Senior DevOps Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Design, automate, secure, and support AWS cloud infrastructure and software delivery pipelines for a critical application within the Department of Veterans Affairs.

• Provide high-level technical expertise in infrastructure as code, CI/CD processes, controlled deployments, system reliability, troubleshooting in production, and adherence to federal security standards.

• Collaborate with development, quality assurance, security, and operations teams to ensure dependable and compliant software releases.

• Engineer and maintain reusable Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for source validation, builds, automated testing, security scanning, containerization, artifact promotion, and deployment tasks.

• Oversee releases across DEV, DEV2, TEST, MVC, PREPROD, and PROD environments.

• Provision and manage AWS infrastructure and Amazon ECS services using CloudFormation and other Infrastructure as Code tools.

• Configure IAM, VPCs, subnets, security groups, load balancers, target groups, resource sizing, and health checks.

• Build, tag, publish, and promote Docker images through Amazon ECR while ensuring artifact traceability.

• Automate builds, dependency management, linting, caching, and security checks for Java/Maven API and Node.js/npm applications.

• Lead release and change controls, production deployments, quality checks, maintenance windows, and communication with stakeholders.

• Diagnose and resolve intricate issues related to pipelines, AWS, networking, IAM, dependencies, configurations, and production environments.

• Support disaster recovery planning, testing, and ongoing management of environments.

• Integrate AWS Inspector, GuardDuty, and dependency scanning into DevSecOps workflows.

• Identify, evaluate, and address vulnerabilities, threats, and configuration risks.

• Implement system hardening in accordance with applicable STIGs and support security policies, procedures, and controls.

• Assist with VA ATO activities, SSPs, NIST/FISMA compliance, security control assessments, contingency planning, and continuous monitoring.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of experience with a BS/BA; at least 6 years with an MS/MA; a minimum of 3 years with a PhD; or 12 years with a high school diploma.

• Hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure.

• Active AWS Associate-level certification.

• Understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

• Practical administration of Linux servers, preferably Ubuntu.

• Experience in scripting and automating patching, backups, logging, key management, and system hardening tasks.

• Familiarity with AWS storage solutions, including S3, EBS, incremental snapshots, and AMI management.

• Experience in cloud networking and connectivity, load balancing, and Auto Scaling.

• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD tools, such as Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins.

• Ability to obtain a VA Public Trust clearance.

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or Green Card holder.

• Residing in the United States for a minimum of three years.

• Experience with AWS services including EC2, ECS, ECR, S3, EBS, EFS, ALB, CloudFront, CloudTrail, EventBridge, IAM, and cloud networking.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes.

• Experience with web and application servers, load balancers, web application firewalls, and container deployments.

• Familiarity with Jira Cloud, Confluence, Slack, Agile methodologies, release governance, and change management processes.

• Strong communication skills with VA stakeholders, program/project managers, technical leads, architects, security teams, and application developers.

• Ability to solve problems independently, exercise sound judgment, manage risks, and demonstrate organizational skills, attention to detail, and accountability for delivery.

• Effective collaboration across teams and adaptability to evolving priorities and technical requirements.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• Life insurance.

• Health savings account.

• Short-term disability.

• Long-term disability.

• Employee assistance program (EAP).

• Parental leave.

• 401(k) plan.

• Paid time off (PTO) for vacation.

• Company-paid holidays.

• Potential for overtime eligibility.

• Possible shift differential.

• Eligibility for discretionary bonuses.