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Two Six Technologies is looking for a
Senior DevOps Engineer to work within a cross-functional development team focused on advancing state-of-the-art projects within the growing cybersecurity technology team in Arlington VA.
This role is hybrid and the hired candidate must be willing to work in the Arlington, VA office 3 - 4 days per week. Local candidates are preferred.
Expectations As a Senior Engineer
- Proactive Problem Solving: Demonstrate a strong drive to independently identify challenges and propose effective, scalable solutions.
- Technical Acumen: Apply deep technical intuition and critical thinking when tackling complex or unfamiliar problems.
- Adaptability: Thrive in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments, maintaining focus and delivering high-quality results under pressure.
- Results-Oriented: Prioritize metrics-driven outcomes and consistently deliver work that creates measurable, meaningful impact.
- Documentation Excellence: Maintain a habit of thoroughly documenting code, system designs, and processes to ensure clarity and long-term maintainability.
- Mentorship and Collaboration: Exhibit a passion for mentoring team members, fostering collaboration, and sharing knowledge to elevate the entire team.
Minimum Qualifications
- Proficiency in Coding: Strong expertise in scripting languages, with a primary focus on Python and bash scripting.
- Design Patterns Expertise: Demonstrated ability to apply software design patterns to build robust, maintainable, and reusable code architectures.
- CI/CD and Tooling: Expert proficiency in CI/CD tooling and pipelines, with hands-on experience using tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab Pipelines.
- Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field or comparable experience.
- Experience: Minimum of 5 years of technical coding experience
- DevOps Experience: Minimum of 3 years of experience implementing and supporting DevOps practices in a production environment.
- Containerization Proficiency: Significant experience working with containerization technologies, particularly Docker.
- Modern Development Practices: Proficiency in modern software development practices, including version control (e.g., Git), CI/CD pipelines, and agile methodologies.
- Scalable Architecture Design: Proven experience designing and implementing scalable architectures in production environments.
- Collaboration Tools: Proficiency in using project management and collaboration tools like JIRA and Confluence.
- Clearance Requirements: Active DoD clearance (Secret or above) with eligibility to obtain up to polygraph.
Nice To Have
- Cloud Expertise: Experience with major cloud service providers, including AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.
- Containerization and Orchestration: Familiarity with tools like Kubernetes, Helm, EKS, and ArgoCD.
- Web Frameworks: Hands-on experience with Python frameworks such as Django or FastAPI.
- Automation and Configuration Management: Experience with tools like Chef, Ansible, or Puppet to streamline infrastructure management.
- Virtualization Knowledge: General understanding and experience with virtualization technologies, such as VMware, Hyper-V, or Xen.
- Infrastructure Best Practices: Knowledge of best practices for infrastructure security, reliability, and fault tolerance.
- Cybersecurity Awareness: Familiarity with cybersecurity systems and principles to safeguard infrastructure and applications.
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Two Six Technologies is committed to providing competitive and comprehensive compensation packages that reflect the value we place on our employees and their contributions. We believe in rewarding skills, experience, and performance. Our offerings include but are not limited to, medical, dental, and vision insurance, life and disability insurance, retirement benefits, paid leave, tuition assistance and professional development.
The projected salary range listed for this position is annualized. This is a general guideline and not a guarantee of salary. Salary is one component of our total compensation package and the specific salary offered is determined by various factors, including, but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills, geographic location, as well as contract specific affordability and organizational requirements.
Salary Range
$90,600—$193,200 USD
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