Sr. DevOps Engineer

Empower AI is AI for government. Empower AI gives federal agency leaders the tools to elevate the potential of their workforce with a direct path for meaningful transformation. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Empower AI leverages three decades of experience solving complex challenges in Health, Defense, and Civilian missions. Our proven Empower AI Platform® provides a practical, sustainable path for clients to achieve transformation that is true to who they are, what they do, how they work, with the resources they have. The result is a government workforce that is exponentially more creative and productive. For more information, visit www.Empower.ai.

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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!)

All hiring and promotion decisions at Empower AI are based on merit to bring the best talent available to contribute to our firm’s overall success. It is the policy of Empower AI not to discriminate against any applicant for employment, or employee because of age, color, sex, disability, national origin, race, religion, or veteran status. Empower AI is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.