Highlight · 1 day ago
Sr. DevOps Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
3+ years expHighlight is a company that provides Development and Modernization, Secure IT, and Mission Solution services to federal government customers. They are seeking a Sr. DevOps Engineer to join their infrastructure team, where the role involves mentoring engineers, architecting scalable infrastructure solutions, and supporting a collaborative DevOps team.
Cyber SecurityInformation ServicesSoftware
No H1B
U.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Responding to infrastructure support requests; Triage and investigate 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 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
Ability 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
Qualification
Required
Ability to receive DHS EOD suitability
U.S. Citizenship
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
3+ 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 Harness.io automated pipelines
AWS and its services (EKS, ECS, RDS, SQS, SES)
IAC Frameworks like Terraform and/or Cloudformation
Experience using and implementing IAC (Infrastructure As Code)
Containerization (e.g. Docker) best practices
Git or alternative source code repositories
Containerization tools (Docker, Podman, etc)
Preferred
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!)
Benefits
Employee Stock Ownership Plan
Company
Highlight
Highlight is an award-winning, 100% employee-owned federal government contractor dedicated to providing diverse IT and professional services across Health, Homeland, and Defense agencies.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageRecent News
2024-02-19
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