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title: 'DevOps Engineer 4 at Wyetech'
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# DevOps Engineer 4 at Wyetech

- **Company:** Wyetech
- **Location:** Annapolis Junction, MD
- **Compensation:** $55–$129/hr
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/wyetechllc/ba9e9b66-098e-4ed1-9883-580d308ae451

## Job description

At Wyetech, you’ll be at the center of an award-winning corporate culture, breaking technological barriers and solving real-world problems for our federal government customers. We are committed to hiring the best of the best, and in return, we offer a world-class, truly unique employee experience that is rare within our industry.

Analyze, design, verify, validate, implement, apply, and maintain software systems. Appropriately apply discrete mathematics, probability and statistics, and other relevant topics in computer science and supporting disciplines to complex software systems. Generalize techniques, as appropriate, to apply to multiple domains. Develop and provide appropriate documentation and training. Present briefings and demonstrations to stakeholders

Provide a reliable, highly available platform that orchestrates the microservices of a modernized operational system utilizing cutting edge technologies.

***This position is eligible for a $5k bonus! (Includes 20% SEP IRA contribution)***

Due to federal contract requirements, United States Citizenship and position appropriate security clearance is required. (e.g. Active TS/SCI security clearance with agency appropriate polygraph).

Capabilties

- Extensive experience architecting infrastructure leveraging AWS technologies and services
- Developing Infrastructure As Code (IaC) and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools. Popular programming languages for DevOps engineers include Python, Ansible, and Terraform.
- Strong background in containerization technologies: install, configure, and provide performance tuning utilizing Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, Docker, Docker Compose, etc.
- Perform high-level functional systems analysis, design, integration, documentation, cost analysis, implementation, and complex issue resolutions.
- Cloud infrastructure cost savings: iteratively evaluate costs, recommend cost savings measures, reduce maintenance, and reduce AWS services costs.
- Sprint priority decomposition and ticket generation to align with internal team priorities.
- Manage team tasking and sprint workloads, keeping the team on task and executing in an orchestrated manner.
- Tracking ticket execution while driving technical direction of the infrastructure to align with the program and product needs.
- Managing CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing, and deploying code utilizing GitLab runners and Argo CD.
- Communication and collaboration: Able to communicate and collaborate effectively with other team members, as well as with stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

- TS/SCI with agency appropriate poly
- Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education
- 12 years or more of professional experience; or 10 years of professional experience with a related Masters degree.
- The position allows little to no work from home and will require a significant portion or all work to be performed in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility
- Current CWIP (DoD 8140) certificate.

Desired Technical Skills (Must Have 2 of the Below)

- Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure including but not limited to EC2, Lambdas, S3, SNS, SQS, Event Router, Athena, Step Functions using Terraform and auto scaling.
- Understanding of AWS networking principles to include VPCs, NATs, IP Gateway.
- Develop and manage Gitlab CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment processes
- Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance and reliability.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and ensure system uptime
- Kubernetes experience with a focus on EKS, ECS, and/or Fargate

The Benefits Package

- Wyetech believes in generously supporting employees as they prepare for retirement. The company automatically contributes 20% of each employee's gross compensation to a Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) IRA, with no requirement for employee matching. All contributions are fully vested from day one, ensuring immediate ownership of retirement funds.

Additional benefits include:

- Wyetech provides a generous PTO plan of up to 200 hours annually, aligned with applicable state leave regulations. Employees have the flexibility to adjust their PTO allocation at the start of each calendar year, ensuring it meets their evolving needs.

Full-time employees have the option to participate in a variety of voluntary benefit plans including:

- A Choice of Medical Plan Options, some with Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Vision and Dental
- Life and AD&D Benefits
- Short and Long-Term Disability
- Hospital Indemnity, Accident, and Critical Illness Insurances
- Optional Identity Theft and Legal Protection Services

Company Environment & Perks

- Employee Referral Bonus Eligibility up to $10,000
- Mobility Among Wyetech-supported Contracts
- Various contract and work locations throughout Maryland, Virginia, Colorado, Texas, Utah, Alaska, Hawaii and OCONUS
- Various team-building events throughout the year such as: monthly lunches, summer company picnic, and an annual holiday party.
- Employees receive two complementary branded clothing orders annually.

Wyetech, LLC 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.

Affirmative Action Statement: Wyetech, LLC is committed to the principles of affirmative action in all hiring and employment for minorities, women, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans.

Accommodations: Wyetech, LLC is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible hiring process. If you need any accommodations during the application or interview process, please contact Brittney Wood. at 844-WYETECH x727 or staffing@wyetech.com. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to ensure equal access to all candidates.

## About Wyetech

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Wyetech is a privately held computer engineering services firm that provides high-quality software, systems, and cybersecurity talent to solve the nation’s toughest problems for federal and commercial customers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held)
- **Headquarters**: Odenton, Maryland, United States
- **Founded**: 2007
- **Founders**: Mark Goss

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Software Development, Systems Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Data Analysis, Cybersecurity, Intelligence Analysis (Signals Intelligence, Information Assurance, Computer Network Operations)
- **Target customers**: Federal government (Intelligence Community, Department of Defense) and commercial customers; B2B/Government, primarily cleared contracting.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Engineering happiness for customers, with the happiness shared by our talented workforce.” Also: “To provide the best possible environment for employees to thrive and provide stellar services and solutions for our customers and their respective missions.”

## Products & Services
- **Core Service – Engineering Staffing & Solutions**: Wyetech places highly vetted, quality engineering talent (internal referrals only) on government contracts. Disciplines include Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Data Analysis, and Cyber Security.
- **Proprietary Data Lake Tool – JCRSD**: An internal platform for which Wyetech is building a foundational AI integration framework and agentic platform using Python, Kubernetes, and large language models (LLMs) with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, reusable AI skills, and safety guardrails.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric – Annual Revenue**: USD $20,446,821 (estimated)
- **Key Metric – Total Funding**: Not applicable (private, bootstrapped since founding)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: None publicly listed; primary clients are federal agencies (Intelligence Community, DoD). Notable alumni destinations include BrainTrust Holdings, GliaCell Technologies, Lorica AI, Dragos, Inc., and others.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Headcount growth of +4.5% YoY (29 employees as of latest data)
  - 145 active job postings (though monthly posting trend declined -39.1%)
  - Expanding into AI integration and agentic platforms for existing government contracts
  - Multiple office locations across Maryland, Virginia, Colorado, Texas, Utah, Alaska, Hawaii, and OCONUS

## Competitive Advantages
- **High Quality, Referral-Based Talent Pipeline**: Wyetech only hires through internal referrals and rigorous screening, ensuring a consistently high-caliber workforce that customers recognize.
- **Deep Cleared Talent Pool**: Focus on U.S. Citizenship and active TS/SCI security clearances with polygraph gives them a competitive edge in the cleared government contracting space.
- **Retirement Benefit Uniqueness**: Automatic 20% of gross compensation contributed to a SEP IRA with immediate vesting – an unusually generous benefit in the industry.
- **Small Company Culture, Large Contract Reach**: Ability to support contracts nationwide while maintaining a tight-knit, employee-focused culture.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI Integration & Platform Modernization**: Investing heavily in building foundational AI integration frameworks and agentic platforms for their proprietary JCRSD Data Lake tool, leveraging Python, Kubernetes, and LLMs.
- **Talent Acquisition & Retention**: Continued hiring of cleared engineering talent across multiple disciplines (software, systems, network, cyber) to support growing contract needs.
- **Employee Experience**: Maintaining a “world-class, truly unique employee experience” through competitive benefits, generous PTO (up to 200 hours annually), referral bonuses ($10,000), and frequent team-building events.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture Highlights**: Employee-focused mission (“engineering happiness”), small company feel with strong collaboration; regular team events (monthly lunches, summer picnic, holiday party).
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Hybrid options available (e.g., 1-2 days per week in Columbia, MD for some roles); also supports various contract locations and telework opportunities.
- **Notable Perks**:
  - **Automatic 20% SEP IRA contribution** with no employee match required and immediate vesting
  - Up to 200 hours of PTO per year with flexibility to adjust at start of each year
  - Choice of medical plans (with HSA option), vision, dental, life/AD&D, short/long-term disability
  - Employee referral bonus up to $10,000
  - Two complementary branded clothing orders annually
  - Mobility across contracts and locations
- **Engineering Culture**: Hands-off, innovative environment; engineers build secure, scalable AI frameworks and work with cutting-edge tech (Kubernetes, LLMs, MCP) in a mission-focused context.

## Sources
1. [wyetechllc.com](https://wyetechllc.com/about/)
2. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/wyetech-llc)
3. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/wyetechllc)
4. [scoutify.com](https://scoutify.com/companies/wyetech/)
5. [jobs.lever.co (Sr. Software Engineer posting)](https://jobs.lever.co/wyetechllc/576e7428-a30e-422b-92b6-22c7d0a0ca4f)

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