Sr. DevOps Engineer

Empower AI Inc.•Remote,

12h•Remote

About The Position

Empower AI is seeking a Sr. DevOps Engineer to join their infrastructure team supporting critical systems at USCIS. The role involves tackling complex technical challenges and building automated solutions. The engineer will mentor fellow engineers, architect scalable infrastructure solutions, and collaborate with a DevOps team supporting 14 development teams. This is an opportunity for a self-motivated engineer who thrives in fast-paced environments and wants to make a meaningful impact on systems that serve thousands of federal workers.

Requirements

Ability to receive DHS EOD suitability
U.S. Citizenship
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
5+ years of experience
Possession of strong verbal and written communication skills
Ability to work in a high-speed delivery focused environment
Ability to work on a fully remote team and maintain delivery tempo
Ability to learn quickly
CI/CD automated pipelines
AWS and its services (EKS, ECS, RDS, SQS, SES)
IAC Frameworks like Terraform and/or Cloudformation
Experience using and implementing Infrastructure As Code
Containerization best practices
Git or alternative source code repositories

Nice To Haves

Experience with monitoring and observability tools including New Relic and Splunk
Kubernetes or other container orchestration platform experience
Knowledge of streaming platforms like Kafka
Database administration experience (PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB)
Familiarity with JIRA and Confluence
Active GitHub profile (feel free to share!)

Responsibilities

Responding to infrastructure support requests; Triaging and investigating complexities
Supporting our ecosystem by performing tasks such as Ubuntu hardening, Terraform provisioning, automation via AAP (Ansible Automation Platform) and making updates to address vulnerabilities
Communicating with peers on issues, following/managing multiple MS Teams threads
Participating in daily and weekly agile ceremonies including standups, backlog grooming, and retrospectives
Supporting our ecosystem by performing tasks such as OS (Windows, Ubuntu, or any other Linux systems) hardening, deploying infrastructure with Terraform, Provisioning AMIs, making updates to address vulnerabilities
May need to support monthly patching on weekends (approx. 2 hours, team members will flex time during week)
Possession of strong verbal and written communication skills
Ability to proactively document knowledge
Ability to clearly articulate technical solutions to peers
Ability to work in a high-speed delivery focused environment
Ability to work on a fully remote team and maintain delivery tempo
Ability to adapt and learn new technologies quickly