Devops Engineer

The role of DevOps Engineer 3 will require you to support and participate in the development of solutions that are highly innovative, achieved through research and integration of best practices, and to influence the development of solutions that impact strategic project and/or program goals. You will participate in the resolution of complex problems using the application of your technical knowledge through conceptualization, logical deduction, and the interpretation of test results. You will also be required to document and illustrate use of technical methods for your peers’ development and cross training. Your goal will be to speed time to resolution by interacting with technical resources from multiple vendors and your peer teams to facilitate tested, implementable solutions while remaining compliant and fulfilling technical requirements from your customer. Further, you will represent our program when meeting with the Application Development Organizations (ADO) and help identify opportunities to provide support as well as modernization and innovation opportunities for their application. The current work environment is remote leveraging various tools such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom.

Primary Responsibilities: Evaluate continuous integration and continuous deployment solutions and develop standardized best practices for use within the customers environment Meet with ADO’s on a regular cadence to provide support and identify opportunities for innovation. Work with Sr. DevOps and Cloud Engineering team members as well application owners to help build a standard approach to the development lifecycle. Responsible and accountable for following up on Incidents, Service Requests, Change Requests, and application releases through the management channels. Participate in on-call rotation and respond to alerts within the Program standard. Assist cloud engineering in designing and incorporating DevOps tool sets into container (Docker, ECS, EKS), serverless (Lambda), or Virtual Machine (VMware, KVM) architectures Promote strong quality control practices through continuous integration and continuous deployment implementations. Automate logging, monitoring, approval workflows, or other tasks as needed. Maintain domain knowledge expertise in cloud architecture and best practices Configure continuous testing and security pipelines Resolve highly complex problems using significant application of technical knowledge, conceptualizing, reasoning, and interpretation.

Basic Qualifications: BS degree and 5+ years of prior relevant experience, or 6-8 years in an Enterprise Federal Health IT Program. Package Management tools: rpm, pip. Container build and orchestration: Kubernetes and/or Docker Swarm. Build Tools: Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub. Dependency Management tools: Maven. Configuration Management tools: Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform, Git. Cloud platform services: Azure or AWS. Experience working with AWS/Azure CLI and skilled in shell languages (e.g., Bash, PowerShell), and formal programming languages (e.g., Python, Golang, Rust). Experience with configuration management of Cloud based resources. Excellent writing and verbal communication skills. Ability to manage conflict effectively. Ability to adapt and be productive in a fast-paced dynamic environment. Excellent communication and collaboration skills supporting multiple stakeholders and business operations. Self-starter, self-managed, and a team player.

Preferred Qualifications

• Cloud Certification (e.g., AWS SysOps Administrator, Azure Administrator). Experience with VCS (e.g., Git). Agile-based knowledge and skill, including experience with Scrum Ceremonies and work management tools (e.g., (JIRA, Confluence). Security Skills—Knowledge of information assurance compliance and information security basics within CMS.

• Required Clearance Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance. All candidates supporting the CMS programs must have lived in the United States at least three (3) out of the last five (5) years