Momentum Engineering, Inc. fosters an employee-centric culture. Our strength lies in our people. With a high percentage of employees holding advanced degrees in engineering, computer science, and related disciplines, we bring deep technical expertise to every mission. Our team includes professionals with security clearances and full-scope polygraphs, ensuring trusted, secure support for the most sensitive national security initiatives. Additionally, our workforce is equipped with industry-leading certifications, demonstrating a commitment to continuous learning and excellence. Most importantly, our exceptional employee retention rate reflects a culture of professional growth, mission focus, and dedication—ensuring long-term stability and expertise for our customers’ critical needs.
Job Summary
- Provide a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates the microservices of a modernized operational system utilizing cutting edge technologies.
Primary Responsibilities
- Extensive experience architecting infrastructure leveraging AWS technologies and services
- Developing Infrastructure As Code (IaC) and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools. Popular programming languages for DevOps engineers include Python, Ansible, and Terraform.
- Strong background in containerization technologies: install, configure, and provide performance tuning utilizing Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, Docker, Docker Compose, etc.
- Perform high-level functional systems analysis, design, integration, documentation, cost analysis, implementation, and complex issue resolutions.
- Cloud infrastructure cost savings: iteratively evaluate costs, recommend cost savings measures, reduce maintenance, and reduce AWS services costs.
- Sprint priority decomposition and ticket generation to align with internal team priorities.
- Manage team tasking and sprint workloads, keeping the team on task and executing in an orchestrated manner.
- Tracking ticket execution while driving technical direction of the infrastructure to align with the program and product needs.
- Managing CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing, and deploying code utilizing GitLab runners and Argo CD.
- Communication and collaboration: Able to communicate and collaborate effectively with other team members, as well as with stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
- Must have active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph
- Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education
- 12 years or more of professional experience; or 10 years of professional experience with a related Masters degree.
Desired Qualifications (must meet 2)
- Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure including but not limited to EC2, Lambdas, S3, SNS, SQS, Event Router, Athena, Step Functions using Terraform and auto scaling.
- Understanding of AWS networking principles to include VPCs, NATs, IP Gateway.
- Develop and manage Gitlab CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment processes
- Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance and reliability.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and ensure system uptime
- Kubernetes experience with a focus on EKS, ECS, and/or Fargate
Exempt hourly position. 11 paid holidays, minimum of 3 weeks PTO, company sponsored group medical plan, company paid dental, vision, life insurance, and STD/LTD plans. Salary is dependent upon the candidate’s experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline or equivalent experience/education
- 12+ years professional experience (or 10+ years with related Master's)
- Extensive experience architecting infrastructure leveraging AWS technologies and services
- Infrastructure as Code and scripting experience (Terraform, Ansible, Python)
- Containerization and orchestration experience (Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, Docker, Docker Compose, Fargate)
- CI/CD pipeline management experience (GitLab runners, GitLab CI/CD, Argo CD)
- Experience with cloud cost analysis and cost-saving measures for AWS
- Experience managing sprint workloads, ticketing, and coordinating team tasking
- Design, build, and maintain AWS services (EC2, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, Event Router, Athena, Step Functions) using Terraform and autoscaling
- Understanding of AWS networking (VPCs, NATs, IP Gateway)
- Troubleshoot infrastructure issues; optimize application performance and ensure system uptime
What We Do
Momentum Engineering understands that our customer's unique missions require innovative software solutions and data-driven engineering methodologies. These approaches leverage DevOps principles and cloud-based automation ensuring that applications and systems can be characterized and reliably measured. Our specialists, working as trusted partners to our customers, have been developing, integrating and maintaining data-centric solutions since our founding in February 2015. Momentum Engineering provides highly-skilled System Engineers, Software Engineers, and formally trained Department of Defense Test and Evaluation Subject Matter Experts to our customers to help them move their missions forward.
