Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer

ECS is seeking a Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer to work in our Arlington, VA (hybrid) office. 

We are looking for a talented Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer who is passionate about building, automating, and operating modern cloud environments. Strong candidates will have deep hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, containers, Linux, networking, and infrastructure-as-code, with a desire to continuously improve the reliability, scalability, security, and efficiency of technical environments.

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on designing, building, automating, and operating cloud platforms and delivery pipelines. The ideal candidate will be comfortable writing code and automation, troubleshooting complex infrastructure problems, implementing cloud-native solutions, and partnering directly with software, security, and infrastructure teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, operate, and improve scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code using technologies such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, or equivalent tools.
• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines supporting application, infrastructure, and configuration deployments.
• Develop automation, tooling, scripts, and integrations using languages such as Python, Go, PowerShell, or Bash.
• Deploy and operate containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native container platforms.
• Design and implement cloud architectures using services across AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform.
• Automate provisioning, configuration management, deployment, monitoring, scaling, and operational workflows.
• Support the development and operation of microservices, APIs, distributed applications, and cloud-native platforms.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, observability, and performance-management capabilities across applications and infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot complex issues involving Linux systems, networking, containers, cloud services, application deployments, and automation pipelines.
• Improve system reliability, availability, resiliency, performance, and operational efficiency through automation and engineering.
• Implement and maintain secure configuration, identity and access controls, secrets management, certificates, and cloud security best practices.
• Partner with software engineers to improve development workflows, deployment processes, and application operability.
• Partner with security engineers to integrate security controls into cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and development workflows.
• Identify repetitive operational processes and replace them with scalable automation.
• Evaluate new cloud, DevOps, platform engineering, and automation technologies and determine where they can improve the environment.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship while remaining actively involved in implementation and troubleshooting.

Salary Range: $140,000-$200,000

General Description of Benefits 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, information technology, or another technical discipline, or an associate degree with equivalent years of relevant technical experience.
• At least 8 years of overall technical experience, including significant hands-on experience in several of the following areas:
• DevOps Engineering
• Cloud Engineering
• Platform Engineering
• Unix/Linux Administration
• Infrastructure Automation
• CI/CD Engineering
• Networking and Virtual Infrastructure
• Containerization and Kubernetes
• Application Deployment and Operations
• Software Development or Scripting
• Strong scripting or development experience in at least one language such as Python, Go, PowerShell, Bash, Perl, or similar.
• Demonstrated experience designing, building, and operating production infrastructure using automation and infrastructure-as-code.
• Demonstrated ability to independently troubleshoot complex infrastructure, cloud, networking, application, and deployment issues.
• Ability to work directly with software, security, and infrastructure teams to translate technical requirements into reliable and maintainable engineering solutions.

Must successfully complete a stringent Background Investigation and obtain the required Government Security Clearance.