DevOps Engineer
Career Team3 months ago
Denver, CO, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Design, provision, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code.
- Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines for safe and frequent software deployments.
- Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot containerized applications on Kubernetes.
- Automate operational workflows through scripting and infrastructure automation.
- Improve 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 practices across cloud infrastructure, identity management, networking, secrets management, and application delivery.
- Support government-hosted compliance initiatives, including AWS GovCloud deployments and applicable public-sector security frameworks.
- Evolve platform architecture and improve automation, resilience, and operational excellence.
- Participate in planning, design discussions, and continuous improvement as part of an Agile Scrum team.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure, preferably on AWS.
- Hands-on production experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- 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 for troubleshooting complex distributed systems.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
- Preferred experience with AWS GovCloud or other regulated cloud environments and sensitive or regulated data.
- Familiarity with NIST, FedRAMP, GovRAMP, SOC 2, or CJIS security and compliance frameworks.
- Experience with GitOps 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.
Benefits
- Remote role, with preference for candidates located near the Denver, Colorado headquarters.
- Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check.
Tech Stack
Argo CDAWSBashDockerGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGrafanaJavaScriptJenkinsKubernetesLinuxNode.jsPrometheusPythonTerraformTypeScript
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About Career Team
Career TEAM provides workforce development services and software to government agencies and education institutions. The company delivers WIOA, SNAP, and TANF program operations, plus its Career EDGE platform for career-readiness courseware, case management, labor exchange, and timesheets, offered alongside staff training. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Shelton, Connecticut, it is privately held and works with workforce boards and state systems nationwide.