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June 30, 2026
Software Developer
Mid • On-site
Potomac, MD
Clearance & Citizenship Requirements
This position requires U.S. Citizenship and an active TS/SCI security clearance with Full Scope Polygraph. Candidates who do not currently hold these credentials will not be considered.
Description
DevOps position supporting a team specializing in designing, engineering, implementation, development, and maintenance of enterprise-quality mission systems, networks, and applications.
Mandatory Skills
- Hands-on experience writing, testing, and maintaining Infrastructure as Code with Terraform (required) and CloudFormation (required)
- Hands-on experience configuring, managing, and troubleshooting AWS services including EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, VPC, Security Groups, NACLs, IAM, CloudWatch, and other core services
- Hands-on experience implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins preferred; GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar acceptable)
- Strong proficiency in Bash (required) and Python (required) scripting
- Hands-on experience with containerization technologies (Docker required)
- Hands-on experience integrating and deploying diverse software systems: AWS cloud services, open-source applications, COTS/GOTS products, and custom applications
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, security best practices, IAM policies, and AWS architecture best practices
- Hands-on experience with Git-based workflows, branching strategies, and version control best practices
- Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting systems (Prometheus/Alertmanager, CloudWatch, or similar)
- Hands-on experience with database self-hosting including installation, configuration, backup/recovery, high availability, and performance tuning (PostgreSQL and MySQL)
Optional Skills
- Experience with secrets management solutions (AWS Secrets Manager or similar)
- Knowledge of disaster recovery, backup strategies, and continuity planning
- Familiarity with API gateways and modern microservices patterns
- Experience with cost optimization practices in AWS
- Experience deploying and managing data platform components: Apache Spark, Trina, Apache Ranger, Apache Iceberg, Apache Superset, data catalogs
- Familiarity with data lakehouse architectures and supporting infrastructure
- Background deploying and supporting AI/ML workloads or model serving infrastructure
- Experience mentoring team members on DevOps and cloud best practices
- Familiarity with additional monitoring tools (Grafana, ELK stack)
- Experience integrating customer Enterprise services (SSO, etc.)
- Experience with NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, MongoDB, etc.)
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