Sr. DevOps Engineer

Highlighttech; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Stock Ownership Plan

Equal Opportunity Employer

Job summary

Highlighttech is seeking a Sr. DevOps Engineer to join our infrastructure team supporting critical systems at USCIS. You will mentor engineers, architect scalable solutions, and tackle complex challenges in a fast-paced environment.

This role requires communication skills, and experience with CI/CD pipelines, AWS services, and Terraform. Join us to make a meaningful impact by supporting systems that serve thousands of federal employees.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of DevOps experience.
• Strong communication skills.
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to new technologies.

Responsibilities

• Respond to infrastructure support requests.
• Document knowledge proactively.
• Support ecosystem with Terraform provisioning.

Skills

CI/CD automated pipelines

AWS and its services (EKS, ECS, RDS, SQS, SES)

IAC Frameworks like Terraform and/or Cloudformation

Containerization best practices

Git or alternative source code repositories

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

New Relic

Splunk

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Oracle

MongoDB

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a Sr. DevOps Engineer to join our infrastructure team supporting critical systems at USCIS, where you’ll tackle complex technical challenges and build automated solutions that matter. As a Sr. DevOps Engineer you will mentor fellow engineers, architect scalable infrastructure solutions, and work alongside a collaborative DevOps team supporting 14 development teams. This is an opportunity for a self‑motivated engineer who thrives in fast‑paced environments and wants to make a meaningful impact on systems that serve thousands of federal workers.

Responsibilities

• Responding to infrastructure support requests; triaging and investigating 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/managing 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
• May need 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

Qualifications

• Ability to receive DHS EOD suitability
• U.S. Citizenship
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ 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 automated pipelines
  • AWS and its services (EKS, ECS, RDS, SQS, SES)
  • IAC Frameworks like Terraform and/or Cloudformation
  • Experience using and implementing Infrastructure As Code
  • Containerization best practices
  • Git or alternative source code repositories

Secondary Qualifications

• 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!)

About Highlight

For over ten years, Highlight has provided Development and Modernization, Secure IT, and Mission Solution services to our federal government customers. Our team knows the technology; we understand how our customers and their stakeholders work; and we know how to implement industry best practices to deliver high‑quality, end‑to‑end solutions that minimize risk and maximize results.

Since our inception, Highlight has had an employee‑first mindset. Our mission is to provide employees with rewarding and impactful career opportunities. In 2021, Highlight’s founder, Rebecca Andino, implemented an Employee Stock Ownership Plan to embody and expand our culture of transparency, teamwork and rewarding the work of our employees. To learn more about ESOPS, check out: www.esopinfo.org.

We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) that empowers our people to fearlessly drive change — regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other characteristics. Our team is dedicated to foster diversity within our teams to promote creativity, innovation, and teamwork to deliver the best solutions for our customers.

To receive compensation and benefits information for this role, contact us or email us at [e-mail]. Please include the Req ID (this is at the top of the posting under the position title) in the subject line of the email.

Recruitment Fraud Disclaimer

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To protect yourself, keep the following in mind:

• All emails will come from an official @highlighttech.com or @talent.icims.com email address.
• We will never request payment or personal financial information during the recruitment process.
• We will not send job offers via email. All offers are first extended verbally by a member of our recruitment team whenever possible, and then followed up via written communication through official channels.

If you suspect fraudulent activity or have any doubts about the authenticity of an email, letter, or telephone communication supposedly from, for, or on behalf of Highlight, please contact our team directly at [e-mail].