Lead devOps Engineer

Tria Federal is a company that delivers digital services and technology solutions supporting the health and safety of veterans, service members, and civilians. They are seeking a highly skilled Lead DevOps Engineer to be part of a collaborative team that delivers virtual infrastructure for health IT solutions, requiring strong experience in AWS, Terraform, and Windows Server.

Responsibilities:

• Use our company’s cloud-based performance management software updates function to get weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly, or monthly updates from each direct report
• Manage Team availability on your program
• Enforce the Cloud Practice SOP (standard operating procedures)
• Be the example by modeling what you want from your Staff
• Work Jira/Kanban board tickets; at least 75% of your job is to be technically hands-on
• Help your staff grow; pick someone on the team to mentor and assign staff to mentor other staff
• Be available for all customer calls
• Follow up with your staff to make sure everything is going well, and tasks are getting completed in a timely manner, address injections as they arise
• Make sure all work has a Jira ticket assigned to it
• Make sure all work you and your staff does is well documented, and PRs/Commits are attached to Jira tickets
• Uphold the Customer SLA, remember as people managers we are responsible for the work and performance of those who report to us
• Respond to emails and slack messages quickly, if you're in a meeting, have slack represent that and check your messages as soon as it's over
• Have a reoccurring productive and meaningful standup aligned with Kanban workflow, record it, make sure everyone attends
• Represent your team to the customer
• Report performance issues to the practice leadership as soon as they happen
• Make sure all staff are on any all hands calls
• Report all good news and wins back to the practice
• Report program issues, failures immediately to practice leadership
• Contribute and help other teams and encourage your staff to do the same
• Share your work with the practice
• Help grow and mature the practice

Requirements:

• Ability to obtain a U.S. Federal Position of Trust clearance designation
• Must reside in and be able to perform work in the United States
• Must have lived in the United States for 3 of the last 5 years
• Bachelor's degree is required
• Lead level experience with at least 8+ years of overall experience in all the required skills
• 6 or more years of experience working with Kanban and agile tools like Jira, Git, and Confluence
• 8 or more years of hands-on experience with orchestration tools such as terraform
• Strong hands-on experience with Windows Server administration (2019/2022), including IIS configuration, Windows services, Active Directory integration, and Group Policy management
• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for .NET applications (ASP.NET, .NET 4.x, 8+) and Node.js applications deployed to AWS ECS and Lambda
• Proven experience with AWS ECS (Fargate and EC2 launch types), including service definitions, task definitions, load balancer integration, auto-scaling, and blue/green deployments
• Hands-on experience with AWS Lambda functions using Node.js and/or Go Lang, including event-driven architectures, API Gateway integration, and Step Functions orchestration
• Experience deploying, configuring, and maintaining Apache NiFi data flow pipelines for healthcare data integration, including dataflow versioning with NiFi Registry
• Proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code across AWS services including ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, RDS, VPC networking, IAM, etc
• Strong PowerShell and Bash scripting skills for automation of Windows and Linux administration tasks, deployment workflows, and operational runbooks
• Demonstrated experience leading a DevOps or platform engineering team of at least 2 direct reports, with accountability for team deliverables, performance, and professional growth
• Proven ability to manage work using Kanban methodology, including maintaining Kanban boards, enforcing WIP limits, tracking cycle time and throughput metrics, and driving continuous improvement
• Experience mentoring and growing engineering staff, including establishing technical standards, conducting code reviews, and building a culture of accountability and continuous learning
• Strong customer-facing communication skills with experience representing technical teams to federal program stakeholders, managing expectations, and upholding SLAs
• Track record of balancing hands-on technical work (at least 75% of role) with people management responsibilities, including performance management and corrective action when needed
• Someone with experience with tools such as Jenkins to enable CI/CD
• Recent hands-on experience with AWS
• Strong experience with Windows Server environments (2019/2022) and solid understanding of Linux Systems (CentOS, RedHat, Amazon Linux), hosts, networks, security, applications, and proficiency in shell scripting and PowerShell
• Strong experience with containerization, particularly with ECS (Fargate and EC2 launch types), including deploying .NET and Node.js workloads to ECS
• Strong understanding of Zero Trust Architecture
• Solid understanding and proven experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform, Containerization, and data integration tools such as Apache NiFi
• Believes in automation for consistent, scalable and fool-proof delivery of infrastructure and applications
• Support production issues/high severity issues on weekends or off hours as required
• Experience managing and mentoring staff, managing expectations and prioritization of work
• Ability to balance many priorities and directions at once and keep the team focused and on schedule
• Experience working day to day tasks while also innovating to make sure the team not only supports the program but actively innovates to make it better
• Experience in working as DevOps leader focusing on CI/CD and CM tools and modern frameworks including .NET, Node.js, and serverless architectures in the ecosystem
• Solid hands-on experience with working on AWS
• Strong experience with serverless resources, particularly AWS Lambda (Node.js and .NET runtimes), API Gateway, and CloudFront
• Solid expertise troubleshooting and managing both Windows Server and Linux systems. Hands-on experience in using Ansible, PowerShell, or Python
• Experience with Splunk is a plus
• Candidates with proven certifications and socially accessible profiles that demonstrate the body of work and participation in modern collaboration hubs
• A great team player and genuinely believes in solving challenges as a team
• Willing to learn new technologies and methodologies quickly
• Explores alternatives and quickly prototyping to validate hypothetical architectures or solutions
• Strong understanding of Kanban methodology and the core tenets of agile both in letter and spirit, with demonstrated experience running Kanban boards and managing WIP limits
• Experience communicating with customers, specifically in the public sector
• Desires to continuously learn and invest time expanding credentials relevant to role and customers
• Demonstrated ability come up with System designs, architecture, process flows and Concept of Operations for large complex systems
• Should have an AWS Professional certification or be ready to obtain a certification within 60 days from the date of joining
• Knowledge of Healthcare, Medicare and Medicaid systems and data is a plus
• Please provide any code in GitHub or such that you have worked on personally or in the open-source community