[Hiring] Lead DevOps Engineer @Tria Federal

Role Description

We are looking for a highly skilled Lead DevOps Engineer with strong AWS, Terraform, Windows Server, and Containerization experience who will be part of a collaborative Kanban-driven team that supports and delivers virtual infrastructure for mission-critical health IT solutions. The ideal candidate will have deep experience with Windows environments, .NET and Node.js application deployments, AWS Lambda, ECS, and Apache NiFi data pipelines. The candidate must have a previous role as a lead or team lead with at least 2 direct reports. This is a 100% remote opportunity, however there may be instances where you would need to be onsite in Woodlawn, MD for a client meeting.

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain a U.S. Federal Position of Trust clearance designation.
• Must reside in and be able to perform work in the United States.
• Must have lived in the United States for 3 of the last 5 years.
• Bachelor's degree is required.
• Lead level experience with at least 8+ years of overall experience in all the required skills.
• 6 or more years of experience working with Kanban and agile tools like Jira, Git, and Confluence.
• 8 or more years of hands-on experience with orchestration tools such as Terraform.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with Windows Server administration (2019/2022), including IIS configuration, Windows services, Active Directory integration, and Group Policy management.
• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for .NET applications (ASP.NET, .NET 4.x, 8+) and Node.js applications deployed to AWS ECS and Lambda.
• Proven experience with AWS ECS (Fargate and EC2 launch types), including service definitions, task definitions, load balancer integration, auto-scaling, and blue/green deployments.
• Hands-on experience with AWS Lambda functions using Node.js and/or Go Lang, including event-driven architectures, API Gateway integration, and Step Functions orchestration.
• Experience deploying, configuring, and maintaining Apache NiFi data flow pipelines for healthcare data integration, including dataflow versioning with NiFi Registry.
• Proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code across AWS services including ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, RDS, VPC networking, IAM, etc.
• Strong PowerShell and Bash scripting skills for automation of Windows and Linux administration tasks, deployment workflows, and operational runbooks.

Benefits

• Top-tier benefits package to invest in your physical, mental, and financial health and wellness.
• Opportunities to learn new skills, seize new challenges, and advance your career.
• A culture of inclusion and opportunity for all.

Responsibilities

• Use our company’s cloud-based performance management software updates function to get weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly, or monthly updates from each direct report.
• Manage Team availability on your program.
• Enforce the Cloud Practice SOP (standard operating procedures).
• Be the example by modeling what you want from your Staff.
• Work Jira/Kanban board tickets; at least 75% of your job is to be technically hands-on.
• Help your staff grow; pick someone on the team to mentor and assign staff to mentor other staff.
• Be available for all customer calls.
• Follow up with your staff to make sure everything is going well, and tasks are getting completed in a timely manner, address injections as they arise.
• Make sure all work has a Jira ticket assigned to it.
• Make sure all work you and your staff does is well documented, and PRs/Commits are attached to Jira tickets.
• Uphold the Customer SLA, remember as people managers we are responsible for the work and performance of those who report to us.
• Respond to emails and slack messages quickly, if you're in a meeting, have slack represent that and check your messages as soon as it's over.
• Have a reoccurring productive and meaningful standup aligned with Kanban workflow, record it, make sure everyone attends.
• Represent your team to the customer.
• Report performance issues to the practice leadership as soon as they happen.
• Make sure all staff are on any all hands calls.
• Report all good news and wins back to the practice.
• Report program issues, failures immediately to practice leadership.
• Contribute and help other teams and encourage your staff to do the same.
• Share your work with the practice.
• Help grow and mature the practice.