Sr. DevOps Engineer

Empower AI provides AI and transformation solutions for government agencies. The company is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to support critical USCIS infrastructure, architect scalable solutions, automate deployments, address vulnerabilities, and mentor engineers across a collaborative DevOps team.

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
• 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
• 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!)