Senior Backend DevOps Engineer - Remote (AWS GovCloud)

Veterans EZ Info Inc; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote Opportunity

Corporate Laptop

Training Opportunities

PTO + Holidays

Job summary

VetsEZ is seeking a Senior Backend DevOps Engineer for a 100% remote role supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Joint Longitudinal Viewer (JLV) program. The role focuses on operating and optimizing AWS ECS deployments and implementing IaC aligned with VAEC standards.

You will design CI/CD pipelines, automate builds and deployments, maintain monitoring and incident response, and ensure multi-region HA and security controls per FedRAMP High, NIST 800-53, FISMA, and VA compliance.

Qualifications

• Experience operating containerized microservices on AWS ECS.
• Strong understanding of container orchestration, service scaling, load balancing, and health monitoring.
• Proficiency with AWS CLI and production cloud operations.
• Experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines for enterprise environments.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code practices and automation frameworks.
• Working knowledge of FedRAMP High, NIST 800-53, FISMA, and government cloud compliance requirements.
• Experience implementing observability solutions, incident response processes, and SRE practices.
• Strong understanding of AWS networking, IAM, security groups, and multi-region disaster recovery architectures.

Responsibilities

• Operate and optimize Amazon ECS deployments for JLV backend microservices.
• Configure and manage service scaling, task definitions, health checks, and blue/green deployment strategies.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions aligned with VA Enterprise Cloud (VAEC) architecture standards.
• Support multi-region high availability and disaster recovery environments within AWS GovCloud.
• Design, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines for containerized microservices.
• Automate build, test, security scanning, deployment, verification, and rollback processes.
• Create repeatable deployment procedures and release workflows supporting VA governance requirements.
• Automate system configuration, database updates, performance tuning, and post-deployment validation.
• Build and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and notification systems for JLV backend services.
• Execute backup, restore, outage recovery, and incident response procedures.
• Develop operational runbooks and support production readiness activities.
• Establish performance baselines and support load testing and release validation.
• Implement security controls supporting FedRAMP High, NIST 800-53, FISMA, and VA compliance frameworks.
• Integrate security practices into CI/CD pipelines and operational workflows.
• Support continuous monitoring, audit activities, and remediation efforts.
• Implement IAM solutions following government cloud best practices.
• Partner with backend engineers, product teams, security teams, and operations personnel.
• Support production issue triage and service reliability improvements.
• Guide releases through VA governance and approval processes.
• Maintain architecture documentation, deployment guides, and operational procedures.
• Take on additional tasks and responsibilities as needed to support team objectives and ensure the success of the project.

Skills

AWS ECS

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

SRE practices

Monitoring/logging

IAM & security

Tools

AWS CLI

Job description

VetsEZ is seeking a Senior Backend DevOps Engineer for a 100% remote role supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Joint Longitudinal Viewer (JLV) program. The role focuses on operating and optimizing AWS ECS deployments and implementing IaC aligned with VAEC standards.

You will design CI/CD pipelines, automate builds and deployments, maintain monitoring and incident response, and ensure multi-region HA and security controls per FedRAMP High, NIST 800-53, FISMA, and VA compliance.