Copper River Cyber Solutions is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineerto join our team in support of a new contract at the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Responsiveness. This position will be performed remotely with the occasional need for an onsite meeting in the Washington D.C. area.

The Senior DevOps Engineer is responsible for all aspects of DevOps engineering. Develops DevOps strategies. May evaluate new DevOps software and hardware for adherence to the organization's quality standards. Working with Project Team Leads and Project Managers to produce the highest quality products.

Responsibilities (include but are not limited to):

• Serve as the Senior DevOps Engineer
• Assist with the design of, as well as configure and maintain, infrastructure and/or cloud resources necessary to reliably host, run, and support applications through all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Create and maintain continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
• Write scripts and configurations to automate application testing, deployment, and maintenance in a manner consistent with software engineering best practices
• Proactively monitor build and deployment pipelines and infrastructure, apply patches, troubleshoot issues, and resolve errors
• Automate infrastructure and/or cloud resource deployments and configuration using infrastructure-as-code tools
• Work with engineering teams to create CI/CD pipelines for their applications and ensure code is properly integrated into the CI/CD pipelines
• Configure and support development environments for consistent development processes across devices
• Participate in the design of the version control system and configure it to align with software development life cycle (SDLC) and security policies and best practices
• Automate security testing and vulnerability scanning and integrate it into the development process
• Assist with remediate findings from vulnerability scanning and penetration testing
• Assist with training users on both new and existing functionality
• Informally mentor other staff in DevOps concepts and processes
• Work with peers and business partners to identify workflows or processes where automation can improve efficiency and or reduce costs
• Leverage multivendor APIs and write scripts to create solutions to improve existing processes
• Engage internal departments and third-party vendors for security and infrastructure support and best practices
• Troubleshoot technical issues, identify the cause, determine possible resolutions, and remediate issues in existing applications
• Producing quality documentation
• Participate in internal planning and reporting processes
• Work with Project Team Leads
• Ensure standards are followed as directed by Project Team Leads
• Participate in special projects as required

Requirements:

• Clearance:
• Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance

• Education:
• Bachelors degree or prior, relevant experience in lieu of a degree
• Experience:
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience
• Experience with implementation and administration of DevOps environments
• Experience designing, implementing, troubleshooting, analyzing, and maintaining on prem and cloud DevOps environments
• Experience managing, configurating, and supporting DevOps environments
• Experience performing DevOps environment upgrades
• Experience creating and presenting technical specifications and requirements
• Experience producing quality documentation
• Experience working with Federal government clients

• Preferred Skills:
• DevOps knowledge and experience
• Cloud knowledge and experience
• Microsoft 365 knowledge and experience a plus
• SharePoint knowledge and experience a plus
• Cyber Security knowledge and experience a plus
• Platform and data migration knowledge and experience a plus