eSimplicity is a modern digital services company that partners with government agencies to improve the lives of all Americans. They are seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to develop, implement, and maintain cloud-based solutions while ensuring the security and high availability of cloud infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
- Works with engineering team to develop, implement, optimize, and maintain cloud-based solutions
- Responsible for deploying and debugging cloud stacks, coordinating with teams on cloud initiatives, and ensuring the security of the cloud infrastructure
- Implementation and administrative (patching/maintenance/configuration etc.) support to all AWS services, addressing issues, and supporting activities needed to maintain the Cloud AWS environment, such as user access/security/release/schedules management
- Manages cloud-based infrastructure (IaC) and services, using industry leading practices (automation techniques) to assure smooth application integration across the entire architecture
- Implements and administers a CICD (Devops) pipeline for all systems, software, services, and infrastructure i.e. any project deliverables adopting hyper-automation techniques and mindset
- Uses quality and security gates to manage CICD pipeline decision points to proceed from start to finish
- Troubleshoot identity management and authentication issues and provide resolution
- Ensures smooth operation of all systems, services, software and infrastructure through appropriate management, patching, preventative maintenance, monitoring, alerting, and real-time remediation of any discovered issues
- Serves as the engineer of complex technology implementations in a product-centric environment
- Conducts research, designs, and creates prototypes of new solutions to facilitate application growth and a seamless customer experience
- Identifies weaknesses in our tooling that will drive changes to the overall architecture, and work as a liaison to development, operations teams, and other stakeholder groups
- Works tirelessly to arm developers with the best tools and ensure system uptime and performance
- Works as part of an integrated project agile team, supporting daily operational incidents, change, and problem management cases
- Provides on-call support, develops full production support processes, documentation, and operations plan, including monitoring/alerting solutions
- Provides user access/security/release/schedules management
- Follows established Industry/Agency standards for implementing Cloud configurations, Architecture and Security
Requirements:
- Two (2) years of professional experience in a related role
- Must have related experience for government, as a contractor or government employee. Direct experience with the Department of State is a plus
- Must be a United States citizen
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance and currently reside in the United States
- Experience in Administrating and Securing Cloud environments, such as AWS
- Experience using Gitlab and CI/CD platforms to deliver safe releases at a rapid rate
- Knowledge of Cloud components such as DevOps scripts, S3 access management, and application configuration
- Knowledge of Cloud tools and platforms such as Redis, K8s, Terraform, and Docker
- Excellent investigative skills to find root cause for e.g. AWS Cloud problems, and unique problems that may extend beyond the typical DevOps arena, to perform impact analysis and/or solutions
- Experience with Atlassian Jira/Confluence
- Strong documentation and problem-solving skills
- Strong verbal and nonverbal communication skills
- Ability to identify and create detailed requirements
- Comfortable with bridging the gap between legacy development or operations teams and working toward a shared culture and vision