What are the responsibilities and job description for the DevOps Engineer position at SES Corporation?
This role supports the U.S. Air Force Cloud One Architecture and Common Shared Services contract and currently has an opening for a DevOps Engineer. SES is seeking a DevOps Engineer supporting AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle Clouds. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience to modernize a leading, global-scale multi-cloud environment in support of a critical mission, supporting USAF system resiliency, security, and cost effectiveness.
Location: This position required is hybrid with on-site support as needed. Candidate must be within 50 miles of Boston, MA or Huntsville/Montogomery, AL.
Requirements
Candidates for this role should demonstrate working knowledge in the following areas:
Familiarity with networking concepts (subnets, security groups, routing)
SES provides a competitive salary and the following benefits:
Location: This position required is hybrid with on-site support as needed. Candidate must be within 50 miles of Boston, MA or Huntsville/Montogomery, AL.
Requirements
Candidates for this role should demonstrate working knowledge in the following areas:
- AWS Infrastructure Fundamentals
- Understanding of core AWS services (EC2, EBS, VPC, IAM, S3)
Familiarity with networking concepts (subnets, security groups, routing)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Experience writing, modifying, and deploying Terraform configurations
- Ability to troubleshoot failed deployments and configuration issues
- Git-Based Source Control (GitLab Preferred)
- Proficiency with Git workflows (branching, merging, version control)
- Experience working with GitLab or similar platforms
- Ability to manage and review infrastructure code changes
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Understanding of pipeline-based deployments (build, test, deploy stages)
- Experience troubleshooting pipeline failures
- Familiarity with automating infrastructure deployments
- System Administration (Linux/Server Management)
- Basic system administration skills (file systems, services, permissions)
- Experience managing server configurations and performance
- Ability to troubleshoot system-level issues
- Security Hardening & STIG Compliance
- Familiarity with system hardening practices
- Understanding of STIGs or similar security baselines
- Ability to apply and validate secure configurations
- Backup and Recovery Operations
- Understanding of backup strategies and data protection concepts
- Experience verifying backups and performing restore operations
- Awareness of disaster recovery principles
- ServiceNow (Basic Administration)
- General familiarity with ServiceNow platform structure and environments
- Ability to support administrative tasks and environment operations
- Understanding of how platform performance ties to underlying infrastructure
- Troubleshooting & Operational Support
- Ability to diagnose issues across infrastructure, pipelines, and applications
- Strong problem-solving skills across multiple technical layers
- Experience supporting production systems
- Bachelor's and 8 years or more of experience. Additional experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.
- Coding language experience required: C#, .NET, Angular (Javascript)
- Interim Secret clearance required to start; Ability to obtain Secret clearance required to maintain employment
- US citizenship required
- Experience with USAF Cloud One or Platform 1
- ITIL Certification
SES provides a competitive salary and the following benefits:
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- AD&D
- STD
- LTD
- Company paid Life Insurance
- 401k with employer contribution
- Paid Time Off
- Pet Insurance