Job#: 3039266 Job Description: IT - Engineer II
Location: Home, Arkansas (Remote)
Role Overview
Our organization is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join a team of qualified, diverse professionals supporting a high-visibility modernization effort. The ideal candidate will play a key role in maintaining and advancing the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) ecosystem. This position is critical in driving automation, enhancing infrastructure scalability, and supporting mission-essential production operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain, enhance, and support CI/CD pipeline components for production implementation across monthly release cycles.
- Design and manage automated build, test, and deployment workflows, ensuring reliability and compliance.
- Monitor pipeline health, identify bottlenecks, and troubleshoot deployment issues across various environments.
- Implement and maintain infrastructure-as-code solutions using tools such as Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
- Support containerized application deployment leveraging Kubernetes, Docker, and orchestration best practices.
- Manage cloud infrastructure using expert-level knowledge of AWS services.
- Integrate DevSecOps principles into pipelines, including automated security scanning and vulnerability management.
- Develop automation scripts and tooling in languages such as Python, Java, or Go.
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting capabilities using solutions like AWS CloudWatch or Datadog.
- Collaborate with development, QA, security, and operations teams in an Agile environment.
- Document system configurations, pipeline designs, and operational procedures.
- Provide on-call or escalation support for production deployments and critical incidents as required.
Required Qualifications
Education & Experience:- 5 years of experience with a BS/BA degree; 3 years with an MS/MA degree; or 0 years with a PhD.
- Demonstrable experience supporting and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in enterprise-scale environments.
Technical Skills:- Expert-level proficiency with AWS services and cloud-native architectures.
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code technologies (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Proficiency with containerization and orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Docker).
- Experience with monitoring and observability tooling (CloudWatch, Datadog, or comparable).
- Proficiency with at least one programming language such as Python, Java, or Go.
- Experience implementing DevSecOps practices within CI/CD workflows.
- Knowledge of Agile software development methodologies.
- Strong troubleshooting skills for complex, distributed systems.
- Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- U.S. Citizenship may be required for specific projects.
Preferred Qualifications
- AWS DevSecOps Engineer certification.
- Additional AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator, Developer).
- Experience supporting large-scale or federal enterprise environments.
- Experience with compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, NIST, RMF).
- Experience automating zero-downtime or blue/green deployments.
- Background with GitOps practices and tooling (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux).
- Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
- Familiarity with legacy-to-cloud modernization or hybrid cloud environments.
- Knowledge of secure network architectures and IAM best practices.
Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
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Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.
Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.
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