DevOps Manager
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DevOps Manager overseeing AWS infrastructure for federal grants management platform. Ensuring reliability and security of the Grants.gov IT Services Contract with a focus on system availability.
Responsibilities:
- Lead all DevOps practices across AWS environments including development, test, staging, training, and production
- Oversee system operations encompassing server administration, database administration, and comprehensive system monitoring
- Manage and optimize infrastructure to support platform capacity requirements, including millions of grant opportunity searches and over 240,000 annual submissions
- Coordinate maintenance activities during approved windows (midnight to 6:00 AM Eastern Time)
- Manage and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines supporting approximately four major release cycles per year
- Coordinate approximately 12 change requests per release cycle, ensuring proper testing, staging, and deployment procedures
- Implement and maintain configuration management practices aligned with federal standards
- Develop, maintain, and test disaster recovery plans meeting stringent federal requirements
- Ensure Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 48 hours and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 24 hours as specified in contract requirements
- Lead incident response activities and coordinate resolution of system issues
- Maintain compliance with FISMA and FedRAMP security requirements
- Oversee vulnerability management and remediation activities
- Support security assessments and Authority to Operate (ATO) processes
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field
- 10+ years of relevant experience
- Ability to complete a Tier 1 background investigation
- Demonstrated experience managing AWS cloud infrastructure in federal environments
- Proficiency with Java/JEE applications on Apache Tomcat
- Experience with Oracle Database administration and Linux system administration
- Knowledge of JavaScript, Express, NodeJS, and MongoDB
- Familiarity with monitoring and operational tools including Solarwinds, Pagerduty, and Tableau
- Experience with Atlassian Jira and Confluence for project tracking and documentation
- Strong background in SDLC methodologies and Agile practices
- Understanding of FISMA/FedRAMP compliance requirements
- Experience with configuration management and change control processes
- Proven ability to lead technical teams in high-availability environments
- Experience coordinating with multiple stakeholders in federal contracting contexts
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to respond effectively to system incidents.
Benefits:
- medical
- dental
- vision
- life
- disability
- voluntary benefit programs (critical illness, hospital, and accident)
- health savings and flexible spending accounts
- retirement 401K plan
- competitive health and welfare benefits
- paid leave programs


















