DevOps Engineer

LTS is seeking a highly motivated DevOps Engineer to support a critical Electronic Health Records (EHR) modernization program for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Health Services Corps (IHSC). In this role, you will be at the center of the development lifecycle—building and maintaining software tools, streamlining processes, and fostering collaboration between development, operations, and testing teams. The DevOps Engineer will play a key role in integrating multiple systems into a cohesive product, troubleshooting, and resolving issues, and driving efficiencies that enhance the user experience for mission-critical healthcare technology. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the modernization of federal healthcare systems, reduce user errors, and improve overall system performance in support of ICE’s mission.

ICE Health Services Corps (IHSC) delivers healthcare services to individuals in its custody and is currently undertaking a large-scale EHR modernization effort to increase operations efficiency, enhance reporting capabilities, improve the quality of alien health care, and security of health data through advanced technology and innovative digital solutions. The work is in Washington, D.C. and is contingent upon contract award.

LTS provides trusted consulting, and solutions in an increasingly complex and growing world. Our deep expertise in technology and analytics helps us serve a broad constituency of clients that range from cabinet-level departments of the U.S. Government to the largest Federal IT contractors in the world.

LTS is a leading information technology (IT) provider for mission critical systems leveraging the latest technologies to deliver cutting edge solutions from small mobile applications to large, complex enterprise applications. Our professionals specialize in multiple disciplines including program management, system integration, system design, system development, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and data analytics.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operationalize Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, and Continuous Delivery solutions.
• Support and enhance build and release processes through automation using a combination of processes and existing tools.
• Design and implement DevOps solutions that leverage AWS / AZURE and internal products/service capabilities to meet requirements.
• Support transformation of established infrastructure using automation; Support building new systems environments, and upgrading/patching existing ones, through use of automation tooling.
• Provide hands-on support for the ongoing development of Infrastructure-As-Code (IAC) and support operation and maintenance team.
• Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures. 
• Design and develop reusable components, code, and document custom automation frameworks, maintain scripts, and update these items as needed to build continuous delivery pipelines, ensuring rapid availability of the product.
• Develop and maintain automated test framework tools to facilitate Systems Engineer testing tasks.
• Research and recommend innovative, and where applicable automate approaches for system administrations tasks.
  
  

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field
• A minimum of two (2) to three (3) years of build automation and release management experience in production environments.
• Experience with Amazon Web Services administration, or significant experience with another major public cloud provider.
• Experience building and releasing Infrastructure-As-Code (IAC) in a controlled environment with an understanding of full-lifecycle configuration management. 
• Experience installing, configuring, and using various open source and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Chef, Selenium, Docker, Sonarqube, Terraform.
• Experience developing coding/scripting to build required automation and tools (using Chef, Ruby, Python, Bash, PowerShell, Java, etc.).
• Experience configuring and/or utilizing monitoring/logging solutions for operations such as Cloud Watch, Nagios, Collectd, logstash, or Kafka. 
• Experience with version control systems (GITHUB).
• Experience with DevOps concepts and automation skills.
• Experience with both Windows and UNIX operating systems.
• Experience web infrastructure fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, etc.
• Ability to understand and actively participate in SCRUM Agile methodology.
• Excellent debugging and testing skills.
• Strong sense of collaboration, teamwork, and accountability.
• Possession of excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Possession of excellent IHSC-facing consulting, leadership, and analytic skills.
• Ability to communicate issues, status, tradeoffs, and priorities.
  
  

LTS is committed to offering eligible employees comprehensive benefits that will provide them with options intended to meet their needs and the needs of their family.