DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join the CDC Foundation as a DevOps Engineer to advance its mission by providing engineering and technical guidance for critical applications in a public health organization. This role will drive improvements in security, agility, responsiveness, and efficiency of software delivery processes through automation and optimization of existing deployment architectures and processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or related field
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience working as a DevOps Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
• Experienced in software delivery in a production setting, with emphasis on reliability, automation, testing, measuring, and scaling infrastructure
• In-depth knowledge of DevOps tools and system architectures including data, application, security, and network architectures
• Experience in usage of CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or GitLab
• Hands on experience working in cloud-based environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP) including provisioning and managing resources using tools like Azure Bicep or CloudFormation
• Solid understanding of ‘Infrastructure as Code’ principles and using related tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet) in a production setting
• Proficient in scripting languages (e.g., Python, bash, PowerShell). Proficient in Linux for administration and troubleshooting tasks and experience with Windows Server environments
• Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or Splunk
• Familiarity with agile development methodologies, software design patterns, and best practices
• Outstanding interpersonal and teamwork skills; and the ability to develop productive working relationships with colleagues, stakeholders, and partners
• Experience working in a virtual environment with remote partners and distributed teams

Responsibilities

• Help build, monitor, and lead the implementation of new and ongoing DevOps and automation pipelines within the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
• Work across product lines and cross functional teams with focus on enhancing efficiency, reliability and security of the software, data products, deployment, and delivery processes
• Act as a bridge between development and IT Operations teams in automating the software deployment and configuration management processes for the identified projects
• Develop, maintain, and oversee deployments in cloud (Azure Cloud) and hybrid-cloud environments
• Enhance observability practices in-use and help build tools for better monitoring, logging, and alerting to proactively collect data about applications, notify on errors, resolve issues, and improve visibility/observability into application behavior
• Act as DevOps Subject Matter Expert (SME) and drive adoption in the areas of containers, continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and cloud automation
• Facilitate training sessions for program and IT staff on using and effectively managing the pipelines. Foster DevOps adoption within the department and participate in DevOps focused guild activities
• Perform automation and monitoring surrounding the usage of Integration Engines (Rhapsody / Mirth) for processing HL7 messages
• Perform deployment, administration, monitoring and support activities for deploying and operating microservices on Azure
• Plan and develop a deployment and governance strategy for a DPH wide Application Programming Interface (API) tier
• Plan and develop a strategy for incorporating containers and container orchestration frameworks (Docker, Kubernetes, other)
• Prototype and provide guidance on Data Ops functions for automation surrounding analytic/scheduling frameworks (Spark, Air Flow, etc.)
• Develop success metrics for DevOps infrastructure and drive improvement toward those measures
• Participate in incident response activities across identified projects and mitigate issues
• Lead postmortem discussions and drive continuous improvement to prevent similar outages
• Work to provide developers with the best tools to ensure system uptime, performance and develop a DevOps mindset
• Conduct technology evaluations, provide architectural guidance, and aid in incorporating industry best practices
• Aid in load and performance testing efforts to ensure the application is ready to handle projected data volumes and traffic