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Senior DevOps Engineer

ALTEN, Los Angeles, California, United States, 90079

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Job Title:

Senior DevOps Engineer Location:

100% Remote Job Description:

The Senior DevOps Engineer, a key member of the EIT DevOps Team, is responsible for the staging and production infrastructure of Digital Services within the federal sector. This role is pivotal in managing and optimizing staging and production deployment environments across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure. Core Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure Management: Deploy, manage, and maintain cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP, ensuring compliance for government workloads. Infrastructure Automation: Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, OpenTofu, or AWS CloudFormation. Deployment Pipeline Streamlining: Collaborate with development teams to streamline CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitLab and OpenTofu for efficient infrastructure and application delivery. Performance Optimization: Monitor system performance, participate in capacity planning, and optimize application and infrastructure performance by tuning configurations and identifying bottlenecks. Automation Development: Develop scripts and tools to automate routine operations, including patching, scaling, and monitoring. Self-Healing Systems: Design and implement self-healing systems that proactively detect and resolve faults. Data Integrity & Availability: Manage backup and disaster recovery strategies to ensure data integrity and availability across environments. Security & Compliance: Perform regular security audits and vulnerability patching, adhering to government compliance requirements (e.g., FedRAMP, NIST). Incident Management & Observability

Real-time Incident Resolution: Respond to and resolve infrastructure incidents and outages in real-time, minimizing disruption. Root Cause Analysis (RCA): Conduct RCA for production issues and implement long-term corrective actions. On-Call Participation: Participate in an on-call rotation, escalating and coordinating responses to high-severity issues. Incident Documentation: Document incidents, responses, and postmortems to capture lessons learned. Complex Problem Diagnosis: Diagnose complex infrastructure and application problems, including database performance issues, latency, and service connectivity challenges. Comprehensive Logging & Telemetry: Ensure comprehensive logging and telemetry to support incident response, performance tuning, and auditing. Observability Improvements: Drive observability improvements by collaborating with Engineering and Platform teams to enhance system reliability and traceability. Application & Knowledge Management

Application Incident Leadership: Lead resolution efforts for application-level incidents, ensuring coordinated response across teams. Application Lifecycle Management: Oversee application lifecycle management, including version upgrades, security patches, and regional rollouts. Knowledge Base Contribution: Contribute to a shared knowledge base, documenting recurring issues and resolution steps. Scaling Strategies: Support scaling strategies to meet regional demand, ensuring infrastructure resilience and compliance with service-level objectives (SLOs). Communication & Documentation: Document procedures, incidents, and solutions clearly; produce support documentation and conduct knowledge transfer or training sessions. Team Autonomy: Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision in a fast-paced, collaborative, and globally distributed team. A motivated, proactive mindset with a commitment to delivering high-quality, secure, and reliable systems. Seniority & Employment

Seniority level:

Mid-Senior level Employment type:

Full-time Job function:

Other Industries:

IT Services and IT Consulting

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