DevOps Engineer - Level 4/5

Wyetech is a small business founded in June 2007, built on a simple vision that hasn’t changed since day one: hire awesome people, compensate them well, and channel their enthusiasm into making customers happy. That commitment shows up in our benefits, including a best-in-class retirement plan: Wyetech contributes the equivalent of 20% of your salary to your SEP IRA, helping you build real long-term financial security. Our mission is to give employees the best possible environment to thrive while delivering stellar services and solutions for our customers and their missions. We call it engineering happiness: for our customers, and shared by the talented team that makes it happen.

DevOps Engineer Level 4/ 5 – Team Lead

Job Description

Wyetech is seeking a DevOps Engineer Level 5 – Team Lead to provide technical leadership and direction for a team responsible for delivering a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates the microservices of a modernized operational system utilizing cutting-edge technologies.

This position combines hands-on DevOps engineering with team leadership responsibilities, including AWS infrastructure architecture, infrastructure automation, sprint planning, workload management, and technical oversight.

The DevOps Engineer Team Lead will be responsible for:

• Extensive experience architecting infrastructure leveraging AWS technologies and services.

• Developing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools. Popular programming languages for DevOps engineers include Python, Ansible, and Terraform.

• Strong background in containerization technologies: install, configure, and provide performance tuning utilizing Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, Docker, Docker Compose, etc.

• Perform high-level functional systems analysis, design, integration, documentation, cost analysis, implementation, and complex issue resolutions.

• Cloud infrastructure cost savings: iteratively evaluate costs, recommend cost savings measures, reduce maintenance, and reduce AWS services costs.

• Sprint priority decomposition and ticket generation to align with internal team priorities.

• Manage team tasking and sprint workloads, keeping the team on task and executing in an orchestrated manner.

• Tracking ticket execution while driving technical direction of the infrastructure to align with the program and product needs.

• Managing CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing, and deploying code utilizing GitLab runners and Argo CD.

• Communication and collaboration: Able to communicate and collaborate effectively with other team members, as well as with stakeholders.

Work Environment: The position allows little to no work from home and will require a significant portion or all work to be performed in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF).

Required Skills/Qualifications

• Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education.

• 12 years or more of professional experience; or 10 years of professional experience with a related Masters degree.

• Able to support an on-call rotation.

Desired Skills

Candidates should possess at least two of the following:

• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure including but not limited to EC2, Lambdas, S3, SNS, SQS, Event Router, Athena, Step Functions using Terraform and auto scaling.

• Understanding of AWS networking principles to include VPCs, NATs, IP Gateway.

• Develop and manage Gitlab CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment processes.

• Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance and reliability.

• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and ensure system uptime.

• Kubernetes experience with a focus on EKS, ECS, and/or Fargate.

Clearance Requirements

Active TS Clearance with Customer Appropriate Polygraph

Due to federal contract requirements, United States Citizenship and position-appropriate security clearance are required.

Benefits

Wyetech provides a generous PTO plan of up to 200 hours annually, aligned with applicable state leave regulations. Employees have the flexibility to adjust their PTO allocation at the start of each calendar year, ensuring it meets their evolving needs.

Full-time employees have the option to participate in a variety of voluntary benefit plans including:

• A Choice of Medical Plan Options, some with Health Savings Account (HSA)

• Vision and Dental

• Life and AD&D Benefits

• Short and Long-Term Disability

• Hospital Indemnity, Accident, and Critical Illness Insurances

• Optional Identity Theft and Legal Protection Services

• Employee Referral Bonus Eligibility up to $10,000

• Mobility Among Wyetech-supported Contracts

• Various contract and work locations throughout Maryland, Virginia, Colorado, Texas, Utah, Alaska, Hawaii and OCONUS

• Various team-building events throughout the year such as: monthly lunches, summer company picnic, and an annual holiday party.

• Employees receive two complementary branded clothing orders annually.

Salary Range

$90.80–$132.41 USD Hourly

Hourly pay rates listed for this position serve as a general guideline and are not a guarantee of compensation. Compensation will vary dependent upon factors including but not limited to: Government contract rates; education; relevant prior work experience, knowledge, skills, and competencies; certifications, and geographic location. Hourly pay rates reflect the pre-benefit gross wage amounts.

Wyetech, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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Wyetech, LLC is committed to the principles of affirmative action in all hiring and employment for minorities, women, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans.

Accommodations:

Wyetech, LLC is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible hiring process. If you need any accommodations during the application or interview process, please contact Brittney Wood at 844-WYETECH x727 or staffing@wyetech.com. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to ensure equal access to all candidates.

Wyetech, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Affirmative Action Statement:

Wyetech, LLC is committed to the principles of affirmative action in all hiring and employment for minorities, women, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans.

Accommodations:

Wyetech, LLC is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible hiring process. If you need any accommodations during the application or interview process, please contact Brittney Wood. at 844-WYETECH x727 or staffing@wyetech.com. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to ensure equal access to all candidates.

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