Junior DevOps Engineer

Talantir; Columbia (MD); Remote; USD 68,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full healthcare benefits

Competitive salary

Job summary

eSimplicity is a modern digital services company that partners with federal agencies to deliver secure DevSecOps pipelines and automation across development, testing, UAT, staging, and production. You will design, develop, and maintain CI/CD, implement automation-first approaches, and contribute to reliable deployments in a remote Eastern-time framework.

We seek candidates with 2+ years of DevSecOps, cloud experience, and IaC skills (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or 4 years IT experience with 2 years DevSecOps specialization.
• 2+ years of DevSecOps experience with cloud, CI/CD, release management, security tooling.
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools, log aggregation, and security tools within Platform.
• Familiarity with IaC tools including Terraform and AWS CloudFormation; configuration management like Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Designing, developing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines across environments.
• Developing, configuring, and managing development, testing, UAT, staging, and production environments with synchronized metadata deployments.
• Configuring quality gates including code reviews, tests, code quality checks, and security scans in CI/CD pipelines.
• Promoting automation: writing custom scripts and configuring robotic process automation to reduce manual configuration.
• Managing releases in coordination with development, QA and business teams.
• Leading backup and restore strategies with runbooks and data restoration processes.
• Setting up monitoring and alerting on deployments to detect and address issues.
• Documenting DevOps processes, best practices, and environments; providing training on CI/CD practices.

Skills

DevSecOps

CI/CD

Cloud architecture

Monitoring/observability

Security tools

Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering/related

Equivalent experience (4 years IT + 2 years DevSecOps)

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Ansible

AWS Cloud

Data Deploy/Data Loader

Job description

Job Type

Full-time

Description

About Us:

eSimplicity is a modern digital services company that partners with government agencies to improve the lives and protect the well-being of all Americans, from veterans and service members to children, families, and seniors. Our engineers, designers, and strategists cut through complexity to create intuitive products and services that equip federal agencies with solutions to courageously transform today for a better tomorrow.

Essential Responsibilities

• Designing, developing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for developmentDeveloping, configuring, and managing multiple environments (development, testing, UAT, staging, production) and ensuring metadata deployments are synchronized and consistentConfiguring quality gates including code reviews, test execution, code quality checks, and code security scans within the CI/CD pipelinePromoting and applying an automation-first approach to reduce manual configurations within the platform by writing custom scripts, configuring robotic process automation, etc.Managing releases in coordination with development, QA and business teamsImplement strategies for quick data and metadata restoration in case of deployment failures or other issuesLeading backup and restore strategies, including scheduling data backups and maintaining restoration runbooksLeading continuous improvements and enhancements to the CI/CD pipeline and team development workflows to evolve best practicesSetting up monitoring and alerting on deployments to detect and address issuesDocumenting DevOps code promotion, back promotion, best practices, and environmentsProviding technical support, troubleshooting, and training to the development team on continuous integration and continuous deployment best practicesImplementing observability tools within the platform to gain insights into system performance, reliability, and utilization to proactively identify potential issuesConfiguring alerts on systems issues and leading incident response in collaboration with development teamsConfiguring security tools and permission sets to enforce zero-trust security strategies and least-privilege access controlsStrong proven analytical ability and ability to solve problems independently

Requirements

• All candidates must pass public trust clearance through the U.S. Federal Government. This requires candidates to either be U.S. citizens or pass clearance through the Foreign National Government System which will require that candidates have lived within the United States for at least 3 out of the previous 5 years, have a valid and non-expired passport from their country of birth and appropriate VISA/work permit documentation.A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other related scientific or technical discipline. OR In lieu of a degree, 4 years of general information technology experience and at least two years of specialized experience may be substituted.2+ years of DevSecOps experience with cloud architecture, CI/CD pipelines, release management, security tools, managing multiple applications and environments (e.g. development, testing, UAT, staging, production).Experience with monitoring and observability tools, log aggregation, and security tools within the PlatformExperience with Data Deploy and Data LoaderKnowledgeable platform capabilities, governor limits, Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Web Components, APIs, and declarative development toolsKnowledgeable of testing frameworks and best practices for automated testingKnowledge of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools including Terraform, AWS CloudFormation and configuration management tools such as AnsibleFamiliarity with AWS Cloud is a plus

Desired Qualifications

• DevSecOps Fundamentals I and Fundamentals II Certified Administrator

Work Environment

• eSimplicity supports a remote work environment operating within the Eastern time zone so we can work with and respond to our government clients. Expected hours are 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Eastern unless otherwise directed by manager.
• Occasional travel for training and project meetings. It is estimated to be less than 5% per year.

Benefits

• We offer a highly competitive salary and full healthcare benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity

eSimplicity is an equal-opportunity employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, age, status as a protected veteran, sexual orientation, gender identity, or status as a qualified individual with a disability.

Salary Description

$75,200