Senior DevOps Engineer

Role Overview

• Senior DevOps Engineer serves as an experienced individual contributor within a team, with the expectation that you will further develop your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills.
• With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements.
• A Senior DevOps Engineer impacts the long-term goals of the program, while contributing to the development of the programs DevOps and software engineering strategy.
• You may serve as the disciplines primary lead when working with stakeholders and utilize strong influential skills to drive improvements in software engineering processes and practices.
• Strong influential skills to collaborate across teams to consolidate and simplify DevOps tools and services.
• Serves as a mentor to individuals within the team.
• May lead small, less critical, or temporary team structures and projects.
• Presents design documents, system diagrams, etc. to clients, stakeholders, partners, and other engineers.
• Capable of self-directed cloud infrastructure design and pipeline design, including cloud-specific product offerings, and tradeoffs between cost, reliability, and efficiency.
• Builds libraries, modules, and packages for other infrastructure engineers to integrate with their projects.
• Builds cloud infrastructure that supports applications and Improves the broader developer experience for engineers.
• Develops CI/CD processes to help deliver software of higher quality at greater speed.
• Integrates tools to satisfy non-functional requirements such as quality thresholds, security vulnerabilities, and static analysis.
• Builds specific application test and deployment pipelines using automated tooling such as Jenkins, Github Actions, Circle CI, Gitlab CI.
• Proactively works with our government partners and app teams to ensure that we are shipping software that meets security, SLA, and performance requirements.
• Participates in technical depth interviews with new candidates.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree with 3+ years of relevant experience (or 7+ years of total relevant experience in lieu of a degree).
• Proven expertise in test development, monitoring/instrumentation, analytics, and deployment pipeline optimization.
• Demonstrated ability to enhance the developer experience by automating release processes and building modern development tools.
• Hands-on experience deploying, managing, or migrating applications within AWS or cloud.gov (Preferred).
• Experience navigating federal compliance frameworks (e.g., FedRAMP, ATO processes) alongside government partners (Preferred).
• Familiarity with JavaScript, Node.js, Postgres, and observability tooling (Preferred).

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Cloud
• JavaScript
• Jenkins
• Node.js
• Postgres

Benefits

• Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible PTO
• 401K with employer match
• Paid parental leave after one year of service
• Employee Assistance Program