DevOps Engineer
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Summary
DevOps Engineer at Swift, a government services company, building and maintaining AWS/EKS cloud and on-premise infrastructure for mission-critical defense and intelligence systems. Day-to-day work spans Kubernetes, IaC automation (Terraform, Ansible), CI/CD, and Linux systems; requires US citizenship, an active Secret clearance, and on-site presence in Columbia, MD 4-5 days/week.
Locations: Columbia, MD
Swift is a privately held, mission-driven and employee-focused services and solutions company headquartered in Reston, VA. Our capabilities include Software Development, Engineering & IT, Data Science, Cyber Enablement, Logistics, and Training. Founded in 2019, Swift supports Civilian, Defense, and Intelligence Community customers across the country and around the globe.
We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our high-performing team on a dynamic program. In this role, the DevOps Engineer will work hands-on with cloud infrastructure, containerized platforms, and automation frameworks to enable scalable, secure, and efficient delivery of mission-critical systems.
This position requires expertise in Kubernetes, AWS, automation tools and scripting, with the opportunity to support cutting-edge Big Data platforms. You will help architect, deploy, and maintain infrastructure for both cloud and on-premise systems, while championing reliability, repeatability, and performance.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and maintain cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure solutions in AWS, with a focus on Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
- Deploy and manage containerized applications using Kubernetes across development and production environments
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and application deployment using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and Ansible
- Monitor and support Linux-based systems for availability and performance
- Collaborate with development teams to integrate CI/CD pipelines and improve release cycles using tools like Git, Flux, and Jenkins
- Continuously improve processes and tools to ensure high availability and performance
- Support deployment of portable edge-computing infrastructure to non-cloud (on-premise) environments
- Diagnose and resolve system issues across the stack, including networking, containers, and cloud services
- Participate in Agile development activities and contribute to continuous process improvement initiatives
- Stay current with emerging DevOps technologies, container orchestration strategies, and cloud capabilities
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
- Mid-level candidates: 3-8 years of relevant experience
- Senior-level candidates: 9-13 years of relevant experience
- SME-level candidates: 14+ years of relevant experience
- Hands-on experience with AWS services such as EKS, EC2, EBS, S3, Lambda
- Proficient in Linux systems administration and troubleshooting
- Proficient in scripting/programming abilities in Python, Bash, or Go
- Knowledge of containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes)
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, and other IaC or configuration management tools
- Familiarity with Git, Flux, and other development and deployment tools
- Demonstrated ability to work in Agile environments and use tools such as JIRA and Confluence
- Must be able to obtain Security+ certification within 60 days of hire
- Must be available to work on-site 4-5 days per week; flexibility is required to align with customer needs
- US citizenship and an active Secret clearance; will also accept TS/SCI or TS/SCI with CI Polygraph
Desired Experience:
- Experience with big data technologies like: Hadoop, Accumulo, Ceph, Spark, NiFi, Kafka, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Hive, Drill, Impala, Trino, Presto, etc.
- Work could possibly require some on-call work.
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Skills
- Agile
- Ansible
- Automation
- AWS
- Bash
- Big Data
- Ceph
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Cloud Native
- Confluence
- Containerization
- Data Science
- DevOps
- Docker
- EC2
- EKS
- Elasticsearch
- Flux
- Git
- Hadoop
- Hive
- Infrastructure as Code
- Jenkins
- Jira
- Kafka
- Kubernetes
- Lambda
- Linux
- Networking
- NiFi
- PostgreSQL
- Process Improvement
- Python
- S3
- Spark
- Swift
- Terraform
- Trino
- TypeScript