Remote Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Bixal as a Cloud Engineer to manage and maintain a moderately complex Drupal application and development team, ensuring reliability and security while supporting developers and enabling them to code quickly via automation, continuous integration, and modern open-source tools.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• At least 3+ years of relevant experience
• Advanced experience in cloud computing, including working knowledge of at least one major cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience collaborating with developers on dynamic web application stacks (e.g., LAMP, LEMP, MERN, MEAN, Django)
• Advanced experience with the Linux operating system (e.g., Debian, RHEL, Ubuntu, etc.)
• Advanced experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and DevOps tools and methodologies (e.g., Git, Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines)
• Advanced experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) principles and tools (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform)
• Advanced understanding of networking, security, and virtualization principles
• Experience using testing frameworks (e.g. Cypress) and testing web applications, APIs, and content management systems
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as DataDog
• Experience with identity and access management tools like IAM, OAuth and zero-trust security models
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Proven track record of driving innovation and best practices in the field of cloud computing
• Ability to pass and maintain a Public Trust Security Clearance

Responsibilities

• Create and help support developers build pipelines using common task runners like Gitlab, Bitbucket Pipelines, CircleCI, Travis CI, etc
• Create and support container images for web applications
• Automate container image scanning from various CVE and IAVA exploit lists
• Implement production and testing infrastructure utilizing infrastructure as code
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues related to cloud infrastructure and applications
• Ensure images follow best security practices and will pass various federal, PCI, and FEDRamp compliance (STIG and Authority to operate)
• Create appropriate container runtime systems to support our Team’s development of various federal datacenters (container orchestration)
• Support and improve legacy, VM based, pipelines and deployments
• Operate in a fast-paced Agile environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud security tools and services (e.g., AWS Security Hub, Azure Security Center, GCP Security Command Center)
• Experience with security frameworks (e.g., NIST SP 800-53, NIST SP 800-171, ISO 27001) and industry standards (e.g., CIS Benchmarks)
• Prior experience in Drupal CMS

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Flex hours
• Work from home flexibility
• 401K with matching incentive
• Parental Leave
• Medical/dental/vision benefits
• Flex Spending Account
• Company provided short-term disability
• Company provided life insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Generous PTO
• 11 Paid holidays
• Professional development opportunities
• New business referral bonus