Infrastructure Engineer

Job overview

The Infrastructure Engineer role is onsite in Herndon, VA. Compensation is $131,644–$190,789 per year. The role supports NS2 Mission’s high-volume, mission-critical data operations and distributed applications. The engineer designs and maintains scalable cloud infrastructure, automates deployments, and improves reliability and availability. Collaboration with software, platform, and DevOps teams helps keep data-intensive services secure, observable, and resilient.

What you'll do

• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable infrastructure
• manage Kubernetes environments
• build AWS infrastructure using EKS, EC2, and S3
• automate provisioning with Terraform
• develop routing and DNS solutions
• support RabbitMQ and Kafka
• implement monitoring, logging, and alerting
• support CI/CD
• troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues
• contribute to incident response, root-cause analysis, and platform optimization.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

infrastructure engineer

herndon va

cloud engineering

kubernetes

aws

terraform

infrastructure as code

rabbitmq

kafka

grafana

ts/sci fsp

$131,644–$190,789/year

ns2 mission

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Benefits package described as supporting employees and families
• details are provided through the employer’s benefits information.

Why this role

Position requires TS/SCI FSP clearance; the posting notes that many roles require the ability to obtain or maintain a U.S. security clearance.

About the employer

NS2 Mission is hiring for this role. Industry: Computer Systems Design Services. Sector: 54.