DevOps Engineer

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, cloud/platform engineering, systems engineering, or enterprise application deployment.
• Strong hands-on experience administering Linux environments and strong proficiency with the Linux command line and shell scripting.
• Experience with Linux system configuration, package management, permissions, processes, services, networking, logging, and troubleshooting.
• Strong experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and supporting development, testing, staging, and production environments.
• Experience with Git, automated application build/test/package/deployment, infrastructure or configuration automation, and containerized application deployment.
• Working knowledge of SQL and relational database systems and experience supporting MariaDB/MySQL or comparable platforms.
• Experience with centralized logging, monitoring, health checks, alerting, secrets/configuration management, networking, DNS, TLS/certificates, firewalls, and application connectivity.
• Understanding of enterprise identity/access management, secure SDLC, and DevSecOps practices.
• Experience developing deployment procedures, operational documentation, and technical runbooks.
• Proficiency with VS Code or comparable tools for scripting, automation, infrastructure configuration, and Git workflows.
• Hands-on experience working in Agile/Scrum teams and supporting sprint-based development, testing, demonstrations, retrospectives, and recurring releases.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Must be a US Citizen and be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust
• Strong hands-on MariaDB/MySQL experience, including configuration, security, monitoring, performance troubleshooting, backup, and recovery.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, configuration-management technologies, and containerized application environments.
• Experience supporting enterprise React/API/database application stacks.
• Experience with federal information-security and authorization processes, including familiarity with NIST security controls, FISMA, and ATO processes.
• Experience with enterprise SSO/MFA, Microsoft 365, and/or SharePoint integrations.
• Experience supporting AI/ML or LLM-enabled applications and automated security scanning in CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with application, database, and infrastructure performance monitoring and production cutovers/hypercare.
• Familiarity with Posit (formerly RStudio) platforms and supporting Posit-based data science or analytical environments is a plus.
• Experience supporting federal government, healthcare, life-sciences, or other regulated environments is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong hands-on MariaDB/MySQL experience, including configuration, security, monitoring, performance troubleshooting, backup, and recovery.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, configuration-management technologies, and containerized application environments.
• Experience supporting enterprise React/API/database application stacks.
• Experience with federal information-security and authorization processes, including familiarity with NIST security controls, FISMA, and ATO processes.
• Experience with enterprise SSO/MFA, Microsoft 365, and/or SharePoint integrations.
• Experience supporting AI/ML or LLM-enabled applications and automated security scanning in CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with application, database, and infrastructure performance monitoring and production cutovers/hypercare.
• Familiarity with Posit (formerly RStudio) platforms and supporting Posit-based data science or analytical environments is a plus.
• Experience supporting federal government, healthcare, life-sciences, or other regulated environments is a plus.

Core Technical Skills

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, maintain, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines for enterprise application components.
• Establish and support development, testing, staging, and production environments and administer Linux-based application environments.
• Automate application build, testing, packaging, deployment, configuration, and release-management processes.
• Support deployment and operation of React front-end applications, backend APIs, database components, workflow services, and AI/ML integrations.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code and configuration automation where supported; develop and maintain shell scripts and automation tools.
• Manage environment-specific configuration, secrets, credentials, certificates, keys, and service configuration.
• Support enterprise identity and access-management integrations, including SSO/MFA.
• Support SQL and MariaDB/MySQL database environments, including configuration, schema deployment, migrations, backup/recovery, monitoring, troubleshooting, and production cutover.
• Establish centralized application and infrastructure logging, monitoring, health checks, operational dashboards, and alerting.
• Collaborate with QA to integrate automated testing and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement and support secure DevSecOps practices, vulnerability remediation, patching, configuration management, and technical security controls.
• Maintain release histories, deployment records, configuration documentation, and technical artifacts supporting traceability and auditability.
• Develop deployment, rollback, backup, recovery, and operational procedures and support recurring application releases and production hypercare.
• Troubleshoot application, database, Linux, network, authentication, configuration, integration, and performance issues.
• Use VS Code or comparable tools for scripting, configuration management, infrastructure code, Git workflows, and troubleshooting.
• Actively participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews/demos, retrospectives, estimation, and release planning.
• Collaborate with developers and QA throughout each sprint to remove deployment blockers, automate delivery, and support sprint/release objectives.
• Develop and maintain operational runbooks and technical documentation.