DevOps Engineer

This role supports the U.S. Air Force Cloud One Architecture and Common Shared Services contract and currently has an opening for a DevOps Engineer. SES is seeking a DevOps Engineer supporting AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle Clouds. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience to modernize a leading, global-scale multi-cloud environment in support of a critical mission, supporting USAF system resiliency, security, and cost effectiveness. **Location:** This position will be hybrid requiring some on-site work in either Boston, MA or Montgomery, AL. As a DevOps Engineer, you will develop scalable cloud-native solutions, and implement best practices across architecture, development, deployment, and security and you will work within a group of DevOps/SRE engineers. This role is essential to ensuring secure, scalable, and resilient connectivity across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. You’ll work closely with cloud engineers, cybersecurity analysts, and program leadership to drive continuous improvement and deliver value to the mission. - Work with a group of 5-15 DevOps and SRE engineers to fulfill the requirements for the program - Implement using software engineering principles to build and maintain scalable, highly reliable, and performant large-scale systems - Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for secure, automated software delivery. - Design and implement highly available, fault-tolerant systems for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Help define, implement and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs to ensure service reliability and performance - Implement robust monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, and CloudWatch - Support incident response and postmortem processes to drive continuous improvement - Collaborate with development teams to embed reliability into application design and deployment - support capacity planning including forecasting resource needs to ensure systems can scale effectively. - Ensure compliance with security best practices, including IAM, VPC design, and encryption standards - Implement DevSecOps pipelines for a variety of technical stacks on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. - Develop infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation. - Deploy and manage applications on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). - Configure and optimize container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker). - Maintain high availability, scalability, and performance of cloud-based systems. - Configure and maintain virtualized environments to ensure performance, scalability, and security - Support infrastructure modernization efforts by integrating virtualization solutions into hybrid cloud environments. - Implement automated security tools for vulnerability scanning, static/dynamic application security testing (SAST/DAST), and container security. - Drive consistency for deployment and build processes - Help establish proactive monitoring solutions to ensure system reliability and availability. - Respond to and troubleshoot production incidents, performing root cause analysis and resolution. - Embed security best practices into the SDLC and CI/CD processes. - Supports the development of strategy and integration methodology around design, development and implementation of cloud-based solutions - Enable the quick development and release of changes and bug-fixes on an as-required basis and incorporate feedback from developers/users. - Prepare detailed technical documentation to support development and operational processes **Required Skills:** - Bachelor’s Degree and 8+ years or more of experience; additional years of experience may be accepted in lieu of degree. - Must have an active Secret clearance. - Certifications: CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (IAT-2) - Abi…