Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Skylight, a digital consultancy reinventing government services, as a DevOps Engineer. You will collaborate with developers throughout the software development lifecycle, ensuring reliable and repeatable code releases. Responsibilities include developing infrastructure for public health tooling, enhancing developer experience through automation, and upholding technical excellence through lean-agile principles. You will also protect sensitive data, conduct security audits, and implement remediations. The ideal candidate possesses experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform), strong communication skills, and a passion for improving public services. Skylight offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a flexible, remote-friendly work environment.

Requirements

• Experience building and maintaining robust, secure on-premises infrastructure solutions
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools, particularly Terraform
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate across technical and non-technical audiences
• Comfort engaging directly with end users and client stakeholders to understand needs and communicate solutions
• Ability to clearly articulate technical, design, and business tradeoffs when making decisions
• Demonstrated ability to learn, understand, and modernize legacy systems
• Understanding of the general concepts of modern software development and ability to work closely with software engineers
• Comfort with developing infrastructure that is intended for handoff to customers or other partners
• Ability to build solutions that interface with cloud systems in a cloud-centric world
• Ability to enable teams to deliver value to users and the business continuously (e.g., CI/CD pipelines)
• Knowledge of how to build secure, compliant applications and defend against common vulnerabilities
• Ability to work with software engineers to instrument applications and configure infrastructures for monitoring, metrics, alerting, logging, auditability, and compliance
• Knowledge of how to create and maintain your infrastructure as code and standardize deployment processes
• Ability to work successfully within a professional services environment (e.g., can communicate effectively with clients)
• Passion for creating better public outcomes through great government services
• A mindset and work approach that aligns with our core values
• Ability to travel for work from time to time

Responsibilities

• Develop infrastructure to support critical public health tooling for state, local, territorial, and tribal partners
• Engineer a great experience for developers who are working in web-based environments such as Ruby, Python, Java, and Node.js through automation, virtualization, and process improvement
• Achieve technical excellence by advocating for and adhering to lean-agile engineering principles and practices such as simple design and automated testing
• Protect sensitive data by applying security and privacy best practices
• Conduct security audits and risk analyses
• Plan and implement remediations
• Select and use the right tools, frameworks, languages, and technologies for the job, with a preference for open-source solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience flexing into software development tasks as part of a delivery team
• Experience with legacy system modernization efforts
• Experience with Docker and containerized services, including Kubernetes
• Comfort working in a variety of cloud platforms
• Knowledge of how to operate in highly regulated government environments (FedRAMP, FISMA, etc.)
• Familiarity with healthcare technology and standards (HL7, FHIR, etc)
• Prior experience working in the civic tech space
• Experience working in a remote team environment

Benefits

• Medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Dependent care FSA, healthcare FSA, health savings account
• Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 10% of your salary with no vesting period
• Flexible paid-time-off policy (generally around 25 days per year), plus 11 paid federal holidays
• Up to 12 weeks paid-time-off for all eligible new birth, adoption, or foster parents
• Performance rewards, including annual salary increase, annual performance bonus, spot bonuses, and stock options
• Business development / sales bonuses
• Referral bonuses
• Annual $2,000 allowance for professional development
• Annual $750 allowance for tech-related purchases
• Annual swag budget of $100 to display your Skylight pride with some merchandise (hoodies, hats, and more)
• Dollar-for-dollar charity donation matching, up to $500 per year
• Flexible, remote-friendly work environment
• An environment that empowers you to unleash your superpowers for public good