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