Nava is a consultancy and public benefit corporation focused on improving government services. The Senior Infrastructure Engineer will work on cross-functional teams to design and implement scalable infrastructure, ensuring that application development teams can effectively deliver modern user experiences in the cloud.
Responsibilities:
- Dev sec ops (development, security, operations) engineering, to include building infrastructure as code and DevOps pipelines and reviewing solutions built by others on the team
- Researching and analyzing technical solutions
- Maintaining and enhancing documentation using various engineering tools
- Managing integrated systems used by the client
- Completing work received from application teams
- Proactively identifying blockers, risks, and issues, proposing solutions or escalating as appropriate
- Researching, selecting, and creating new automation tools or frameworks
- Implementing automation for a variety of cloud resources
- Designing initial architecture or changes to architecture for a project
- Documenting and communicating architecture, technical solution plans, rollout plans and project updates to stakeholders
- Collaborating with stakeholders to incorporate their feedback
- Identifying stakeholders and obtaining buy-in
- Tracking stakeholders’ technical tasks to keep the project on schedule
- Ensuring any issues or blockers that develop are addressed and resolved
- Identifying gaps and closing them
- Staying ahead of staffing issues, ensuring that hiring through subcontractors is efficient
- Escalating to program manager any concerns raised
- Building client trust by being available as a sounding board for questions or issues
- Performing code and technical reviews
- Facilitating meetings
- Establishing engineering norms and practices and ensuring compliance
- Collaborating with teammates to identify and determine solutions
- Teaching teammates how to manage time, projects and be productive
- Serving in the on call rotation
- Facilitating post-mortems after incidents
- Respond to tickets or routing tickets to the appropriate engineer
- Applying patches and updates to operating systems and libraries
Requirements:
- Minimum of 7 years of experience as an Infrastructure Engineer or mix of Software Engineering
- A Bachelor's Degree (in any discipline) or four years of experience in lieu of a degree
- Experience managing different systems (e.g Windows Server, Linux CLI) and automating repetitive tasks
- Experience training and mentoring engineers
- Scripting (python, Go, Javascript)
- Experience designing CI/CD and other workflow automation spanning multiple systems
- Incident handling and followup (root cause analyses, etc)
- Knowledge of cloud primitives (VPC, ACL, Route Tables, Security Groups, Images)
- Experience running asynchronous jobs, e.g. using services like ECS or Lambda
- Ability to use the command line to achieve practical aims, e.g. navigating the shell; moving and downloading files from external servers; searching and parsing files for information; and running queries
- Advanced ability to contribute and update existing code and/or Infrastructure as Code
- A thoughtful, adaptive, and collaborative mindset/understanding of networks, protocols, and multi-service architectures
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, technical and otherwise
- An interest in and familiarity with one or more of the following areas: Cloud Infrastructure, cloud architecture, IT service management, Unix/Linux, scripting, networking, or security
- Able to follow and establish, when needed, standard operating procedures
- Legal authorization to work in the United States
- Ability to meet any other requirements for government contracts for which candidates are hired
- Work authorization that doesn't require visa sponsorship, now or in the future
- May be subject to a government background check or security clearance, depending on the contract