AWS GovCloud DevOps Engineer — 2-Week Sprint, FT on Award
JOB DESCRIPTION ABOUT THE FOUNDER AND HOW WE RUN RPR Technologies is led by an Army 11B airborne combat veteran who is also a deeply technical operator. The 2-week sprint to 1 June go-live runs as a battle drill — clear objective, defined endstate, rehearsed sequence, every team member knows their lane and the lanes adjacent to theirs. Tempo is high, communication is direct, and the standard is operational readiness on demo day. If you've worked under a former military technical lead before, you know the rhythm. If you haven't, the working environment is precise, fast, no-BS, no politics, no wasted motion. Mistakes are surfaced early and fixed; effort is recognized; performance is the currency. ENGAGEMENT CONTEXT — PLEASE READ BEFORE APPLYING This is pre-contract-award work. RPR Technologies is staffing a burst engineering bench for a Step 2 demonstration of a federal Unified Communications opportunity.
- Approximately 2-week sprint leading to 1 June 2026 go-live
- $50/hr flat rate for the sprint, 1099 contract
- Contract only, non-cleared, US-person, US-based. No active clearance required.
- Estimated 80-100 hours across the sprint IF RPR IS AWARDED THE CONTRACT FOLLOWING THE DEMONSTRATION
- Role converts to full-time for the duration of the contract (multi-year, with option years)
- Conversion compensation negotiated at award at market rates for the role and location
- Both 1099 contract and W-2 employment paths available depending on candidate preference If RPR is not awarded, the engagement ends at sprint completion with no further commitment from either party. This is a tryout structure for engineers who want a path to full-time federal program work. WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR RPR is built on four core values — hungry, intelligent, collegial, honest. We hire to those traits before we hire to credentials.
- Hungry — you ship under deadline pressure without being managed step-by-step
- Intelligent — deep technical depth in your lane, plus the judgment to know when to ask, when to decide, and when to escalate
- Collegial — you work well with engineers in adjacent lanes, share context generously, don't build walls around your work
- Honest — you tell us what you don't know, you flag risks early, you don't overclaim experience, you don't cut corners we haven't agreed to cut SCOPE OF WORK
- Operate AWS GovCloud EKS demonstration cluster
- Deploy and maintain Big Bang components (Iron Bank containers, Flux GitOps, hardened ingress)
- Stand up identity, audit, and orchestration services that integrate the broader UC vendor stack
- Support live demonstration window REQUIRED
- AWS GovCloud production deployment experience
- Kubernetes / EKS fluency at deployment-engineer depth
- Platform One Big Bang or directly comparable DoD DevSecOps platform exposure
- Iron Bank or hardened container background
- Strong GitOps and CI/CD discipline NICE TO HAVE
- Continuous ATO process exposure
- Keycloak / OIDC / SAML identity federation
- Prior DoD Impact Level 4 or 5 environment experience ENGAGEMENT DETAILS
- 1099 contract
- Approximately 80-100 hours across the 2-week sprint
- Remote
- Sprint window mid-May 2026 through 1 June 2026 SKILLS AWS GovCloud, Kubernetes, DevSecOps, GitOps, Amazon EKS Pay From $50.00 per hour Application Question(s)
- Have you operated AWS GovCloud production workloads on EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)?
- Have you worked with Platform One Big Bang or Iron Bank-hardened containers in a production DoD or federal environment?
- Are you available for a focused 2-week sprint engagement from mid-May 2026 through 1 June 2026? Work Location Remote Apply To this Job