Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Career Team is a leading workforce development organization on a mission to transform lives. They are looking for a DevOps Engineer who will help build and operate the cloud platform that powers Career EDGE, focusing on designing and managing cloud infrastructure, automating workflows, and ensuring system reliability and security.
Responsibilities
- Design, provision, and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS using Infrastructure as Code
- Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable safe, reliable, and frequent software deployments
- Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot containerized applications running on Kubernetes
- Automate operational workflows and eliminate repetitive manual processes through scripting and infrastructure automation
- Improve platform observability through logging, monitoring, metrics, alerting, and dashboards
- Optimize systems for performance, scalability, availability, security, and cost efficiency
- Partner with engineering teams to improve developer experience and deployment reliability
- Participate in production incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous operational improvements
- Implement security best practices across cloud infrastructure, identity management, networking, secrets management, and application delivery
- Support compliance initiatives for government-hosted environments, including AWS GovCloud deployments and security frameworks applicable to public sector software
- Help evolve our platform architecture while continuously improving automation, resilience, and operational excellence
- Participate as a collaborative member of an Agile Scrum team, contributing to planning, design discussions, and continuous improvement
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure, preferably on AWS
- Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar tools
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar technologies
- Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills
- Experience writing automation scripts using Bash, Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript
- Understanding of networking fundamentals, cloud security, IAM, DNS, TLS, and secrets management
- Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability solutions
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills
- Experience operating production workloads in AWS GovCloud or other regulated cloud environments
- Experience supporting applications that process sensitive or regulated data
- Familiarity with security and compliance frameworks such as NIST, FedRAMP, GovRAMP, SOC 2, or CJIS
- Experience with GitOps workflows and tools such as Argo CD or Flux
- Experience supporting Node.js services and MongoDB in production
- Experience optimizing cloud infrastructure for cost, scalability, and reliability
- Experience working within Agile software development teams
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