Junior DevOps Engineer at ESimplicity

• Job Location Columbia, MD
• Seniority Entry Level
• Type Full-time

Description

Job Type Full-time Description About Us: eSimplicity is a modern digital services company that partners with government agencies to improve the lives and protect the well-being of all Americans, from veterans and service members to children, families, and seniors.

Our engineers, designers, and strategists cut through complexity to create intuitive products and services that equip federal agencies with solutions to courageously transform today for a better tomorrow.

Essential Responsibilities Designing, developing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for development Developing, configuring, and managing multiple environments (development, testing, UAT, staging, production) and ensuring metadata deployments are synchronized and consistent Configuring quality gates including code reviews, test execution, code quality checks, and code security scans within the CI/CD pipeline Promoting and applying an automation-first approach to reduce manual configurations within the platform by writing custom scripts, configuring robotic process automation, etc.

Managing releases in coordination with development, QA and business teams Implement strategies for quick data and metadata restoration in case of deployment failures or other issues Leading backup and restore strategies, including scheduling data backups and maintaining restoration runbooks Leading continuous improvements and enhancements to the CI/CD pipeline and team development workflows to evolve best practices Setting up monitoring and alerting on deployments to detect and address issues Documenting DevOps code promotion, back promotion, best practices, and environments Providing technical support, troubleshooting, and training to the development team on continuous integration and continuous deployment best practices Implementing observability tools within the platform to gain insights into system performance, reliability, and utilization to proactively identify potential issues Configuring alerts on systems issues and leading incident response in collaboration with development teams Configuring security tools and permission sets to enforce zero-trust security strategies and least-privilege access controls Strong proven analytical ability and ability to solve problems independently Requirements Required Qualifications: All candidates must pass public trust clearance through the U.S.

Federal Government.

This requires candidates to either be U.S.

citizens or pass clearance through the Foreign National Government System which will require that candidates have lived within the United States for at least 3 out of the previous 5 years, have a valid and non-expired passport from their country of birth and appropriate VISA/work permit documentation.

A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other related scientific or technical discipline.