DevOps Engineer

Who is Element?

We serve as a consulting partner at the intersection between innovation and our clients’ needs, efficiently crafting meaningful user experiences for government customers. As a HUBZone-certified business, we foster local economic development. We also lead digital transformation in government agencies. Join us to drive impactful change in government service delivery while contributing to meaningful initiatives focused on innovation, usability, and accessibility.

Why Work at Element?

We foster a supportive culture where collaboration and creativity flourish, even in a remote work setting, encouraging all to be in their element. With a continued commitment to diversity and inclusion, we ensure every voice is valued and heard, inspiring a place of belonging. Our human-centered approach extends beyond our services, with a culture that supports our team's mission of making a meaningful impact through technology, innovation, and user-centric design. Whether you're developing cutting-edge technology solutions or designing intuitive interfaces, your contributions will have a transformative effect on the lives of countless individuals, shaping how users engage with vital government services. Join us and have a far-reaching impact, resonating across diverse demographics, from communities to the families that build th

Position Overview

Element is looking for a DevOps Engineer with an unwavering passion for working in autonomous, self-directed teams to build complex systems using lean, agile mindsets—this means delivering incremental business value with each sprint and enabling options at all scales. For this project, you and your team will be operating and enhancing an enterprise platform to effectively consume and use the data to improve the healthcare experience of millions of Americans. You'll be part of a multi-disciplinary, agile application development team tasked with operating and enhancing an enterprise government system. The project work is primarily remote but may require some client on-site work estimated at <10%.

• Perform migration of infrastructure from one AWS environment to another.
• Working with other DevSecOps Engineers, Full Stack Software Engineers, Data Engineers and Data Analysts, strive to build and maintain infrastructure solution that is 100% automation of operations.
• Mobbing and pairing with your team to design, code, test, debug, deploy and document software in an agile environment.
• Tackle a wide variety of technical problems.
• Exercise your full tool-belt of skills and experience.

• A Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of application development experience.
• Strong collaborative and communication skills.
• A passion for learning new technologies and the ability to do so quickly.
• Ability to write high-quality code efficiently.
• Strong core Linux networking, shell scripting, and administration skills.
• Experienced in automation using infrastructure-as-code (IAC) with AWS CDK, Terraform, and/or CloudFormation - AWS CDK preferred.
• Working experience with container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Bias towards build & pipeline automation, proactive monitoring and shifting testing and security left with tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Packer, CloudBees Jenkins, Nexus, Splunk, SonarQube, NewRelic, Nessus.
• Expertise in cloud infrastructure security and IAM privilege management.
• Experience with AWS infrastructure components such as EC2, ECS, ECR, EKS, Lambda, RDS, Redshift, EMR, KMS, CloudFormation, Route53, Scaling Groups, etc.
• Experience in security aspects of cloud infrastructure, vulnerability scanning and remediation, threat modeling and detection, static and dynamic testing, and security documentation.
• Experience with automated unit testing, end to end testing, smoke tests striving for 100% automated test coverage
• Experience with application logging, monitoring, and alerting.
• Experience within CMS is a plus.
• US Citizenship or Permanent Residency required.
• Must reside in the Continental US.
• Depending on government agency, specific requirements may include public trust background check or security clearance.

Location

Be in your Element. We are a remote-first company based in Washington, DC.

Element is an equal opportunity employer  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected class. 

We believe in a world where solutions we build improve the lives of those who use them.