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ICF

Lead DevOps Engineer

ICF

. Own the architecture and day-to-day operation of multi-account AWS environments across development, QA, staging, and production .

Posted 9/25/2026full-timeRemote • Virginia • United StatesSenior💰 $131,256 - $223,134 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSCloudGrafanaGraphQLJavaKubernetesLinuxMavenMS SQL ServerPrometheusSpringSpring BootSpringBootSQLTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own the architecture and day-to-day operation of multi-account AWS environments across development, QA, staging, and production
  • Develop and maintain reusable Terraform modules and Terragrunt environment configurations
  • Administer Amazon EKS Auto Mode and Kubernetes resources using Helm, Argo CD, and ApplicationSets
  • Support GitOps controllers and Kubernetes infrastructure automation
  • Build and maintain GitHub Actions workflows, AWS OIDC authentication, self-hosted runners, container-image pipelines, environment promotion, deployment approvals, and rollback procedures
  • Operate Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon RDS, including backups, recovery, monitoring, and AWS DMS migration workflows
  • Implement security and audit controls using AWS security services and centralized logging
  • Build and maintain observability with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, dashboards, metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and service-level objectives
  • Partner with developers to review and troubleshoot Java and Spring Boot services
  • Integrate application and supply-chain security into delivery pipelines
  • Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, disaster-recovery exercises, infrastructure upgrades, cost optimization, architecture documentation, operational runbooks, and knowledge transfer

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
  • 8+ years of DevOps, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or site reliability experience
  • 5+ years of experience operating production workloads on AWS
  • 5+ years of experience with Terraform and infrastructure as code (IaC)
  • 4+ years of experience administering production Kubernetes environments, including Amazon EKS, Helm, ingress, RBAC, secrets, upgrades, observability, and GitOps delivery with Argo CD or comparable platform
  • 3+ years of experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions or comparable platform
  • Strong Linux, scripting, AWS networking, IAM, troubleshooting, and incident-response skills
  • Must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident per contract requirements
  • Experience with Terragrunt, EKS Auto Mode, AWS Pod Identity, Argo CD ApplicationSets, AWS Controllers for Kubernetes, or Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator
  • Experience operating Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon RDS and supporting AWS DMS, backup and restore, disaster recovery, and database performance monitoring
  • Experience with CloudFront, Route 53, ACM, Cognito, SQS, SNS, SES, Secrets Manager, S3, ECR, and cross-account AWS access patterns
  • Experience implementing observability with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, centralized logging, alerting, and service-level objectives
  • Experience implementing SAST with SonarQube, DAST, software composition analysis, container scanning, SBOMs, and policy-based release gates
  • Hands-on experience reviewing and troubleshooting Java and Spring Boot applications, including REST or GraphQL APIs, Maven, JVM diagnostics, database connection pools, and containerized deployments

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Reasonable accommodations for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs
  • Confidential accommodation support
  • Benefit offerings referenced through Transparency in Coverage Act