DevOps Engineer

<h2>Overview</h2> <p>REI Systems’ mission is to deliver reliable, innovative technology solutions that advance Federal clients' missions and exceed their expectations. Our technologists and consultants are passionate about solving complex challenges that impact millions of lives. We take a Mindful Modernization® approach in delivering our services, including application modernization, grants management, case management systems, government data analytics, and advisory services. This approach, the REI Way, ensures mission impact by aligning our clients' strategic objectives with measurable outcomes through people, processes, and technology.&nbsp;&nbsp;We offer the same commitment to our employees by providing professional development, meaningful projects, and flexibility to spend time with family and friends. We believe employees are at their best when fulfilled in both their professional careers and their personal lives. Learn more at www.REIsystems.com.&nbsp;&nbsp;Employees voted REI Systems a Washington Post Top Workplace in 2015, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025!</p> <h2>Responsibilities</h2> <p>REI Systems is seeking a <strong>DevOps Engineer</strong> to support the design, implementation, automation, and operation of enterprise-scale cloud environments and software delivery platforms. This individual will work closely with software engineering, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to build reliable CI/CD pipelines, automate cloud infrastructure, support containerized applications, and improve the performance and availability of production and non-production environments.</p> <p>The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience with <strong>AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, scripting, monitoring, and production support</strong> within complex enterprise environments.</p> <h3>DevOps Engineering &amp; Automation</h3> <ul> <li>Design, develop, maintain, and improve <strong>CI/CD pipelines and software delivery tools</strong> supporting enterprise-scale applications and development teams.</li> <li>Design, develop, and maintain <strong>Infrastructure as Code (IaC)</strong> solutions for cloud infrastructure and application environments.</li> <li>Build, deploy, and support <strong>containerized applications and microservices</strong> using Kubernetes, Docker, AWS EKS, and/or OpenShift.</li> <li>Develop automation scripts using <strong>Bash, Python, Groovy, or similar scripting languages</strong> to streamline DevOps and operational processes.</li> <li>Support application and microservice deployments across cloud-based development, test, staging, and production environments.</li> <li>Partner with development teams to troubleshoot application, configuration, deployment, and infrastructure-related issues.</li> <li>Contribute to short- and long-term strategies for improving cloud scalability, resiliency, automation, and operational efficiency.</li> <li>Evaluate and implement emerging <strong>DevOps, cloud-native, and automation technologies</strong> to continuously improve engineering practices.</li> </ul> <h3>Production Operations &amp; Reliability</h3> <ul> <li>Support the availability, reliability, and performance of <strong>24x7 production and non-production environments</strong>.</li> <li>Participate in incident, problem, and change management processes, including root cause analysis and corrective action planning.</li> <li>Monitor infrastructure, applications, networks, servers, and databases to proactively identify performance or availability issues.</li> <li>Develop and track operational KPIs related to <strong>system availability, uptime, SLA performance, incidents, and operational health</strong>.</li> <li>Perform operational maintenance activities including operating system patching, security remediation, vulnerability management, and environment upgrades.</li> <li>Administer and improve monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability capabilities.</li> <li>Analyze logs, metrics, and monitoring data to identify root causes of critical incidents and recurring system issues.</li> <li>Participate in an <strong>on-call rotation</strong> and provide hands-on support during production incidents, outages, deployments, and service transitions.</li> <li>Continuously improve system observability through enhanced monitoring, dashboards, metrics, alerts, and log analytics.</li> </ul> <h2>Qualifications</h2> <ul> <li><strong>3+ years of relevant DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or Systems Engineering experience.</strong></li> <li>Strong understanding of <strong>CI/CD concepts and pipelines</strong>, preferably using Jenkins and Groovy.</li> <li>Hands-on experience with container technologies including <strong>Kubernetes, Docker, AWS EKS, and/or OpenShift</strong>.</li> <li>Strong understanding of <strong>microservices architecture and container-based application environments</strong>.</li> <li>Experience developing automation scripts using <strong>Bash, Python, Perl, or similar languages</strong>.</li> <li>Hands-on experience with AWS services including <strong>VPC, EC2, EKS, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch</strong>, and related cloud services.</li> <li>Experience with monitoring, logging, and application performance tools such as <strong>AWS CloudWatch, New Relic, or similar platforms</strong>.</li> <li>Experience with source code and version control systems such as <strong>Git and/or Subversion</strong>.</li> <li>Experience supporting or maintaining <strong>Java and/or Node.js web applications</strong>, including technologies such as Spring Boot and React.</li> <li>Experience troubleshooting production application, infrastructure, networking, and deployment issues.</li> <li>Understanding of incident management, problem management, change management, SLAs, and production support practices.</li> <li>Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and teamwork skills.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Education:&nbsp;</strong>Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.</p> <p><strong>Clearance:</strong> Candidate must be a US Citizen to support this federal project and able to obtain and maintain a Clearance.</p> <p><strong>Location:&nbsp;</strong>Hybrid (2 Day per week in our Sterling, VA HQ)</p> <p><strong>EEO Statement: </strong>REI Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>#LI-HYBRID</p> <p>#LI-TK1</p>