DevOps Engineer 4
Senior DevOps engineer/architect at Wyetech who designs, builds, and evolves AWS infrastructure and event-driven services (Lambda, OpenSearch, DynamoDB, SQS) for federal government customers, with hands-on Java/Spring Boot and Python development, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and mentoring of junior engineers. Requires an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
- Compensation
- $55–$129 / hr
- Location
- Annapolis Junction, Maryland
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Active TS/SCI security clearance with agency-appropriate polygraph (US citizenship required)
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education
- 12 years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree plus 10 years of relevant experience
Nice to have
- Java (Spring Boot) or Python
- Microservice architectures
- CI/CD tools: AWS tools, Maven, GitLab & GitOps; Kubernetes, Docker
- NoSQL / MongoDB query and schema design
- OAuth/OIDC implementation experience
- Test frameworks and automation including Playwright and Cucumber
Full description
At Wyetech, you’ll be at the center of an award-winning corporate culture, breaking technological barriers and solving real-world problems for our federal government customers. We are committed to hiring the best of the best, and in return, we offer a world-class, truly unique employee experience that is rare within our industry.
Software Architect who will own the design, delivery, and evolution of our AWS infrastructure and associated application services. The ideal candidate blends deep AWS expertise (Lambda, OpenSearch, DynamoDB, SQS, CloudWatch, etc.) with hands on Java and Python development skills and can mentor a small team of junior engineers while driving architectural best practices across the program.
Analyze, design, verify, validate, implement, apply, and maintain software systems. Appropriately apply discrete mathematics, probability and statistics, and other relevant topics in computer science and supporting disciplines to complex software systems. Generalize techniques, as appropriate, to apply to multiple domains. Develop and provide appropriate documentation and training. Present briefings and demonstrations to stakeholders
*This position is eligible for a $5k bonus! (Includes 20% SEP IRA contribution)*Due to federal contract requirements, United States Citizenship and position appropriate security clearance is required. (e.g. Active TS/SCI security clearance with agency appropriate polygraph).
Capabilties
- Design & Blueprint – Create end to end, scalable, secure, and cost optimized architectures for event driven services, data pipelines, and search solutions on AWS.
- Hands On Development – Write production grade Java (Spring Boot) and Python (Lambdas) services that run as AWS Lambda functions or containerized workloads (Kubernetes).
- Infrastructure as Code – Define and maintain IaC, ensuring reproducibility and version control of the entire stack
- Data & Messaging Layer – Architect and implement solutions leveraging DynamoDB, OpenSearch, SQS, SNS for high throughput, low latency data access and streaming.
- Observability & Reliability – Implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting for CloudWatch and custom dashboards.
- CI/CD & DevSecOps - Be familiar with Gitlab pipeline, static code analysis, blue-green/canary deployments.
- Technical Leadership – Mentor 2 4 junior developers, conduct code reviews, run architecture deep dives, and champion best practice adoption (clean code, design patterns)
- Collaboration – Be able to communicate technical details / solutions as well as roadblocks to leadership and business stakeholders and provide robust solutions as needed.
- Documentation – Produce clear, up to date architectural diagrams, run books, and knowledge base articles to enable cross team consumption. Be able to prepare Standard Operating Procedure for frequently executed as well as on-call operations.