Sr DevOps Engineer

Title: DevOps Engineer Graph Platform
Location: Rockville MD OR Tysons VA (Hybrid 3 Days onsite a week)
Employment Type: 12 Month Contract

The Graph Platform team is seeking an experienced DevOps engineer to help build and maintain enterprise-grade graph database infrastructure delivered as a service to the *** enterprise. Our platform enables data scientists analysts and investigators to leverage graph technology for advanced analytics AI/ML applications and complex relationship analysis.

Scope & Impact:
Manage platform infrastructure serving multiple internal teams with sensitive financial regulatory data
Drive both greenfield feature development and production incident response
Own multi-environment deployment pipelines and strategies
Balance security and compliance with platform usability and developer experience
Author detailed technical reviews and architecture documentation.

Required Skills:
8 years of DevOps experience in AWS including S3 EC2/Fargate Lambda EMR CloudFormation
Proven ability to deliver software-defined infrastructure automated event handling system-health dashboards and CI/CD patterns for Jenkins and GitLab
5 years of hands-on experience in Shell scripting Python/Scala Groovy
Experience creating dashboards using Splunk GrafanaPrometheus or similar monitoring and observability tools
Familiarity and comfort working in Agile software delivery environments
Strong understanding of fundamental design principles for building modular scalable and resilient platforms
Knowledge of secure coding principles and standards
Experience hosting and managing clustered Neo4j deployments across multiple environments
Understanding of infrastructure requirements for graph-powered AI applications including RAG pipelines and knowledge graphs
AWS Certifications.