Infrastructure Lead

C-HIT•Columbia, MD

8d•Remote

About The Position

The primary responsibilities of the position include but are not limited to: Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available AWS cloud infrastructure. Troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, application, and deployment issues across environments. Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployments, patching, scaling, and operational tasks. Architect and optimize ECS EC2-based containerized workloads supporting LMS and portal applications. Design resilient multi-tier application architectures including frontend, middleware, APIs, and databases. Review and improve AWS infrastructure for performance, cost optimization, scalability, and reliability. Adhere to security and data protection requirements by implementing low-latency, high-availability, and high-performance features. Support vulnerability scanning, patching, compliance audits, and remediation activities. Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions. Maintain/improve operational dashboards and health monitoring solutions. Participate in the Agile Scrum and Kanban ceremonies to track and share updates on assigned responsibilities.

Requirements

Experience working for CMS or other federal agencies.
Minimal of AWS Associate certification.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
Minimum 5+ years of experience supporting AWS Cloud infrastructure.
Minimum 2+ years of experience with Relational databases (Oracle, Postgres, etc).
Minimum 4+ years of experience with API Gateway tools such as Layer7 gateway, Kong, AWS APIG, etc .
Experience supporting containerized applications and microservices architectures.
Experience with build/SCM tools such as Maven, Docker, Terraform, Podman, etc.
Proven oral and written skills to effectively communicate with external and internal stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

CSOD Experience
Automated patching and compliance tooling
Cost optimization/Finops Practices
Experience with ECS Fargate migrations or modernization initiatives.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available AWS cloud infrastructure.
Troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, application, and deployment issues across environments.
Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployments, patching, scaling, and operational tasks.
Architect and optimize ECS EC2-based containerized workloads supporting LMS and portal applications.
Design resilient multi-tier application architectures including frontend, middleware, APIs, and databases.
Review and improve AWS infrastructure for performance, cost optimization, scalability, and reliability.
Adhere to security and data protection requirements by implementing low-latency, high-availability, and high-performance features.
Support vulnerability scanning, patching, compliance audits, and remediation activities.
Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions.
Maintain/improve operational dashboards and health monitoring solutions.
Participate in the Agile Scrum and Kanban ceremonies to track and share updates on assigned responsibilities.