Senior DevOps Engineer
Company: Metric5
Location: Mc Lean
Posted on: February 16, 2026
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Job Description:
Job Description Job Description Location: Reston, VA – Hybrid
(Approximately 2 days a week in office) *Please note that previous
USCIS clearance is highly preferred* Description Metric5 is
currently seeking a DevOps Engineer to provide support in our Data
Warehouse and Data Lake team in a cloud environment. You will play
a crucial role in designing, implementing, and maintaining the
infrastructure and deployment pipelines for our data processing
systems. You will collaborate closely with stakeholders, data
engineers, data scientists, and other cross-functional teams to
streamline the development, deployment, and operation of data
warehouse and data lake solutions in a cloud-based environment.
Your expertise in cloud technologies, automation, and
infrastructure as code will contribute to the scalability,
reliability, and performance of our data platform. You will support
our EKS platform by developing deploying scripts to deploy docker
images for software need to support our Data Engineers and Data
Scientists. Additionally, you will execute scaling of the EKS
platform while integrating need monitoring, centralized logging,
and security scanning tools. Program Mission The program you will
be supporting has a mission to provide development, security, and
operations (DevSecOps) support to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services (USCIS) with a focus on development, operations, and
modernization of the Agency’s Enterprise Data Warehouse/Data Lake.
The team utilizes open-source, AWS Cloud, and Big Data
technologies, agile project management practices, and modern
DevSecOps delivery to provide the business intelligence support
systems to meet the reporting, data analytics, and machine
learning/artificial intelligence needs critical to USCIS
leadership, data/business analysts, data scientists, and other
decision-makers. Required Skills • 8 years of experience using
CI/CD tools like Gradle, Docker, GitHub, Jenkins, Terraform and
Ansible, to create, manage, and update continuous integration (CI)
/ continuous delivery (CD) pipelines • 8 years of experience with
SonarQube and Nexus • 8 years of experience with at least one
development language such as Java, JavaScript, Python, Scala, etc.
• Takes initiative to solve persistent issues, remove blockers, and
move DevSecOps tasks forward without explicit guidance • 8 years
experience using AWS and Kubernetes • 8 years experience with
Unix/Linux OS including shell scripting, networking, storage and
release management • Experience delivering technical demos and
delivering key updates to stakeholders • Design, develop and
operationalize new processes such as on demand environment
provisioning • Experience in supporting an EKS cluster, deploying
infrastructure as code using and monitoring production platforms •
8 years experience with automating the provisioning and maintenance
for infrastructure • Monitor performance degradations and ongoing
maintenance of AWS Cloud platforms • Participate in the evaluation
of the organization's technology use and needs and recommend
improvements, such as software upgrades • Excellent analytical,
communication and organizational skills • Identify opportunities
for refinement, tools consolidation, and continuous improvement •
Familiarity with GIT and branching strategies • 8 years experience
with various operating platforms, metadata management, and
experience with SQL and ETL • Ability to write complex SQL queries
and scripts • 8 years experience with Data Warehouse/Data Lake ETL
code deployments (repository, folder, workflow and mapping level) •
Self-driven with the ability to adapt quickly, work in a
challenging and fast paced environment within cross-functional
teams, and able to promote creative problem solving within their
team • Knowledge of the Agile framework, including Scrum and
Kanban, and management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence) • Strong
teamwork, coordination, planning and influencing skills Preferred
Skills • Stay abreast of new capabilities offered by open-source
tools and cloud services to provide recommendations proactively and
regularly • Experience with Harness.IO • Experience with Windows
scripting • Experience with Tenable, Grafana, Prometheus, ArgoCD,
New Relic and Splunk (ELK stack) • Experience using tools such as
JUnit, Tomcat, Selenium, etc Education: Bachelor’s degree in a
technical discipline preferred – Computer Science, Mathematics, or
equivalent technical degree, or the equivalent combination of
education, professional training, and/or work experience. Location:
Reston, VA – Hybrid (Approximately 2 days a week in office)
Clearance: Must be a US Citizen and be able to obtain a government
agency Suitability Clearance. USCIS Entry on Duty (EOD) required.
*Please note that previous USCIS clearance is highly preferred*
Salary: $150,000 - $175,000 About Metric5 Metric5 is a small
business with big company benefits. We have a passionate team of
smart, fun, caring professionals, and we are here for the long
haul. Join our growing team in a business where your contributions
make an enormous impact. Our organization offers a comprehensive
employee benefits package, continuous professional development,
with a best in class company culture that is enjoyable to work in
and supports the growth of each of our professionals. Our benefits
include: Health & Dental Insurance with 100% of individual coverage
paid for by the company Vision Insurance Life & Short Term
Disability Insurance 401k with company match (employees are
immediately vested) Paid Vacation 9 Paid Holidays per year (plus 2
paid floating holidays) Parental Leave Employee Bonuses
Professional Development Reimbursement Program Tuition Assistance
Program Metric5 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified
applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard
to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity,
national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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