Senior DevOps Engineer - job 1 of 2

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About Us:

Bixal is a consulting company based in Fairfax, VA, working alongside governments and organizations to help them deliver better services and experiences to the communities they serve. Using evidence-based knowledge and technology, Bixal empowers clients to deliver on their missions more effectively by fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement.

Location

This role can work remotely from anywhere in the USA. You must be legally authorized to work in the US. Bixal does not provide visa sponsorship.  

What will you do?

Bixal, a fast-growing agency providing holistic Digital Transformation to clients based in Fairfax VA, is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team. The Senior DevOps Engineer will provide support to Application Development and Design teams to maintain ongoing production needs as well as create new offerings on federal public facing websites and internal/external digital products. You will help ensure your team's success through modern agile and DevOps best practices. Your goal will to be ensure reliability and security while supporting developers and enabling them to code quickly via automation, continuous integration, and modern open-source tools.

This is a full-time position contingent on contract award by our client, with a defined performance period of up to three years. This role offers you a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact on a project that aligns with Bixal’s mission of delivering innovative, human-centered solutions. While the role has a fixed duration, we are committed to transparency and collaboration, keeping you informed about contract updates and new opportunities. At Bixal, we support your professional journey, ensuring your experience reflects our inclusive, purpose-driven culture and prepares you for future success.

• Provide software development, continuous integration, software delivery, systems administration, software quality, and systems documentation support to the client’s digital assets, including the client’s public-facing web site, as well as internal software tools;
• Meet with the Application Development Team and content contributors to develop and discuss strategies and plans for the client’s web products, to analyze web content needs, and to propose ways the client's web products can address those needs;
• Assist with configuration, usage, and monitoring of cloud-based infrastructure services including but not limited to AWS EKS, EC2, RDS, Lambda, Elastic Container Service, CloudFormation;
• Perform administration to Red Hat-based and CentOS-based systems and Apache-based and nginx-based web servers to include troubleshooting, monitoring and proactive problem fixing and documentation;
• Assist in building a strong technical foundation in build, release, and production using continuous integration tools such as Jenkins and infrastructure provisioning tools such Ansible;
• Engage with various client personnel to understand requirements in order to develop better software for the client and identify new ways in which the development team can easily solve client issues;
• Collaborate with the client on the design, development, and data teams to build valuable tools that benefit the client’s day-to-day operations and broader missions;
• Provide training and expertise on a variety of DevOps methodologies, technologies, best practices, and tools along with insight into new technologies and solutions that could help the Application Team and the client at large; and
• Assist in the development of Use Cases, Requirements Definition Documents, User and Administration Manuals, Detailed Design Specifications, and Training Manuals and Plans.
• Provide architectural expertise, documentation, and implementation for deploying and scaling applications to a multi-tenant cloud environment.
• Perform other duties as required.

• Bachelor Degree, plus at least 8 years of experience deploying and configuring infrastructure services, with at least 3 years of senior level experience using AWS IaaS
• Experience delivering software to an AWS EKS containerized cloud environment, with a focus on optimization, troubleshooting, and monitoring.
• Experience with Helm, Kubectl, Docker and customizing an AWS EKS cluster.
• Experience building, scanning and optimizing Docker images and working with AWS ECR.
• Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to develop, deploy, and maintain AWS environments and services to include AWS service catalog products.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, data pipelines, tooling, and processes to support development, deployment, and monitoring.
• Experience defining, deploying, and maintaining monitoring, metrics, and logging aggregation services on aCloud Native distributed application.
• Experience with AWS Prometheus and Grafana or New Relic.
• Expertise in configuring, deploying, and disaster recovery of services such as PostgreSQL RDS, AWS EKS, Jenkins and containerized workloads.
• Expertise in automating continuous delivery pipelines (Jenkins/Travis/Ansible).
• Experience designing, managing, and maintaining tools to automate operational processes with tools such as Chef or Puppet.
• Experience working with Github for source code management and planning.
• Experience working with Github Actions and webhooks.
• Experience managing cloud native applications in a EKS cluster deployed in a federal AWS environment.
• Experience working with open source and community solutions.
• Experience in FedRamp IaaS/SaaS.

Perks & Benefits:

Competitive base salary

Flex hours

Work from home flexibility

401K with matching incentive

Parental Leave

Medical/dental/vision benefits

Flex Spending Account

Company provided short-term disability

Company provided life insurance

Commuter benefits

Generous PTO

11 Paid holidays

Professional development opportunities

New business referral bonus

Please note that candidates selected may undergo a background investigation and, if applicable, meet eligibility requirements for suitability.

Bixal is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. It ensures equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, national origin, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are dedicated to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion within our organization and beyond.