Senior Cloud Platform DevOps Engineer - The Swift Group
Reston, VA
About the Job
The Swift Group is looking for a Senior Cloud Platform DevOps Engineer who will set up cloud environments and provision computer networking, storage, and virtual networks. We're looking for a seasoned DevOps infrastructure engineer to support our clients as they modernize their IT infrastructures and meet their most challenging missions.
As a lead DevOps infrastructure engineer at The Swift Group, you'll oversee a team of cloud architects and engineers as they manage server configuration for modern cloud solutions. You'll apply your skills and experience within a DevOps framework to establish or provision virtual machines or networks and use cloud service providers to further our clients' meaningful missions.
Required Qualifications:
- 8+ years of experience in the development of tools and processes to drive DevOps or DevSecOps maturity by automating builds, regression testing, monitoring, and pushing releases across environments
- 8+ years of experience with troubleshooting, triaging, and resolving issues related to CI/CD pipeline failures or slowness
- 5+ years of experience with commercial Cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure, containers, serverless architecture, micro-services, Web services, and RESTful API design
- Experience with deploying active AWS or Azure services using Infrastructure-as-Code technologies, including CloudFormation or Terraform
- Experience with provisioning, installation, configuration, operation, and maintenance of software and infrastructure-as-code in a DevOps and continuous delivery environment using automated deployment and testing frameworks
- Experience with deploying CI/CD solutions to Cloud-based environments supporting a continuous integration and development and continuous delivery and release workflow
- Experience with developing API solutions using Infrastructure-as-Code and Cloud-oriented strategies
- Experience working within an Agile and version-controlled environment
- Bachelor's degree or five or more years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree
- US Citizenship and an active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam required
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience with development languages to build, troubleshoot, and deploy CI/CD artifacts to production environments
- Experience with multiple CI/CD and Agile Development tools, including GitLab, Atlassian, and Jenkins
- Experience with developing Linux-based solutions using commercial Cloud
- Experience with deploying and managing logging and monitoring solutions supporting rapid deployments
- Bachelor's degree in Associate Cloud or Development Technologies
- TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph security clearance preferred
Clearance
Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance is required.
The Swift Groups is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.