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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # DevOps Engineer 5 [D.26.0158] - **Company:** Dover Networks LLC - **Location:** Dover, MD, United States - **Salary:** $248,000.0 - $272,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Application Performance Management, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Systems Analysis, Python (Programming Language), Networking Basics, Octopus Deploy, Performance Tuning, Ansible, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Software Deployment, Network Routers, Autoscaling, Delivery Pipeline, AWS Lambda, Gitlab, Containerization, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, AWS Fargate, Build Tools, Operational Systems, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Terraform, Docker, Programming Languages, Microservices - **Published:** July 15, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9030468/devops-engineer-5-d260158 ## About the Role * 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. * Current CWIP (DoD 8140) certificate. Desired skills (2 of the below): * 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 ## Description Responsibilities: Provide a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates the microservices of a modernized operational system utilizing cutting edge technologies. The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for: * Extensive experience architecting infrastructure leveraging AWS technologies and services * Developing Infrastructure As Code (laC) 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. Duties: * 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. ## Related Videos - [WeAreDevelopers LIVE - Modern DevOps for IoT Devices and More](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1805-wearedevelopers-live-modern-devops-for-iot-devices-and-more) - [My journey into DevOps world - How it all started!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/545-my-journey-into-devops-world-how-it-all-started) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered) - [Enabling automated 1-click customer deployments with built-in quality and security](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/83-enabling-automated-1-click-customer-deployments-with-built-in-quality-and-security) - [Demystifying DevOps—Pros, cons, dos & don'ts](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/338-demystifying-devops-pros-cons-dos-don-ts) ## Related Articles - [DevOps Engineer Salary [2023]](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/203-devops-engineer-salary-2023) - [Dev Digest 162: AI careers, MCP, AWS best practices & floppy sweaters](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/571-dev-digest-162-ai-careers-mcp-aws-best-practices-floppy-sweaters) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers)