Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Software)

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