Senior DevOps Engineer

Akkodis is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer for a Contract with a client in Reston, VA (Remote). The ideal candidate must have strong hands-on AWS and Kubernetes expertise while driving pipeline standardization, implementing progressive delivery strategies, and ensuring secure, high-quality software releases.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines across AWS and on-prem environments using GitHub Actions and automation tools
• Manage containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS/on-prem), ensuring efficient deployment, scaling, and security
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and management using AWS services and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Integrate automated testing, security scanning, and quality gates into pipelines to ensure safe and reliable releases
• Implement observability practices including logging, monitoring, and alerting using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and CloudWatch
• Enforce security, compliance, and secrets management standards while supporting release strategies like canary, blue-green deployments, and automated rollback

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field
• 8–10+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD platform engineering
• Strong expertise in AWS services, Kubernetes, Docker, and building CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions in hybrid (cloud + on-prem) environments
• Proven experience in implementing automation, observability, security practices, and progressive delivery strategies (canary, blue-green, automated rollback) for reliable production systems