DevOps Engineer

Job Description

Zolon is a prime contractor with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that provides software development, maintenance, and support. This is a 4-year program providing HHS with Application Development, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Resource Planning, and Infrastructure Optimization. We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to support the Infrastructure Automation team.

Job Duties:
Design, develop, and maintain automated deployment of systems on AWS cloud.
Partner with cross-functional teams, such as Security, Architecture, Governance, and other teams to comply with governance and security requirements.
Automated monitoring of systems in production and troubleshooting.
Understand Architecture Design Patterns.
Ensures platform implementation has appropriate design patterns and coding standards in place. Continuously works toward secure and scalable solutions.
Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD), build, test, and maintain infrastructure and tools so that software can be developed and released.
Work with emerging technologies to develop solutions supporting development and migration (to AWS cloud) efforts that support the client's mission.

Required Skills:
Working knowledge of AWS and Cloud Computing concepts
Hands-on experience using Terraform as Infrastructure as Code/automation technology and one or more technologies for CI/CD systems like Jenkins, Kubernetes, ELK stack, Splunk, etc.
Hands-on experience with other IaC automation technologies like Ansible and CloudFormation.
Experience with Infrastructure Capacity Monitoring and Automated Scaling solutions.
1+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing container (Docker) solutions on Kubernetes or Amazon ECS.
Networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS, and TCP/IP
Using Git as a version control platform
Strong hands-on coding in one or multiple mainstream languages like Python, Java, etc.
Strong knowledge and hands-on experience in RDBMS

Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience/combined education.
Clearance: Candidates must have the ability to obtain and maintain an HHS Public Trust clearance.
Location: Washington, DC. Hybrid (on-site 2 days per week)