DevOps Engineer

📋 Job Overview

If you're looking for an opportunity where your work has broad enterprise impact, you'll find it here. Our diverse and growing team offers the chance to solve complex technical challenges, collaborate with talented professionals, and directly contribute to the technology and services that enable the Government's mission around the world.

🏢 About Freedom Technology Solutions Group

Freedom Technology Solutions Group is a company that offers a flexible work environment, a team mentality, innovative technologies, competitive compensation and benefits, work-life balance, and opportunities for career growth.

🎯 The Role

Our diverse and growing team offers the chance to solve complex technical challenges, collaborate with talented professionals, and directly contribute to the technology and services that enable the Government's mission around the world.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Analyze existing capabilities to identify data migration, software modification, legal, security, and compliance requirements associated with cloud transformation efforts.
• Collaborate closely with System Administrators to plan, prioritize, and coordinate day-to-day technical activities supporting cloud conversion and system operations.
• Leverage experience with Ansible and other automation and configuration management tools to streamline system administration, deployment, and operational tasks.
• Plan, test, and deploy system security patches, kernel updates, and software upgrades using established patch management and configuration management tools.
• Engage in the design, development, and testing of software changes required to transition capabilities to the cloud, adhering to the approach and technical direction selected.
• Apply cloud engineering expertise to integrate modified capabilities into cloud environments while optimizing system performance, reliability, automation, and resource utilization.

📌 Required Qualifications

• TS/SCI with Polygraph
• A bachelor's degree in IT and three (3) years of experience in software development/engineering. Four (4) additional years of software development experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree.
• Two (2) years' experience with cloud technologies.
• Experience managing and optimizing DevOps practices within a project or organization
• In-depth understanding of DevOps principles, tools, and methodologies, with a focus on driving efficiency and continuous improvement.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire cross-functional teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.
• Experience with Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) processes for automation.
• Experience developing and updating technical documentation.
• Experience with agile development methodologies.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Relevant certifications in DevOps and related technologies are highly desirable.
• Experience with the Atlassian Tool Suite including Confluence & Jira
• Experience managing systems hosted in virtual environments such as AWS.

🎁 Benefits

The estimated salary range for this position is between $150,000-$200,000 (annualized USD). This range reflects the typical pay for the role and is one part of the company's comprehensive compensation package. Actual salaries are influenced by several factors, such as location, the individual's education, skills, experience, and competencies, as well as contract affordability and organizational needs.

What's in It for You?

• Flexible work environment
• A team mentality – work with friendly, like-minded professionals
• Work with innovative, cutting edge technologies
• Enjoy extremely competitive compensation and benefits
• A work-life balance you can count on
• Opportunities to grow and advance your career on our dime

The Benefits You Get with Freedom

• Amazing benefits including matching 401k, fully paid medical, and more
• Generous paid time off – including paid site closure days
• Competitive salary offerings
• Paid training and tuition reimbursement
• Referral bonuses
• Fully paid life and disability
• Annual logo wear allowance
• Company sponsored events (game nights, holiday party, summer party, happy hours)

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability or veteran status.