Skylight
Senior/StaffDevOpsEngineer
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“Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer at Skylight. Skills: DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, CI/CD Pipelines, Security Best Practices. Engineer developer experience. Automate web-based environments”
Industry & Context.
Risk analysis
Work within the U.S., Public trust clearance, Security clearance, Company background check, Travel from time to time
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Understand software development concepts, Work in a cloud-centric world, Manage disparate systems, Ensure system availability, Ensure system reliability, Ensure system resiliency, Enable teams to deliver value, Build secure applications, Build compliant applications, Defend against vulnerabilities, Instrument applications, Configure infrastructure for monitoring, Configure infrastructure for metrics, Configure infrastructure for alerting, Configure infrastructure for logging, Configure infrastructure for auditability, Configure infrastructure for compliance, Create infrastructure as code, Maintain infrastructure as code, Standardize deployment processes, Experience mentoring engineers, Raise operational bar across team, Ability to work in professional services, Communicate effectively with clients, Legally authorized to work in U.S., Ability to travel for work
Nice to Have
Experience in regulated environments, Experience in compliance-driven environments, Experience with AWS GovCloud, Experience with government cloud environments, Experience supporting sensitive data systems, Prior experience in civic tech, Experience in remote-team environment
What You'll Do.
Engineer developer experience
Automate web-based environments
Virtualize web-based environments
Improve development processes
Build CI/CD pipelines
Maintain CI/CD pipelines
Release to production on demand
Manage cloud infrastructure
Create infrastructure as code
Maintain infrastructure as code
Standardize deployment processes
Protect sensitive data
Apply security best practices
Apply privacy best practices
Conduct risk analyses
Implement remediations
Meet federal security standards
Achieve technical excellence
Advocate for lean-agile practices
Adhere to lean-agile practices
Advocate for simple design
Adhere to simple design
Advocate for automated testing
Adhere to automated testing
Build engineering capacity
Enable engineering practices
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work with developers; Work with software engineers; Enable teams; Coach engineers; Share knowledge
Communication Scope
Communicate with clients
Process & Methodology
Lean-agile engineering
Full Job Description
About Skylight Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help government agencies deliver better public services. We’re at the forefront of a civic movement to reinvent how all levels of government serve families, patients, and many others in today's digital world. If you want to play a part in driving this critical movement forward, we’d love for you to join our growing team of public interest technologists. The work we do matters. About the job At Skylight, DevOps engineers work with developers throughout the software development life cycle to ensure code can be reliably and repeatedly released on demand with a high degree of quality. They understand both software development and operations, with expertise in areas such as networking, security, test automation, and continuous integration/deployment. What you’ll do Engineer a great experience for developers working in web-based environments through automation, virtualization, and process improvement Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that let the team reliably and repeatedly release to production on demand Manage cloud infrastructure and create and maintain infrastructure as code, standardizing deployment processes Protect sensitive data by applying security and privacy best practices, conducting audits and risk analyses, and planning and implementing remediations that meet federal security standards Achieve technical excellence by advocating for and adhering to lean-agile engineering practices such as simple design and automated testing Build up the organization’s engineering capacity through coaching, knowledge sharing, and other enablement practices What we're looking for Minimum qualifications Understand the general concepts of modern software development and can work closely with software engineers Able to work in a cloud-centric world, including managing disparate, interconnected systems and ensuring their availability, reliability, and resiliency Can enable teams to deliver value to us
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