Senior DevOps Engineer

Two Six Technologies is a company that builds, deploys, and implements innovative products to solve complex challenges. They are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer who will take ownership of architecting, deploying, and managing AWS-based infrastructure, as well as identifying and resolving system vulnerabilities and performance issues.

Responsibilities:

• Take complete ownership of architecting, deploying, and managing our sophisticated AWS-based infrastructure, including services like EC2, EKS, S3, IAM, Fargate, Lambda, and SQS
• Independently drive and own our entire infrastructure as code strategy, expertly using Terraform and Terragrunt to build and maintain a fully automated environment
• Proactively identify and resolve system vulnerabilities, performance bottlenecks, and reliability risks before they impact production, demonstrating a powerful personal drive to improve the platform
• Develop and maintain robust Ansible playbooks for advanced configuration management and automation, working independently to standardize and secure our systems
• Serve as a key escalation point in an on-call rotation, demonstrating strong ownership during incident response and in conducting post-incident reviews to drive preventative measures
• Manage and maintain the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) to maintain deep visibility into system health, performance, and security
• Define your own project priorities and manage deadlines based on business needs, demonstrating an exceptional level of self-management and initiative
• Deploy and manage containerized applications using Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes (EKS)
• Ensuring test and production environments are secure and meet standards (i.e. FedRAMP, CMMC 2, SOC 2) required by corporate policy or contractual obligation

Requirements:

• Extreme Ownership & Self-Management: You must be a true self-starter, capable of defining your own tasks, managing your time, and delivering results without direct supervision. The ability to take complete ownership of a problem from start to finish is non-negotiable
• Proactive & Independent Problem-Solver: A powerful personal drive to hunt for potential problems and inefficiencies. You don't just fix what's broken; you work independently to seek out opportunities to improve system resilience, performance, and security on your own initiative
• Production-Obsessed Mindset: A deep and personal commitment to production environment reliability, uptime, and performance
• 5+ years of experience in a DevOps role, with a proven track record of working independently and taking ownership of production environments built with AWS, Terraform, and Ansible
• Infrastructure as Code: Deep, hands-on proficiency with Terraform, Terragrunt, and other modern IaC tools
• Compliance as Code: Experience automating evidence collection for FedRAMP, SOC 2 Type II, or similar audits, specifically within AI-integrated CI/CD pipelines
• AIOps: Proven experience leveraging AI-driven operations (AIOps) to automate incident response, perform predictive analysis on system health, and optimize CI/CD pipelines
• Configuration Management: Extensive experience authoring and maintaining and versioning complex Ansible playbooks using tools such as Github
• Cloud Platform (AWS): Expert-level knowledge of AWS services for designing highly available and secure infrastructure (EC2, EKS, S3, IAM, Fargate, etc.)
• Kubernetes: Strong production experience running HA EKS environments
• Monitoring & Logging: Experience with an observability stack using ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
• Containerization and Orchestration: Deep expertise in Docker and hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS) and Helm
• CI/CD and Automation: Extensive experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with tools like Jenkins or GitHub Actions in an automated fashion
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• Eligibility to obtain government clearance if required/needed