OverviewWe are seeking a Sr. DevOps Engineer to join our infrastructure team supporting critical systems at USCIS, where you’ll tackle complex technical challenges and build automated solutions that matter. As a Sr. DevOps Engineer you will mentor fellow engineers, architect scalable infrastructure solutions, and work alongside a collaborative DevOps team supporting 14 development teams. This is an opportunity for a self-motivated engineer who thrives in fast-paced environments and wants to make a meaningful impact on systems that serve thousands of federal workers.
Responsibilities:
- Responding to infrastructure support requests; Triaging and investigating complexities
- Supporting our ecosystem by performing tasks such as Ubuntu hardening, Terraform provisioning, automation via AAP (Ansible Automation Platform) and making updates to address vulnerabilities
- Communicating with peers on issues, following/managing multiple MS Teams threads
- Participating in daily and weekly agile ceremonies including standups, backlog grooming, and retrospectives
- Supporting our ecosystem by performing tasks such as OS (Windows, Ubuntu, or any other Linux systems) hardening, deploying infrastructure with Terraform, Provisioning AMIs, making updates to address vulnerabilities
- May need to support monthly patching on weekends (approx. 2 hours, team members will flex time during week)
- Possession of strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to proactively document knowledge
- Ability to clearly articulate technical solutions to peers
- Ability to work in a high-speed delivery focused environment
- Ability to work on a fully remote team and maintain delivery tempo
- Ability to adapt and learn new technologies quickly
Qualifications:
- Ability to receive DHS EOD suitability
- U.S. Citizenship
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience
- Possession of strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work in a high-speed delivery focused environment
- Ability to work on a fully remote team and maintain delivery tempo
- Ability to learn quickly
- Experience in the following is necessary:
- CI/CD automated pipelines
- AWS and its services (EKS, ECS, RDS, SQS, SES)
- IAC Frameworks like Terraform and/or Cloudformation
- Experience using and implementing Infrastructure As Code
- Containerization best practices
- Git or alternative source code repositories
Secondary Qualifications:
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools including New Relic and Splunk
- Kubernetes or other container orchestration platform experience
- Knowledge of streaming platforms like Kafka
- Database administration experience (PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB)
- Familiarity with JIRA and Confluence
- Active GitHub profile (feel free to share!)
