REMOTE: DEVOPS/SYSTEM RELIABILITY ENGINEER
Flexion is seeking Remote DevOps Engineers to join our Flexion team to support a large agile health IT program in the Maryland/Virginia/Washington DC area. Hybrid of client onsite and remote work. The team’s mission is to improve the program in the areas of security, reliability, and efficiency.
In this role you must possess excellent problem-solving skills and deep technical knowledge with a strong aptitude for appreciating the focus, scope, and impact of your work in a much wider and forward-looking software landscape. You should also be able to demonstrate a history of technical leadership, excellent communication, and a positive attitude.
Collaborate with team members to develop tools that support several product development teams. Also, work directly with two or three product development teams as an “Embedded Liaison”. Spend about half of your time with your teams as a Liaison, and the other half is spent working with the cloud services team to build tools and solutions.
REQUIRED SKILLS:
- AWS, experience in some of the following is needed: RDS, EC2, Dynamo, S3, Redshift, VPC, Scaling Groups, Load Balancers, Route53, KMS, CloudFormation, ECS
- Expertise in DevOps tooling & automation including Docker, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, Packer
- Hands on experience in virtualization and containerization with Docker
- Strong core Linux networking, shell scripting & administration skills
- Experience building and operating CI / CD tools & pipelines
- Expertise in cloud infrastructure security & IAM privilege management
- Experienced deploying and managing a wide array of web app components and supporting platforms such as Apache, nginx, Node.js, Redis, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Postgres, Kong
- Experience with security, monitoring and analysis tools such as Splunk, SonarQube, Nexus, NewRelic, Nessus
- Fluency with agile methods including SAFe/Scrum
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of experience
PREFERRED SKILLS:
- Strong communication skills
- Experience working in a Federal Government setting
- Strong organizational skills
- Ability to balance multiple projects at once
- Ability to prioritize in a fast-paced environment
EXPECTATIONS:
- Speak openly and honestly about problems and proposed solutions
- Apply an attitude of servant leadership in a technical leadership role
- Welcome and handle changing requirements and priorities with little or no warning
- Collaborate in small groups online about 50% of the time
- Encourage simple and minimal solutions that keep options open
- Expect and vocally advocate for quality first
- Learn new practices and techniques as the situation demands
- Ensure the teams develop demonstrable software every week or two
- Do what needs to be done to deliver the product or project
- Relentlessly improve yourself, your team, and your processes
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