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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # DevOps Engineer L4/5 - **Company:** POWER3 SOLUTIONS, LLC - **Location:** Annapolis Junction, MD, United States - **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $250,000.0 - **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, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Gitlab, Containerization, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, AWS Fargate, Build Tools, Operational Systems, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Terraform, Docker, Programming Languages, Microservices - **Published:** September 3, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9137105/devops-engineer-l45 ## About the Role * TS/SCI Poly - with CI poly within last 7 years * BS + 12+ years experience * 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 The DevOps Engineer will provide a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates the microservices of a modernized operational system utilizing cutting edge technologies., * 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. 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