Junior DevOps Engineer

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

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. With four years of general information technology experience and at least two years of specialized experience, a degree is not required
• 2-4 years of DevSecOps experience with cloud architecture, CI/CD pipelines, release management, security tools, managing multiple applications and environments (e.g. development, testing, UAT, staging, production). 
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools, log aggregation, and security tools within the Platform
• Experience with Data Deploy and Data Loader
• Knowledgeable platform capabilities, governor limits, Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Web Components, APIs, and declarative development tools
• Knowledgeable of testing frameworks and best practices for automated testing
• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools including Terraform, AWS CloudFormation and configuration management tools such as Ansible
• Familiarity with AWS Cloud is a plus

Desired Qualifications:

• DevSecOps Fundamentals I and Fundamentals II 
• Certified Administrator

Work Environment

eSimplicity supports a remote work environment operating within the Eastern time zone so we can work with and respond to our government clients. Expected hours are 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Eastern unless otherwise directed by manager.

Occasional travel for training and project meetings. It is estimated to be less than 5% per year.

Benefits:
We offer a highly competitive salary and full healthcare benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity:
eSimplicity is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, age, status as a protected veteran, sexual orientation, gender identity, or status as a qualified individual with a disability.