Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Career Team is a leading workforce development organization on a mission to transform lives. They are seeking a DevOps Engineer to build and operate the cloud platform that powers their Career EDGE platform, focusing on automation, scalability, and security.

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS using Infrastructure as Code
• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable safe, reliable, and frequent software deployments
• Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot containerized applications running on Kubernetes
• Automate operational workflows and eliminate repetitive manual processes through scripting and infrastructure automation
• Improve platform observability through logging, monitoring, metrics, alerting, and dashboards
• Optimize systems for performance, scalability, availability, security, and cost efficiency
• Partner with engineering teams to improve developer experience and deployment reliability
• Participate in production incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous operational improvements
• Implement security best practices across cloud infrastructure, identity management, networking, secrets management, and application delivery
• Support compliance initiatives for government-hosted environments, including AWS GovCloud deployments and security frameworks applicable to public sector software
• Help evolve our platform architecture while continuously improving automation, resilience, and operational excellence
• Participate as a collaborative member of an Agile Scrum team, contributing to planning, design discussions, and continuous improvement

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure, preferably on AWS
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar tools
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar technologies
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills
• Experience writing automation scripts using Bash, Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript
• Understanding of networking fundamentals, cloud security, IAM, DNS, TLS, and secrets management
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability solutions
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills
• Experience operating production workloads in AWS GovCloud or other regulated cloud environments
• Experience supporting applications that process sensitive or regulated data
• Familiarity with security and compliance frameworks such as NIST, FedRAMP, GovRAMP, SOC 2, or CJIS
• Experience with GitOps workflows and tools such as Argo CD or Flux
• Experience supporting Node.js services and MongoDB in production
• Experience optimizing cloud infrastructure for cost, scalability, and reliability
• Experience working within Agile software development teams

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