Senior DevOps engineer

Health and Human Services (DHHS) requiresthe assistance of a Senior DevOps engineer to help automate and improve the environment/infrastructure provisioning, build,deploy and operation of Portfolio Applications.

The primary role is to work on the Automation effort of infrastructure and environment provisioning, containerization, build and deploy activities for portfolio applications. This position must demonstrate a solid understanding of AWS infrastructure, services, and software release life cycle.

This position will be responsible for automating and performing tasks associated with the infrastructure provisioning and maintenance, build and deploy processes for the application(s) using Ansible, cloud formation, Terraform, CI/CD Pipeline etc. This position will provide hands-on Automation support to Application development teams for the entire release management life cycle across multiple program areas as well as recommend process improvements keeping Agile and DevOps culture and practices in mind.

The position will work with IT management to improve the software engineering processes and practices associated with continuous integration and Continuous deployment (CI/CD) of application changes. This position will interact with the architects, developers, deployment Team, and Database Administrators to ensure automation of various tasks.

This position is required to be on call for evenings and weekends as required to meet business needs. Required/Desired Skills

Skill	Required /Desired	Amount	of Experience
Strong knowledge of infrastructure including on-prem, cloud, VPN, reverse proxy, private link, firewall, OWASP.	Required	5	Years
Hands-on experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Salt, Chef, Puppet using modular design such as Ansible Roles.	Required	5	Years
Experience in Git based devsecops including branching strategy, branch protection rules, source code hygiene by automation, and release strategy	Required	5	Years
Experience with Git commands, and can demonstrate stash, merge, interactive rebase, cherry pick.	Required	5	Years
Experience in CICD tools such as GHA, Jenkins, TeamCity, or Azure Devops. Must have development experience of these tools from grounds up.	Required	3	Years
Hands-on experience in IaC using tools like CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, Bicep.	Required	3	Years
Administration experience w/ AWS and Azure cloud including cross-account resource sharing, identity management, ID federation, RBAC, SSO w/ SAML.	Required	1	Years
Strong troubleshooting skills in a quick pace environment. Good team player.	Required	0
Knowledge and experience in J2EE-specific application hosting, application tracing/debugging, and application deployment.	Highly desired	7	Years

Questions

No.	Question
Question1	Absences greater than two weeks MUST be approved by CAI management in advance, and contact information must be provided to CAI so that the resource can be reached during his or her absence. The Client has the right to dismiss the resource if he or she does not return to work by the agreed upon date. Do you accept this requirement?
Question2	Please list some key efforts related to infrastructure/environment provisioning on AWS cloud platform in which the candidate has hands-on experience.
Question3	Please list CI/CD (Automation) tools/technologies on which the candidate has hands-on experience.
Question4	Please briefly describe containerization experience.
Question5	Please indicate how soon this candidate is available to start work. Vendors are encouraged to submit candidates that are available for the duration of the assignment.
Question6	will the candidate be subcontracted at the time of submission?
Question7	Vendor must notify the agency if any portion of the requirements listed in this task order are to be outsourced to other countries. Do you accept this requirement?
Question8	Payment for all approved hours will be paid at the straight hourly rate regardless of the total hours worked by the engaged resource. It is the responsibility of the supplier to adhere to any applicable compensation laws including payment for overtime hours. Do you accept this requirement?
Question9	Please confirm you have thoroughly validated, and attest to the accuracy of, the credentials listed throughout this candidate's VectorVMS profile and resume pursuant to Section 5.2.5 of ITS-009440. Do you confirm?
Question10	Please provide candidate's current location (City and state), NOT a Yes or No response.
Question11	Work currently can be performed remote with potential for onsite at the Client/manager's discretion.
Question13	Please list candidate's email address HERE that will be used when submitting E-RTR.

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