Overview

REI Systems provides reliable, effective, and innovative technology solutions that advance federal, state, local, and nonprofit missions. Our technologists and consultants are passionate about solving complex challenges that impact millions of lives. We take a Mindful Modernization approach in delivering our application modernization, grants management systems, government data analytics, and advisory services. Mindful Modernization is the REI Way of delivering mission impact by aligning our government customers’ strategic objectives to measurable outcomes through people, processes, and technology. Learn more at REIsystems.com. 

Employees voted REI Systems a Washington Post Top Workplace in 2015, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022!

Responsibilities

Design & Development

• Design, create and maintain CI/CD software delivery pipelines & tools for an enterprise scale system with a large developer base
• Design, create and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) code artifacts
• Design, create and maintain container-based application solutions
• Write and run ad-hoc scripts (using Bash, Python etc) to automate DevOps processes
• Participate in creating long-term and short-term strategies for scaling cloud environments
• Work with development teams to troubleshoot specific issues by recreating tests, validating configuration, etc
• Provide deployment support by deploying applications and microservices in cloud environments
• Advance DevOps processes and technologies using emerging technologies and cloud native tools

Operations

• Adhere to a comprehensive incident management program including problem management. Generate KPIs for service availability, uptime, and adherence to SOPs, and SLAs.
• Maintain, monitor, and help improve the performance and availability of the 24x7 production environment including networks, servers, databases, etc.
• Manage operational maintenance such as OS patches, security vulnerabilities etc to ensure healthy status of various prod and non-prod environments
• Administer network monitoring system, alerting, log management, and other IT systems
• Participate in on-call rotation and provide hands-on support during emergencies, outages, and service transitions
• Improve system visibility and applications with advanced monitoring, metrics and log analytics
• Analyze and identify root causes on critical problems, incident reports and communication

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, especially with Jenkins using Groovy
• Solid understanding of container-based technologies, especially Kubernetes, Docker, AWS EKS, OpenShift
• Solid understanding of microservice concepts
• Expert scripting skills (Bash, Perl, Python)
• Technical knowledge of AWS managed services (VPC, EC2, EKS, RDS), including monitoring and analytics tools such as AWS CloudWatch, NewRelic
• Experience with code management systems (Git, Subversion)
• Experience maintaining Java/Node web applications (Spring Boot, React)
• Keen communication and teamwork abilities

Work Authorization: US citizenship required in order to obtain a DHS Public Trust clearance

Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field with 7plus years of relevant experience.

Location/Remote: Position is currently remote but post-pandemic may require travel to the customer's Washington, DC offices

Covid Policy Disclosure: Should the essential functions of this position require that the employee performing this role work on-site at REI’s Sterling location the following requirements will apply: the individual holding this position must be fully vaccinated, as defined in CDC guidance, as a condition of continued employment. REI will consider requests to be excused from this policy whenever necessary to comply with legal requirements and will consider any requests for reasonable accommodations due to a disability, religion, or other exemptions on an individual basis in accordance with applicable legal requirements. Employees and applicants requesting accommodations should request the accommodation in writing and should explain in detail the reasons why they are seeking an accommodation. REI will request additional information or documentation it deems necessary to inform its decision on an employee’s or applicant’s accommodation request.

EEO Statement: REI Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer (Minority/Female/Disability/Vet)