustainable​
• Implementation that enables even those with less code knowledge​
• Strategy including how to enable/transform greater adoption by admins
• Software development of the IaC code base for Linux systems, including: Security hardening, compliance, and automation tasks
• Automated Linux system provisioning and configuration management
• Manage common software tools, agents, and config​
• Stage and test rollouts of software & configurations​
• Manage enterprise-scale Linux services and infrastructure
• Upgrades of IaC infrastructure itself, both servers and agents​

Linux Infrastructure-as-Code DevOps Engineer

• Acknowledge vulnerability notifications within 24 hours / next business day, triaging into the appropriate SLA response tier (High: 30 days, Medium: 180 days, Low: 360 days)
• Remediate identified system vulnerabilities on a weekly release cadence, including modification, testing, and installation of fixes across all instances; document via release notes, installation guides, and user guides
• Perform security assessments and vulnerability scans using AWS Inspector, AWS Security Hub, Twistlock, or similar tools
• Maintain trusted base images and automate dependency updates (e.g., Renovate Bot); execute container scans in CI/CD pipelines
• Audit and inventory non-Terraformed legacy resources, systematically remediating configuration drift into managed code
• Configure and maintain network boundaries: VPC subnets, security groups, Network ACLs, firewalls, VPN configurations, and route paths
• Maintain development environment readiness: Terraform updates, git repo builds, key/credential validation, and log analysis for AppDev teams
• Coordinate cross-team remediation schedules and story prioritization with AppDev workstreams; participate in on-call rotations supporting Tier 2/3 incident response

DevOps Engineer III, Platform Maintenance, Vulnerability Response

• DevOps Engineer III serves as an emerging individual contributor within a team, expanding your leadership, guidance, and mentoring skills.
• You will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule, and delivery requirements.
• You will interact with stakeholders and utilize influential skills to drive improvements in DevOps processes and practices.
• Manage blue/green and linear application rollouts with automated rollback to ensure zero-downtime production deployments.
• Build and maintain cost-optimization scripts using AWS Compute Optimizer and Cost Explorer to flag and clean up idle resources and orphaned volumes.
• Validate data encryption controls at rest (KMS) and in transit (TLS) across databases and cloud storage.
• Build and maintain authentication and access-control infrastructure supporting deployments, applying IAM least-privilege policies.
• Expand Terraform/IaC coverage across AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Lambda, and IAM.
• Support the observability/SRE lead during disaster recovery failover exercises; execute and document DR testing and maintain runbook accuracy.
• Provide deployment support to AppDev teams; maintain deployment runbooks as part of the Definition of Done.
• Participate in on-call and production triage rotations, supporting Tier 2/3 incident response.

DevOps Engineer III, Deployment, Release Safety & Disaster Recovery

• DevOps Engineer IV serves as a senior individual contributor and technical leader within a team, providing leadership, guidance, and mentoring to other engineers.
• You will be responsible for meeting scope, schedule, and delivery requirements, interacting with stakeholders, and driving improvements in DevOps processes and practices across the program.
• Set up and operate monitoring and observability tooling (AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki log aggregation) for real-time visibility into application health, performance, and infrastructure
• Build and maintain "Golden Signals" performance dashboards measuring latency, traffic, errors, and saturation
• Implement the DORA metrics roadmap using Grafana and GitLab analytics to establish performance baselines
• Manage Tier 2/3 production support within strict SLAs: 1-hour initial response, 4-hour critical resolution, 99.9% uptime commitment
• Author Root Cause Analyses within 3 business days of any severity-1 production outage; maintain on-call runbooks and change correlation
• Author and maintain the BCDR plan, including recovery architecture and RTO targets, cross-region replication (RDS, S3), Route 53 routing, and Secrets Manager; coordinate biannual failover drills
• Configure centralized alerting and incident tooling (Jira Service Desk/ServiceNow, Microsoft Teams, AWS Chatbot)
• Implement AWS Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing; deliver sprint performance reports and cost-optimization recommendations
• Support recruiting efforts by evaluating homework assignments and potentially assisting with interviews

DevOps Engineer IV – Operational Resilience, Observability, SRE

• DevOps Engineer IV serves as a senior individual contributor and technical leader within a team, providing leadership, guidance, and mentoring to other engineers.
• You will be responsible for meeting scope, schedule, and delivery requirements, interacting with stakeholders, and driving improvements in DevOps processes and practices across the program.
• Design, build, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines in GitLab CI and Jenkins with build-once promotion patterns, fail-fast verification, and automated rollbacks across dev, staging, and production.
• Create and maintain shared deployment tooling, reusable GitLab CI templates, and Terraform modules that 5+ AppDev delivery teams consume as self-service infrastructure.
• Maintain standard, secure base Docker images for Java, Python, and Angular applications; deploy containers on AWS ECS, EKS, or Fargate with zero-downtime patterns.
• Enforce pipeline security and quality gates (Trivy container scanning, SonarQube static analysis, Open Policy Agent policy-as-code) at the commit/merge stage.
• Mitigate over-privileged IAM configurations using least-privilege standards without disrupting active production services.
• Develop the roadmap for and implement DORA metrics (Deployment Frequency, Change Lead Time, Change Failure Rate, MTTR) in the program's CI/CD capabilities.
• Author and maintain runbooks, deployment documentation, and architecture documentation; lead knowledge-transfer sessions with engineering teams.
• Participate in SAFe ceremonies including PI planning, dependency management, and CI/CD roadmap development.
• Support recruiting efforts by evaluating homework assignments and potentially assisting with interviews.

DevOps Engineer IV, CI/CD Pipeline, Platform Engineering

• Design, implement, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines to support DevOps workflows.
• Work closely with development, operations, and security teams to integrate security tools and best practices into the software development lifecycle.
• Automate infrastructure deployment using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) while maintaining security and scalability.
• Develop and enforce security policies and ensure continuous monitoring of vulnerabilities and risks in the systems.
• Manage and secure cloud infrastructure (Azure, or GCCH) to optimize performance and compliance.
• Collaborate with the security team to perform threat modeling and risk assessments, and address identified vulnerabilities.
• Monitor systems, logs, and events to detect security threats, misconfigurations, and other operational or security issues.
• Stay current with industry trends in DevSecOps tools, cloud security, and cybersecurity practices.
• Create technical documentation and workflows for DevOps processes and security implementations.
• Provide mentorship and promote secure DevOps best practices across development and operations teams.

Senior Secure DevOps Engineer

• You'll own the reliability, scalability, and security of the production application and/or platform. You will do this by:
• - Implementing a World-Class Observability Platform: Design, implement, and manage our monitoring, logging, and alerting stack (e.g., Prometheus, Loki, Alloy, and Grafana). You won't just track metrics; you'll create the actionable insights and automated alerting that allow teams to identify and resolve issues before they impact users.
• - Defining and Upholding Reliability: Define, measure, and own alerting that feeds into our Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs), increasing trust internally and externally. You will be the organization's expert on what it means for our systems to be reliable and how to measure it.
• - Leading Incident Response: Act as the incident responder and potentially incident commander during critical incidents who will lead blameless post-mortems / After Action Reviews (AARs) that identify true root causes and drive automated, long-term solutions to prevent recurrence.
• - Automating for Scale and Security: Partner with platform engineers to design, build, and manage secure, resilient Kubernetes clusters and cloud/on-prem environments using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible). You will embed security and compliance controls (RMF, STIGs) directly into this automation.
• - Eliminating Toil and Scaling the Team: Proactively identify and eliminate operational toil by building automation. You will partner with other teams to share best practices for air-gapped environments and support their readiness for production.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

• Serve as the technical authority for DevOps and DevSecOps architecture across multiple projects.
• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of secure, scalable cloud-native platforms.
• Engage in and improve the full lifecycle of services—from design and development through deployment, operations, monitoring, and optimization.
• Capture and execute customer requirements while ensuring alignment with project objectives and performance metrics.
• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise CI/CD pipelines using industry best practices.
• Define, establish, and maintain DevSecOps standards, processes, and governance across the software development lifecycle.
• Lead infrastructure integration, automation, and orchestration efforts across development, testing, and production environments.
• Design and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using tools such as Terraform.
• Standardize the creation, deployment, and management of Helm charts and Kubernetes-based application deployments.
• Develop and implement automated testing frameworks and deployment strategies to improve reliability and reduce operational risk.
• Monitor platform performance, availability, scalability, and security while proactively identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Conduct architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical design sessions.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and application issues while providing root cause analysis and long-term solutions.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership across cross-functional teams.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend solutions that improve efficiency, security, and scalability.
• Collaborate directly with government stakeholders and program leadership to develop technical roadmaps and modernization strategies.
• Support proposal development, technical solutioning, and architecture planning efforts as required.

Platform DevOps Engineer

• Design, implement, and manage RF ground systems infrastructure using tools like Kubernetes and GitLab.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure consistent and secure cloud infrastructure deployments.
• Write and maintain scripts in Python or Shell to automate RF ground system processes and enhance operational efficiency.
• Apply enterprise security design principles to RF ground systems workflow, ensuring that security is an integral part of the development process.
• Participate in incident response activities, identifying and mitigating security threats in real-time.
• Ensure that all DevSecOps practices comply with organizational standards and regulatory requirements.
• Work closely with development, operations, and security teams to foster a culture of shared responsibility for security.

Senior Infrastructure – DevSecOps Engineer, RF Ground Systems

• Lead the development of robust systems at Booz Allen
• Build resilient infrastructure through redundancy and monitoring tools
• Automate routine tasks and self-repair processes
• Support on-prem data centers while learning the cloud
• Collaborate with engineers and act as a subject matter expert

• Architect and implement scalable hosting solutions for dynamic SaaS web applications, ensuring reliability, performance, and resilience at scale
• Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of secure, scalable, and reliable Infrastructure-as-Code solutions across GCPay environments
• Establish, document, and drive adoption of engineering standards, operational processes, and DevOps best practices that improve consistency, maintainability, and delivery efficiency
• Own and continuously strengthen security and compliance practices across infrastructure and applications, including hardening, access controls, and least-privilege enforcement
• Use modern tools such as Docker, Terraform, AWS cloud technologies, and related automation frameworks to provision, manage, and deploy infrastructure and services
• Partner closely with development and testing teams throughout the development lifecycle to ensure quality, operational readiness, and successful delivery
• Drive automation across build, deployment, infrastructure, and operational workflows, and evaluate new technologies where they can improve reliability, scalability, security, or developer productivity
• Define, monitor, and improve Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets to ensure reliability goals are measurable, understood, and achieved
• Provide technical leadership in aligning platform strategy, infrastructure investments, and operational priorities with business and product requirements
• Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident response efforts, ensuring timely resolution, strong cross-functional coordination, and clear communication during production events
• Lead blameless post-incident reviews to identify root causes, drive corrective and preventive actions, and improve overall platform reliability and team effectiveness
• Contribute hands-on coding, scripting, and automation to improve tooling, deployment workflows, infrastructure management, and operational efficiency
• Own the operational health, scalability, and security posture of GCPay’s core platform, including systems built on Java, MySQL, ElasticSearch, and AWS cloud technologies
• Serve as a senior technical resource and trusted partner across teams, using sound engineering judgment and business context to solve complex platform and operational challenges

Senior DevOps Engineer, GCPay

• Build, deploy, and maintain scalable, highly available systems on AWS
• Own CI/CD pipelines and drive improvements to deployment automation
• Own and evolve infrastructure as code using Terraform and Ansible
• Research new tools and technologies, develop proofs of concept, and introduce validated practices to the team
• Improve system reliability — sharpen alerting, build out runbooks, and deepen observability across our stack (Grafana, Loki, Mimir, Tempo)
• Participate in an on-call rotation; off-hours incidents are rare thanks to extensive automation and self-healing — occasional evening work is limited to planned maintenance and system upgrades
• Maintain process documentation, operational runbooks, and infrastructure diagrams
• Help maintain and manage systems for other teams
• Raise the DevOps literacy of the engineering team — mentoring junior engineers and helping non-infrastructure engineers build good practices around deployments, observability, and reliability
• Collaborate with engineering teams on infrastructure design decisions

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DevOps Engineer III

Lead DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer, Linux Admin

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DevOps Engineer III, Platform Maintenance, Vulnerability Response

DevOps Engineer III, Deployment, Release Safety & Disaster Recovery

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DevOps Engineer IV, CI/CD Pipeline, Platform Engineering

Senior Secure DevOps Engineer

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Site Reliability Engineer

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