About the position
TekSynap is seeking members for an Agile service contract. To meet strategic goals and operational needs, specialized Agile teams are needed to focus on Data Engineering, Data Standards, Core Services, and Enterprise Tools support. This contract is for Agile teams to advance the organization's Enterprise Services capabilities, focusing on delivering secure, scalable, and high-quality solutions that meet evolving business needs. Agile teams will be responsible for understanding complex technical and organizational requirements, then translating them into innovative, efficient solutions that align with enterprise standards and promote seamless integration across various systems. Following the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Agile methodology, the teams will ensure a continuous delivery model that meets rigorous standards of security, scalability, and reliability. Agile teams will bring expertise across essential domains, including data engineering and standards, software development, and enterprise tool support, ensuring comprehensive capabilities to meet the diverse technical and operational needs of the government customer.
Responsibilities
- Provides analysis, design, and integration support for infrastructure systems, including cloud-based services like AWS or Azure for hosting enterprise offerings (e.g., Atlassian Suite).
- Develops and implements strategies for automating deployments using IaC tools such as Ansible, Packer, and AWS CloudFormation.
- Designs and manages cloud environments, including EC2, S3, RDS, VPCs, Lambda, IAM, and other AWS services to ensure optimal performance, security, and scalability.
- Implements CI/CD pipelines and integrates with services like Bamboo to streamline workflows, accelerate software delivery, and ensure consistent configuration management across environments.
- Monitors and manages cloud infrastructure using tools like AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Splunk, Prometheus, and Grafana to ensure high performance, availability, and uptime.
- Applies security best practices to infrastructure, including secure access controls, data encryption, and integration with AWS services to safeguard systems from unauthorized access and vulnerabilities.
- Works with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker) and orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, ECS) to scale and manage resource-intensive tasks effectively.
- Performs systems engineering studies and analyses, ensuring infrastructure systems meet business and operational requirements.
- Assesses and recommends new technologies, tools, and processes to improve system performance, security, and efficiency.
- Provides technical support for troubleshooting system issues and ensures corrective actions are taken to maintain system reliability.
- Experience working in an Agile organization using Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Confluence, and SAFe.
- Provide team specific training as needed.
Requirements
- Active Secret Clearance or higher
- 5 or more years of experience in related field
Nice-to-haves
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, preferred.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401K
- Life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability plans
- Vacation time and holidays
