Job Details

Works with IT developers to facilitate better coordination among operations, development, and testing functions by automating and streamlining integration and deployment processes. DevOps aims at coupling a tighter alignment between IT operations and businesses.

The TIERS Operations DevOps lead will design, implement, and deploy DevOps best practices; and will be responsible for establishing collaboration between HHS Social Services Applications development and TIERS Operations teams, automating processes, and integrating continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for all TIERS solutions and DEV/TEST/Production/DR environments, wether they are on-premise or in the cloud.

Extensive hands-on experience automating provisioning and deprovsioning of complex application environments comprising of a mix of monolith and moderanized Java applications, oracle databases, IBM Websphere ND, IBM MQ, different COTs products, AWS and VM
Extensive experience in implementing end-to-end environment automation across various layers with minimum manual input
Extensive experience on Terraform, Ansible, AWS SDK, Git, Gitops and/or similar CI/CD tools for automated delivery of environments
Extensive experience with scripting languages like Python, Boto3 to automate toil.
Experience building advanced logging and diagnostics capabilities in automation
Experience to develop frameworks for cloud infrastructure management where reusability, operational cost, time-to-market and product quality are all core elements
Experience in implementation of monitoring and alerting solutions such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Splunk and/or similar technologies
Experience in Orchestrate and maintaining Docker, Kubernetes and/or EKS clusters for containerized applications
Experience with state eligibility systems, either State of Texas or other states, experience in integration with Federal agencies (CMS, Federal Hub...)
Experience in designing and implementing automation solutions suitable for AWS and/or hybrid cloud implementation
Experience with designing secure and scalable network and storage solutions in AWS Cloud environment
Experience in SRE practices, Chaos engineering, Blue Green Deployments
Experience in collaboration with development and operations teams to ensure high availability, reliability, and security of AWS and/or similar services
Demonstrable experience in performance tuning and optimization of cloud infrastructure
Hands-on experience with Agile Development Methodologies (preferably Scrum)
Hands-on working experience with JBOSS, Data Power, ISAM, Okta/Sailpoint, PostgreSQL, Informatica