Senior DevOps Engineer
Boston, MA
12 Month+ Contract
U.S. Citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time. No Corp to Corp.
Position Overview:
As an Engineer of the DevOps team for a government agency, you will operated the toolchain leveraging established processes and standards. You will help to automate and streamline our engineering operations, troubleshoot and resolve issues in dev, test, and production environments. The team designs, develops, tests and deploys DevOps and DevSecOps tools, services, and solutions as required. Your team is part of the Technical Operations (TechOps) department and has the overall responsibility for the design, management and execution of operations required to support the ongoing technical and delivery needs as well as the transition to production support and operations. This team interfaces with internal stakeholders, customers for planning, delivery, and service management. It owns ongoing ITIL processes, and the implementation and driving of continuous improvement initiatives. You will work closely with Engineers and Architects in order to maintain seamless automation across the entire platform.
The ideal candidate is someone who loves building and maintaining reliable and scalable systems, CI/CD tooling, and automating cloud-based highly available, high performing applications.
What Will Be Expected Of You
- Provide technical functional expertise to the Engineering team.
- Leverage DevOps team best practices.
- Manage code deployments, fixes, updates and related processes.
- Work with open-source technologies as needed.
- Work with GitLab CICD pipelines with AWS.
- Offer technical support where needed, developing automation software for our back-end systems.
- Stay current with industry trends and source new ways for our business to improve.
- Implement, configure, and operate tools and products in the DevOps and DevSecOps Toolchain.
- Building and maintaining tools, services, and automations associated with deployment and our operations platform, ensuring that all meet our customer service standards and reduce errors
- Deploy product updates as required while implementing integrations when they arise.
- Automate our operational processes as needed, with accuracy, and compliant with security standards.
- Support, drive and operate automation in product build and deployment.
Qualifications:
- Extensive knowledge and understanding of working in AWS environments & services.
- Experience supporting infrastructure for large multi-services applications
- Experience working with continuous deployment in micro-services architectures
- Experience working with GitLab CICD pipelines with AWS
- Experience working with Linux and the Linux command line
- Experience developing and maintaining tooling usage documentation and support procedures
- Knowledge of technology project and secure coding standards.
PLEASE NOTE: Position is responsible for 24x7 support for some systems. As such, a DevOps Engineer is required to occasionally work off-hours for maintenance or to resolve technical issues.
- GitLab experience in AWS cloud, experience in AWS GovCloud is a plus.
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, Automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC).
- Server administration certification and experience preferred.