[Hiring] DevOps Engineer Lead @INDEX ANALYTICS LLC

Role Description

Index Analytics is seeking a DevOps Engineer to design, automate, secure and maintain AWS cloud environments for federal clients. This role provides platform and delivery support throughout the software development lifecycle and partners with application, data, security and product teams to improve deployment reliability, observability and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, or comparable platforms.
• Develop and manage reusable infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent tools.
• Automate build, test, security scanning, deployment, configuration and environment-provisioning processes.
• Operate and maintain AWS infrastructure, including monitoring, patching, backup, recovery, capacity and cost controls.
• Implement logging, monitoring, alerting and observability using CloudWatch, Splunk, New Relic, or comparable tools.
• Integrate code quality, software composition, vulnerability and container scanning into delivery pipelines.
• Support containerized workloads and orchestration platforms where applicable.
• Partner with security teams on architecture reviews, control implementation, assessments, penetration testing and remediation.
• Troubleshoot deployment and production issues, conduct root-cause analysis and maintain operational runbooks.
• Advise Agile teams on automation, tooling, DevSecOps standards and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, or a related discipline and at least five (5) years of relevant IT experience.
• At least two (2) years of hands-on AWS or comparable cloud-platform experience.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, Git-based workflows and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience with Linux, scripting and at least one language such as Python, JavaScript, or Go.
• Working knowledge of cloud architecture, monitoring, logging, security scanning and incident troubleshooting.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience working in Agile delivery teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS certification; experience with Docker, Kubernetes, MLOps, FinOps, or the AWS Well-Architected Framework.