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Our technologists and consultants are passionate about solving complex challenges that impact millions of lives. We take a Mindful Modernization® approach in delivering our services, including application modernization, grants management, case management systems, government data analytics, and advisory services. This approach, the REI Way, ensures mission impact by aligning our clients' strategic objectives with measurable outcomes through people, processes, and technology. We offer the same commitment to our employees by providing professional development, meaningful projects, and flexibility to spend time with family and friends. We believe employees are at their best when fulfilled in both their professional careers and their personal lives. Learn more at www.REIsystems.com. Employees voted REI Systems a Washington Post Top Workplace in 2015, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025!\nResponsibilities\nSenior DevOps Engineer\nREI Systems is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead the design, implementation, automation, and operation of enterprise-scale cloud environments and software delivery platforms supporting mission-critical federal applications.\nThis individual will serve as a senior technical contributor and work closely with software engineering, infrastructure, security, architecture, and operations teams to design and optimize CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, container platforms, Infrastructure as Code, automation, observability, and production operations.\nThe ideal candidate brings extensive hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, scripting, monitoring, production operations, and cloud-native architectures and can independently troubleshoot complex application and infrastructure issues.\nDevOps 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performance, and operational efficiency.\nEvaluate and implement emerging DevOps, cloud-native, containerization, and automation technologies.\nProvide technical guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level DevOps engineers.\nProduction Operations & Reliability\nEnsure the availability, reliability, scalability, and performance of 24x7 production and non-production environments.\nLead technical response and troubleshooting efforts during complex production incidents and outages.\nPerform and facilitate root cause analysis (RCA) and develop corrective and preventative actions.\nDesign and improve monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability capabilities across cloud and application environments.\nAnalyze application, infrastructure, network, and system performance to proactively identify reliability and capacity issues.\nDefine and track operational KPIs related to availability, uptime, SLA performance, incidents, capacity, and system health.\nLead or oversee operational 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