Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer

Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help government agencies deliver better public services. As a DevOps Engineer, you will work closely with developers throughout the software development life cycle, ensuring reliable code releases while maintaining compliance with federal security standards.

Responsibilities:

• Engineer a great experience for developers working in web-based environments through automation, virtualization, and process improvement
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that let the team reliably and repeatedly release to production on demand
• Manage cloud infrastructure and create and maintain infrastructure as code, standardizing deployment processes
• Protect sensitive data by applying security and privacy best practices, conducting audits and risk analyses, and planning and implementing remediations that meet federal security standards
• Achieve technical excellence by advocating for and adhering to lean-agile engineering practices such as simple design and automated testing
• Build up the organization’s engineering capacity through coaching, knowledge sharing, and other enablement practices

Requirements:

• Understand the general concepts of modern software development and can work closely with software engineers
• Able to work in a cloud-centric world, including managing disparate, interconnected systems and ensuring their availability, reliability, and resiliency
• Can enable teams to deliver value to users and the business continuously (e.g., CI/CD pipelines)
• Know how to build secure, compliant applications and defend against common vulnerabilities
• Can work with software engineers to instrument applications and configure infrastructure for monitoring, metrics, alerting, logging, auditability, and compliance
• Know how to create and maintain infrastructure as code and standardize deployment processes
• Experience mentoring engineers and raising the operational bar across a team or product (staff level)
• Ability to work successfully within a professional services environment (e.g., can communicate effectively with clients)
• Passionate about creating better public outcomes through great government services
• A mindset and work approach that aligns with our core values
• Ability to travel for work from time to time
• All work must be conducted within the U.S., excluding U.S. territories. Some federal contracts require U.S. citizenship to be eligible for employment
• You must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future without sponsorship
• As a government contractor, you may be required to obtain a public trust or security clearance
• You may be required to complete a company background check successfully
• Some of our available roles are on federal contracts that require a degree or additional years of experience as a substitute
• Experience working in regulated or compliance-driven environments (e.g., FedRAMP, FISMA)
• Experience with AWS GovCloud or other government cloud environments
• Experience supporting systems that handle sensitive personal data (e.g., tax, financial, or benefits information)
• Prior experience working in the civic tech space
• Experience working in a remote-team environment