Lead DevOps Engineer (Remote US)

The Work: ICF is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to own and evolve cloud platforms that support modern enterprise applications. The role will operate multi-account AWS environments strengthen infrastructure automation and GitOps delivery and partner with application security database and enterprise cloud teams to provide secure observable and recoverable services.

Job Location: This position requires that the job be performed in the United States. If you accept this position you should note that ICF monitors employee work locations blocks access from foreign locations and foreign IP addresses and prohibits personal VPN connections.

What You Will Do:

• Own the architecture and day-to-day operation of multi-account AWS environments across development QA staging and production including VPC IAM EKS Elastic Load Balancing CloudFront Route 53 ACM S3 and ECR.
• Develop and maintain reusable Terraform modules and Terragrunt environment configurations including remote state stack dependencies drift detection change planning approvals imports and recovery procedures.
• Administer Amazon EKS Auto Mode and Kubernetes resources using Helm Argo CD and ApplicationSets; manage upgrades access capacity ingress secrets and workload reliability.
• Support GitOps controllers and Kubernetes infrastructure automation including AWS Controllers for Kubernetes and Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator and resolve reconciliation ownership and lifecycle failures.
• 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 parameter and option groups backups snapshots point-in-time recovery restore testing Performance Insights CloudWatch monitoring and AWS DMS migration workflows.
• Implement security and audit controls using IAM KMS Secrets Manager AWS Config CloudTrail GuardDuty Security Hub Inspector WAF security groups and centralized logging.
• Build and maintain observability using Prometheus Grafana Amazon CloudWatch OpenTelemetry and AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry with actionable dashboards metrics logs traces alerts and service-level objectives.
• Partner with developers to review and troubleshoot Java and Spring Boot services including application startup JVM performance API behavior configuration database connectivity and container or Kubernetes deployment failures; use logs metrics and traces to distinguish application defects from infrastructure issues.
• Integrate application and supply-chain security into delivery pipelines including SAST with SonarQube DAST software composition analysis container-image scanning dependency checks and release quality gates.
• Lead incident response root-cause analysis disaster-recovery exercises infrastructure upgrades cost optimization architecture documentation operational runbooks and knowledge transfer.

What You Will Bring With You:

• Bachelors 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 including 5 years of experience operating production workloads on AWS.
• 5 years of experience with Terraform and infrastructure as code (IaC) including reusable modules remote state imports drift reconciliation and automated plan and apply workflows
• 4 years of experience administering production Kubernetes environments including Amazon EKS Helm ingress RBAC secrets upgrades observability and GitOps delivery with Argo CD or a comparable platform.
• 3 years of experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions or a comparable platform plus strong Linux scripting AWS networking IAM troubleshooting and incident-response skills.
• Must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident per contract requirements.

What We Would Like You To Bring With You:

• Experience taking ownership of and improving an existing production cloud platform including its architecture automation reliability security and operational practices.
• Hands-on 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.

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