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# DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** Omni Federal
- **Location:** Chantilly, VA, United States
- **Salary:** $220,000.0 - $240,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Apache HTTP Server, Bash Shell, Databases, Custom Software, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Amazon DynamoDB, Github, Monitoring of Systems, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Metadata Repositories, MongoDB, MySQL, Networking Basics, NoSQL, Open Source Technology, Performance Tuning, Prometheus, Software Systems, Systems Integration, Data Logging, Scripting, System Availability, Delivery Pipeline, Grafana, Apache Spark, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Gitlab, Amazon Relational Database Service, Containerization, Git Flow, Machine Learning Operations, Data Lakehouse, Functional Programming, Cloudwatch, Api Gateway, Software Version Control, Docker, Elk Stack, Jenkins, Microservices
- **Published:** September 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/0cc4f5b3-c22c-43dd-9fd4-d3773f3feba0/devops-engineer

## About the Role

* 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 Cl/CD pipelines (Jenkins preferred, but experience with GitLab Cl, 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)

Nice to Have

 * 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 Al/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's Enterprise services (SSO, etc.)
 * Experience with NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, MongoDB, etc.)

Our team is always hungry for more - more knowledge, more problem solving, more growth, more innovation, and, ultimately, customer success. This hunger and hustle fuel our determination to excel in everything we do. It's not just about meeting established goals; it's about exceeding them. We take immense pride in applying our expertise in cutting-edge technologies and our ability to adapt to emerging trends directly to the users in the field, as our nation's protectors deserve nothing less.