[Remote] DevOps Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Oxenham Group is seeking a DevOps Engineer to improve the availability, reliability, recoverability, and observability of enterprise applications and services across cloud and hybrid environments. The role focuses on reliability engineering, CI/CD, DevSecOps, containerized applications, automation, incident response, disaster recovery, and operational support for public sector government contracting environments.
Responsibilities
- Define, implement, and monitor SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and other reliability metrics
- Design and improve observability — metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, monitoring, and alerting
- Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for large enterprise environments
- Implement DevSecOps practices across the build, test, security-scan, release, and deploy lifecycle
- Develop, deploy, and maintain containerized applications using enterprise container platforms
- Automate recurring operational work via scripting, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud-native tooling
- Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews
- Identify reliability and performance risks and implement corrective actions
- Support disaster recovery planning, testing, and implementation
- Troubleshoot application, infrastructure, deployment, and integration issues across cloud and hybrid environments
- Collaborate with engineering, architecture, security, and operations teams on reliable, secure solutions
- Provide technical guidance and operational support to multiple engineering teams
- Evaluate processes and identify opportunities to improve automation, reliability, and deployment efficiency
- Participate in after-hours and on-call activities as required by the program
Skills
- • Bachelor's in a related field + 4 years relevant experience and an Associate/Professional-level cloud certification (AWS or Azure), or
- • 6 years of on-the-job experience in lieu of degree and certification
- • (4+ years in SRE, DevOps, DevSecOps, cloud, software, or systems engineering), including:
- • Supporting production applications in public or hybrid cloud environments
- • CI/CD pipelines, automated builds, testing, release management, and deployment — using GitLab CI/CD or a comparable enterprise platform
- • Git or comparable version control
- • Building and maintaining containerized applications with Docker and Kubernetes, OpenShift, or comparable
- • Monitoring, logging, alerting, and metrics/observability tooling
- • Production incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis
- • Scripting/automation (Python, Bash, PowerShell, or comparable)
- • Infrastructure-as-code and configuration management (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or comparable)
- • Active Public Trust or clearance (USDA preferred)
- • Experience with large enterprise environments (hundreds of applications, multiple teams)
- • AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or other government cloud
- • Systems subject to FISMA, FedRAMP, or NIST
- • Production Kubernetes administration and orchestration
- • Observability platforms and distributed tracing (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Splunk, OpenTelemetry)
- • Disaster recovery, performance engineering, resilience, and operational readiness
- • Security/compliance automation within CI/CD pipelines
- • Multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud migrations, modernization, and operational transitions
- • Direct experience with government customers and program leadership
- • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
- • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional
- • Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
- • Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
- • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- • FinOps, security, or automation certifications relevant to the role
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