Senior Backend DevOps Engineer
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Senior Backend DevOps Engineer operating AWS containerized microservices for the VA’s JLV clinical data viewer. Building CI/CD, observability, security, and disaster recovery capabilities.
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 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.
Requirements:
- 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.
- Experience working in AWS GovCloud environments.
- Familiarity with VA Enterprise Cloud architecture and deployment patterns.
- Experience supporting healthcare applications or clinical viewer platforms.
- Familiarity with deployment governance, operational readiness reviews, and production operations management.
- Experience integrating with VA or DoD healthcare systems and services.
- Knowledge of VIP lifecycle processes and associated release documentation.
- U.S. Citizenship is required.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance or higher.
- Must reside within the continental United States.
- Sponsorship is not offered.
Benefits:
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- 401k with Employer Match
- PTO + Federal Holidays
- Corporate Laptop
- Training Opportunities
- Remote Opportunity
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