VetsEZ

Senior Backend DevOps Engineer (Remote Opportunity)

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27 days ago
Remote, United States or Philadelphia, PA, USASenior

Responsibilities

  • Operate and optimize Amazon ECS deployments for JLV backend microservices.
  • Configure scaling, task definitions, health checks, load balancing, and blue/green deployment strategies.
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code and maintain CI/CD pipelines for containerized microservices.
  • Automate build, testing, security scanning, deployment, verification, rollback, configuration, database updates, and post-deployment validation.
  • Support multi-region high availability, disaster recovery, backup, restore, outage recovery, and incident response in AWS GovCloud.
  • Build and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, notification, and observability systems.
  • Implement IAM and security controls supporting FedRAMP High, NIST 800-53, FISMA, and VA compliance requirements.
  • Support continuous monitoring, audits, remediation, production issue triage, service reliability improvements, and release validation.
  • Develop operational runbooks, deployment guides, architecture documentation, and production readiness materials.
  • Partner with backend, product, security, and operations teams and guide releases through VA governance processes.

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 enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
  • Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code practices and automation frameworks.
  • Working knowledge of FedRAMP High, NIST 800-53, FISMA, and government cloud compliance requirements.
  • Experience with observability solutions, incident response processes, and SRE practices.
  • Strong understanding of AWS networking, IAM, security groups, and multi-region disaster recovery architectures.
  • Experience with AWS GovCloud environments is an additional qualification.
  • Familiarity with VA Enterprise Cloud architecture, deployment governance, operational readiness reviews, and production operations management is preferred.
  • Experience supporting healthcare applications or clinical viewer platforms and integrating with VA or DoD healthcare systems is preferred.
  • Knowledge of VIP lifecycle processes and associated release documentation is preferred.
  • U.S. citizenship is required.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance or higher is required.
  • Candidates must reside within the continental United States.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) with employer match.
  • Paid time off and federal holidays.
  • Corporate laptop.
  • Training opportunities.
  • 100% remote work opportunity.

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