DevOps Engineer II – OHS TTA Hub

Job summary

The DevOps Engineer II manages the hosting environment, delivery pipeline, and production operations for a training and technical assistance data platform supporting the Office of Head Start. The role maintains cloud.gov staging and production environments, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, monitoring, backups, and recovery; it also leads incident response, supports production cutover, maintains operational documentation, and provides evidence for the system’s Authorization to Operate.

Qualifications

• At least five years operating cloud applications and automating infrastructure, including at least two years maintaining CI/CD in Agile teams.
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• Experience with cloud PaaS environments; Cloud Foundry experience preferred.
• Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code.
• Experience implementing and maintaining application and infrastructure observability.
• Scripting experience supporting infrastructure and application operations.
• Experience with secrets management and Agile delivery environments.
• Experience responding to production incidents, diagnosing issues, and restoring services.
• U.S. citizenship required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance and obtain a Personal Identity Verification card.

Responsibilities

• Maintain cloud.gov staging and production environments.
• Manage deployments, infrastructure as code, configuration, and rollback processes.
• Operate CI/CD pipelines and automated security and quality checks.
• Manage application logs, metrics, alerts, backups, and recovery procedures.
• Own production monitoring, runbooks, and release verification.
• Participate in rotating urgent-issue escalation coverage as the primary engineer.
• Lead production incident diagnosis and restoration.
• Plan and support the initial production cutover.
• Maintain system administration, disaster recovery, and operations documentation.
• Provide configuration and continuous-monitoring evidence for the Authorization to Operate.

Skills

Degrees

Work schedule

Travel

Industry

Security clearance

Relocation