Key skills
KafkaAWSTerraformKubernetesAnsibleECSEKSCloudFormationRDSSQSPostgreSQLMongoDBOracleNew RelicSplunkGitGitHubJiraConfluenceAgileCI/CDMentoringCommunication
About this role
Highlight is seeking a Sr. DevOps Engineer to join their infrastructure team supporting critical systems at USCIS. The role involves mentoring fellow engineers, architecting scalable infrastructure solutions, and tackling complex technical challenges in a collaborative DevOps environment.
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
Requirements:
- 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
- Experience in AWS and its services (EKS, ECS, RDS, SQS, SES)
- Experience in IAC Frameworks like Terraform and/or Cloudformation
- Experience using and implementing Infrastructure As Code
- Experience in containerization best practices
- Experience in Git or alternative source code repositories
- 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!)