Senior DevOps Engineer

Unissant Inc. delivers innovative capabilities to the agencies that keep our nation healthy and safe. We apply our domain expertise data acumen and technology know-how to achieve breakthrough results for our clients. Working collaboratively we advance missions and careers through a focus on honesty integrity and dependability. We continuously look for talent excited to join that effort. To learn more about our exciting organization please visit us at .

We are seeking a motivated and customer-oriented Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team in the Baltimore-Washington Metro Area in support of our Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) client. An ideal candidate will work with agile teams in a complex enterprise software development environment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Help to create a bridge between development and operations by applying a software engineering mindset
• Partner with developers to apply best practices to ensure full working test training and production environments using logging/monitoring tools
• Work closely with the customer network and software engineering teams to resolve outages and implement changes to avoid future issues
• Design build and maintain CI/CD testing and operations infrastructure
• Develop custom tools and automation through programming and scripting
• Pro-actively identify areas to drive automation across platforms
• Develop innovation strategies processes automation fail-over experience
• Design and setup of new large cloud clusters
• Provide support to implement Change/Service Requests per application needs
• Support AWS cloud infrastructure operations performance scalability and availability for mission-critical healthcare applications.
• Maintain and enhance Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform and cloud-native automation tools.
• Implement and support DevSecOps practices including vulnerability scanning security automation compliance checks and secure deployment pipelines.
• Support release planning production deployments change management and rollback activities across multiple environments.
• Participate in incident management root cause analysis problem management and operational readiness reviews.
• Collaborate with architects developers security teams and customer stakeholders to improve platform reliability and operational excellence.
• Support security assessment activities including FISMA compliance ATO support POA&M remediation and continuous monitoring initiatives.
• Develop and maintain operational runbooks architecture diagrams deployment procedures and technical documentation.

Work Experience:

• 7-10 years of experience in the related field
• Experience in building and setting up of infrastructure in AWS cloud
• Hands-on experience with building and managing release systems code merging and promotion and CI/CD workflows and tools.
• Experience in managing AWS services like EC2 ECS ECR NLB ALB RDS S3 Cloud monitoring services VPC and other network layers.
• Experience with monitoring and log aggregating frameworks
• Experience in migration of applications from on premises to cloud.
• Knowledge of OO programming and concepts (Java C C# Python)
• Experience in configuration management technologies such as Chef Puppet or Ansible.
• Experience with AWS or another cloud PaaS provider.
• Solid understanding of configuration deployment management and maintenance of large cloud-hosted systems; including auto-scaling monitoring performance tuning troubleshooting and disaster recovery.
• Proficiency with source control continuous integration and testing pipelines.
• Experience with Containers and orchestration services like Kubernetes Docker etc.
• Understanding of cloud security and best practices.

• Experience supporting Federal Government healthcare programs (CMS HHS or equivalent) preferred.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform.
• Experience supporting DevSecOps practices including SAST DAST software composition analysis (SCA) and vulnerability management.
• Experience with containerized workloads using AWS ECS ECR Fargate Docker and/or Kubernetes.
• Experience with enterprise monitoring and observability platforms such as AWS CloudWatch Splunk Grafana ELK or equivalent.
• Experience supporting security compliance activities including FISMA ATO POA&M management vulnerability remediation and audit support.
• Experience supporting production incident response root cause analysis and operational support activities.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum software development environments.

Education:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Information Systems or a related field is required

Certificates Licenses and Registrations:

• AWS Solutions Architect AWS SysOps Administrator AWS DevOps Engineer or equivalent cloud certification preferred.
• Security certifications such as Security CISSP or equivalent preferred.

Communication Skills:

• Strong writing listening and presentation skills.
• Solid ability to interface inspire and motivate at various levels of the organization.
• Experience communicating effectively across internal and external organizations.

Travel:

• This is a remote position.

Environmental Requirements:

• Mainly sedentary; in an office environment.
• May be required to lift to ten (10) pounds.
• Flexible in working extended hours.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the individual(s) assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties responsibilities and skills required. Unissant management reserves the right to modify add or remove duties and to assign other duties as addition where applicable and available reasonable accommodation(s) may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of this position.

Please note: Candidate(s) will be required to go through pre-employment screening.

Unissant Inc. is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer! (EOE; M/F/Disability/Vets).

Required Experience:

Senior IC