Senior DevOps Engineer

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.
Fairfax, VA, USA
DevOps
Senior Software Engineer
Remote
3+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS

Description For Senior DevOps Engineer

Bixal is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join their team in managing and maintaining a moderately complex Drupal application. This role focuses on ensuring reliability and security while supporting developers through modern agile and DevOps best practices. The ideal candidate will work on automating processes, implementing continuous integration, and utilizing open-source tools. The application must adhere to FISMA and NIST guidelines.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Creating and supporting build pipelines using task runners like Gitlab, Bitbucket Pipelines, CircleCI, and Travis CI
  • Developing and maintaining container images for web applications
  • Implementing production and testing infrastructure using infrastructure as code
  • Troubleshooting complex cloud infrastructure and application issues
  • Ensuring security best practices and compliance with federal, PCI, and FEDRamp standards
  • Supporting container orchestration in various federal datacenters
  • Improving legacy VM-based pipelines and deployments

The ideal candidate will have:

  • A Bachelor's Degree with 3+ years of relevant experience
  • Advanced experience in cloud computing, Linux operating systems, and containerization technologies
  • Expertise in DevOps tools, infrastructure as code, and web application stacks
  • Strong understanding of networking, security, and virtualization principles
  • Experience with monitoring tools, identity management, and testing frameworks
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Bixal offers a competitive salary, flexible work arrangements, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional development. This role can work remotely from anywhere in the USA, but candidates must be legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship.

Last updated 10 days ago

Responsibilities For Senior DevOps Engineer

  • Create and help support developers build pipelines using common task runners like Gitlab, Bitbucket Pipelines, CircleCI, Travis CI, etc.
  • Create and support container images for web applications
  • Automate container image scanning from various CVE and IAVA exploit lists
  • Implement production and testing infrastructure utilizing infrastructure as code
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues related to cloud infrastructure and applications
  • Ensure images follow best security practices and will pass various federal, PCI, and FEDRamp compliance (STIG and Authority to operate)
  • Create appropriate container runtime systems to support our Team's development of various federal datacenters (container orchestration)
  • Support and improve legacy, VM based, pipelines and deployments
  • Operate in a fast-paced Agile environment

Requirements For Senior DevOps Engineer

Linux
Kubernetes
  • Bachelor's Degree, at least 3+ years of relevant experience
  • Advanced experience in cloud computing, including working knowledge of at least one major cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • Experience collaborating with developers on dynamic web application stacks (e.g., LAMP, LEMP, MERN, MEAN, Django)
  • Advanced experience with the Linux operating system (e.g., Debian, RHEL, Ubuntu, etc.)
  • Advanced experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and DevOps tools and methodologies (e.g., Git, Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines)
  • Advanced experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) principles and tools (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform)
  • Advanced understanding of networking, security, and virtualization principles
  • Experience using testing frameworks (e.g. Cypress) and testing web applications, APIs, and content management systems
  • Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as DataDog
  • Experience with identity and access management tools like IAM, OAuth and zero-trust security models
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills
  • Proven track record of driving innovation and best practices in the field of cloud computing
  • Ability to pass and maintain a Public Trust Security Clearance

Benefits For Senior DevOps Engineer

401k
Commuter Benefits
Dental Insurance
Medical Insurance
Parental Leave
Vision Insurance
  • 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

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