AWS DevOps Engineer

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KBR is seeking an AWS DevOps Engineer to design automate secure and operate Amazon Web Services environments supporting mission-critical customer workloads.

This hands-on role works across cloud engineering architecture cybersecurity application development and infrastructure teams to modernize systems and deliver reliable cloud services. The engineer will independently complete assigned work contribute to technical designs and operational decisions own defined technical components and provide guidance to less-experienced engineers.

Key Responsibilities

• Design deploy secure maintain and operate AWS cloud environments.
• Assess applications and infrastructure and recommend appropriate migration and modernization approaches including rehosting replatforming containerization and adoption of cloud-native services.
• Develop reusable Infrastructure as Code modules and deployment patterns using Terraform AWS Cloud Development Kit AWS CloudFormation or comparable tools.
• Develop infrastructure and operational automation using Python Bash PowerShell or similar languages.
• Design maintain and troubleshoot continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines using GitLab GitLab Runners GitHub Actions or comparable platforms.
• Automate build testing security scanning artifact management deployment validation environment promotion and rollback processes.
• Design and support containerized workloads using Docker Kubernetes Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Amazon Elastic Container Service Helm and GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux.
• Implement cloud security controls for identity and access management encryption secrets management network protection vulnerability management logging auditing and least-privilege access.
• Support environments operating under Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Federal Information Security Modernization Act National Institute of Standards and Technology and customer security requirements.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity personnel and system owners on control implementation compliance evidence remediation and continuous monitoring.
• Develop monitoring alerting dashboards service health checks operational runbooks and incident-response procedures.
• Troubleshoot complex cloud infrastructure Linux networking pipeline container and application deployment issues.
• Participate in incident response root-cause analysis corrective actions backup and recovery resilience and disaster-recovery activities.
• Apply FinOps practices to improve resource tagging cost allocation rightsizing scheduling storage use anomaly detection and overall cloud efficiency.
• Create and maintain technical designs architecture diagrams configuration records implementation plans engineering standards and operating procedures.
• Participate in code reviews design reviews technical planning Agile activities and continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Provide technical guidance and knowledge sharing to Associate and less-experienced engineers.
• Use approved Generative AI tools to support infrastructure development pipeline engineering testing documentation troubleshooting and automation while following security and responsible-use requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Engineering Mathematics or a related technical field or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• At least six years of relevant professional experience in cloud engineering DevOps platform engineering systems administration software development infrastructure automation cybersecurity engineering or a related field.
• Hands-on experience designing deploying securing and operating AWS environments supporting production regulated security-sensitive or mission-critical workloads.
• Experience migrating modernizing or supporting applications and infrastructure in AWS.
• Experience with:

• Terraform AWS Cloud Development Kit AWS CloudFormation or comparable Infrastructure as Code technology.

• Python Bash PowerShell Java Go JavaScript or another scripting or programming language.

• Linux administration and troubleshooting.

• Git and source-code management workflows.

• GitLab GitLab Runners GitHub Actions or comparable continuous integration and continuous delivery platforms.

• Automated testing security scanning artifact management deployment automation environment promotion or rollback.

• Docker Kubernetes Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Amazon Elastic Container Service Helm or comparable container technologies.

• Working knowledge of AWS networking identity and access management encryption secrets management logging monitoring and cloud security.
• Familiarity with Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Federal Information Security Modernization Act National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-53 or a comparable security framework.
• Experience with monitoring incident response operational runbooks backup and recovery or disaster-recovery practices.
• Familiarity with cloud cost management resource tagging rightsizing or FinOps principles.
• Ability to independently resolve complex technical issues document findings recommend corrective actions and escalate material risks.
• Ability to review technical work and guide less-experienced engineers.
• Strong written verbal and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• U.S. citizenship is required due to customer and contract requirements. Employment is contingent upon verification of citizenship and satisfaction of applicable customer facility-access background-investigation and contract eligibility requirements.

AWS Certification Requirements

The candidate must hold at least one of the following active certifications at the time of hire:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

• AWS Certified Developer - Associate

• AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner does not satisfy this requirement.

A candidate who does not hold one of these Professional-level certifications at the time of hire must obtain at least one within 12 months of starting the position.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional at the time of hire.
• Additional relevant AWS Professional or Specialty certifications.
• Experience supporting public-sector federal government-contracting or similarly regulated AWS environments.
• Experience administering GitLab Runners and GitLab-based delivery pipelines at scale.
• Experience providing reusable infrastructure modules deployment templates platform services or self-service cloud capabilities to multiple engineering teams.
• Experience integrating AWS with on-premises networks identity services storage platforms security systems or other enterprise infrastructure.
• Experience with advanced FinOps practices such as cost allocation savings mechanisms and cost-anomaly management.
• Experience communicating technical recommendations risks and trade-offs to customers or other stakeholders.

Role Scope

The AWS DevOps Engineer independently delivers assigned engineering work and may own defined services pipelines infrastructure components automation capabilities or technical work packages.

Enterprise architecture decisions authorization decisions major production incidents and large-scale modernization programs remain collaborative responsibilities involving senior engineers architects cybersecurity personnel program leadership and customer stakeholders.

Why Join KBR

At KBR we deliver science technology and engineering solutions supporting important national missions and customer outcomes. As an AWS DevOps Engineer you will help modernize mission-critical systems strengthen secure cloud platforms improve engineering automation and increase the reliability and cost efficiency of cloud services.

You will work with experienced engineers architects cybersecurity professionals application teams and customer stakeholders while expanding your expertise in AWS DevOps Infrastructure as Code containers cybersecurity observability FinOps and AI-augmented engineering.

U.S. Citizenship required

Experience and/or Education in lieu of these qualifications will be reviewed for applicability to meet these requirements.

KBR Benefits:

KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include401K plan with company match medical dental vision life insurance AD&D flexible spending account disability paid time off or flexible work schedule. We support career advancement through professional training and development.

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