Description:
CTAC is seeking a Technical Lead to support one of our government contracts by ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information systems. The intent of this role is to work as a DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) treating operations issues as software issues, primarily focused on creating automations to handle issues, and falling back to runbooks or documentation as necessary.
This role focuses on functioning as a technical lead, leading a team of engineers supporting a variety of applications that range from on-premises,cloud, and platform-as-a-service offerings. An individual hired for this position will lead a shared service infrastructure team supporting application teams. The person will be responsible for supporting the team and providing technical direction as well as hands-on-keyboard support as needed. They will be responsible for ensuring coordinated standardized approaches, lessons learned are disseminated among the team, and skill sets are appropriately aligned with project needs.
The team's primary responsibilities will include configuration and management of application monitoring, logging, and CI/CD systems. Additional tasks will include supporting compliance and maintenance of these applications as extension of application project teams. These tasks will be performed across a variety of technologies and tooling, with a primary focus on AWS cloud hosted applications or migration to AWS cloud, while maintaining systems on-premises as necessary.
This position is hybrid in-person and remote-work with in-person effort expected up to three days a week as part of team work days, planning, and prioritizing a backlog of tasks. Job location is primarily in Northern Virginia, with potential travel to client sites (Washington DC).
Key Responsibilities
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Provide leadership and oversight of the shared service infrastructure team.
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Support operations and maintenance of applications running on-premises and in the cloud.
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Develop automated tooling and scripts to assist in reduction of manual effort in support of applications.
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Contribute back to project software to improve processes, reduce technical debt, and/or increase visibility and monitoring.
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Assist in debugging of applications, databases, and middleware across technologies, utilizing AI agents and code tooling to assist.
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Configure monitoring, alerting, and notification tooling supporting cloud and on-premises applications.
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Develop cloud-first applications, infrastructure as code, and tooling to improve business processes and/or reduce operations and maintenance efforts.
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Support and maintain Identity Management Systems at federal client (Okta-based)
Requirements:
Required Qualifications
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10+ years of experience in development and operations work, preferably supporting government systems.
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Strong experience in at least one programming language, preference for comfort in a variety of scripting, interpreted, and/or compiled languages
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Bachelors degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience).
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Experience with tools for vulnerability scanning, monitoring, and incident response.
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Ability to document technical processes and architectures clearly.
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Strong analytical and communication skills.
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Experience managing linux and windows servers in a hybrid environment
Preferred Qualifications
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Experience using AI tools to shorten development cycles and reference issues and solutions
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AWS Cloud Certifications or similar
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Experience with database management systems, such as: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, etc
Clearance Required: Ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance
CTAC is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. VEVRAA Federal Contractor
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- Dice Id: 10125504
- Position Id: 198
- Posted 14 days ago
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