DevOps Engineer (Mission-Critical Systems)

Location: Remote (Suitland, Maryland, US)

Department: Information Technology

About the role

What you'll do

• Collaborate with operations teams to understand current processes and pain points, and propose modernization strategies.
• Develop solutions that automate manual business processes and streamline operations.
• Work with complex satellite-based data at all stages including ingest, processing, and dissemination. 
• Support efforts to modernize legacy systems, including cloud migrations, containerizations, and infrastructure updates.
• Design and implement cloud-based solutions in AWS environments.
• Leverage DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and configuration management to ensure efficient deployment and scalability.
• Design, implement, and optimize monitoring systems using the TIG stack (Telegraf, InfluxDB, Grafana).
• Work in agile environments, participating in sprints and iterative development to deliver high-quality software products.
• Deploy applications in containerized environments (e.g., Docker) and ensure smooth integration in mixed Linux and Windows environments.

Qualifications

• Expertise in cloud software and AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, CloudFormation).
• Hands-on experience developing solutions in AWS cloud environments.
• Previous experience modernizing legacy architectures and applications and implementing automated solutions.
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience deploying and optimizing the TIG stack (Telegraf, InfluxDB, Grafana).
• Expertise with containerization tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud-native solutions.
• Familiarity with both Windows and Linux operating environments.
• Experience with Bash shell scripting, Perl, Python, and/or C#.
• Experience with Jira projects and Confluence for documentation and collaboration.
• Experience supporting federal government mission environments, especially NOAA/NESDIS, is highly preferred.

• BS in Computer Science, Engineering, related disciplines or equivalent.
• 6+ years of experience in software development/engineering.

About the Company

About Tactibit Technologies