Senior/Staff Devops Engineer

About Skylight

Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help government agencies deliver better public services. We’re at the forefront of a civic movement to reinvent how all levels of government serve families, patients, and many others in today's digital world.

If you want to play a part in driving this critical movement forward, we’d love for you to join our growing team of public interest technologists. The work we do matters.

About the job

At Skylight, DevOps engineers work with developers throughout the software development life cycle to ensure code can be reliably and repeatedly released on demand with a high degree of quality. They understand both software development and operations, with expertise in areas such as networking, security, test automation, and continuous integration/deployment.

What you’ll do

• Develop infrastructure to support critical public health tooling for state, local, territorial, and tribal partners
• Engineer a great experience for developers who are working in web-based environments such as Ruby, Python, Java, and Node.js through automation, virtualization, and process improvement
• Achieve technical excellence by advocating for and adhering to lean-agile engineering principles and practices such as simple design and automated testing
• Protect sensitive data by applying security and privacy best practices
• Conduct security audits and risk analyses
• Plan and implement remediations
• Select and use the right tools, frameworks, languages, and technologies for the job, with a preference for open-source solutions

What we're looking for

Minimum qualifications

• Experience working with AWS cloud infrastructure, including deploying and managing services in enterprise or government environments
• Proficiency in Terraform for managing infrastructure as code in AWS-based environments
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate across technical and non-technical audiences
• Comfort engaging directly with end users and client stakeholders to understand needs and communicate solutions
• Ability to clearly articulate technical, design, and business tradeoffs when making decisions
• Demonstrated ability to learn, understand, and modernize legacy systems
• Understanding of the general concepts of modern software development and ability to work closely with software engineers
• Comfort with developing infrastructure intended for handoff to customers or other partners
• Ability to work in a cloud-centric world, which includes managing disparate, interconnected systems and ensuring the availability, reliability, and resiliency of these systems
• Ability to enable teams to deliver value to users and the business continuously (e.g., CI/CD pipelines)
• Knowledge of how to build secure, compliant applications and defend against common vulnerabilities
• Ability to work with software engineers to instrument applications and configure infrastructure for monitoring, metrics, alerting, logging, auditability, and compliance
• Knowledge of creating and maintaining your infrastructure as code and standardize deployment processes
• Ability to work successfully within a professional services environment (e.g., can communicate effectively with clients)
• Passion for creating better public outcomes through great government services
• A mindset and work approach that aligns with our core values
• Ability to travel for work from time to time

Nice-to-have qualifications

• Experience flexing into software development tasks as part of a delivery team
• Experience with legacy system modernization efforts
• Experience with Docker and containerized services, including Kubernetes
• Comfort working in a variety of cloud platforms
• Prior experience working in a hybrid cloud or on-prem environment
• Knowledge of how to operate in highly regulated government environments (FedRAMP, FISMA, etc)
• Familiarity with healthcare technology and standards (HL7, FHIR, etc)
• Prior experience working in the civic tech space
• Experience working in a remote team environment

Don’t meet 100% of the criteria but think you can do the job? We’d love to chat anyway! We’re on a mission to build diverse teams, and studies have shown that women and marginalized folks are less likely to apply to jobs if they don’t check every box.

Other requirements

• All work must be conducted within the U.S., excluding U.S. territories. Some federal contracts require U.S. citizenship to be eligible for employment.
• You must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future without sponsorship.
• As a government contractor, you may be required to obtain a public trust or security clearance.
• You may be required to complete a company background check successfully.
• Some of our available roles are on federal contracts that require a degree or additional years of experience as a substitute.

Position type

This is a full-time, exempt position.

Location

This is a fully remote position.

Care package

Salary

We want to give you the most competitive salary possible. After all, you deserve it! To that end, we use the results of our interview process to determine what salary is most appropriate given your current level of seniority. For a DevOps Engineer at Skylight, the current salary ranges are as follows:

• Associate DevOps Engineer: $90,000–$125,000
• DevOps Engineer I: $120,000–$140,000
• DevOps Engineer II: $135,000–$160,000
• Senior DevOps Engineer: $150,000–$185,000
• Staff DevOps Engineer: $170,000–$203,000
• Principal DevOps Engineer: $180,000–$230,000

Benefits

Your well-being is important to us, so we focus on supporting you in a variety of ways:

• Medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Dependent care FSA, healthcare FSA, health savings account
• Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 10% of your salary with no vesting period
• Flexible paid-time-off policy (generally around 25 days per year), plus 11 paid federal holidays
• Up to 12 weeks paid-time-off for all eligible new birth, adoption, or foster parents
• Performance rewards, including annual salary increase, annual performance bonus, spot bonuses, and stock options
• Business development / sales bonuses
• Referral bonuses
• Annual $2,000 allowance for professional development
• Annual $750 allowance for tech-related purchases
• Annual swag budget of $100 to display your Skylight pride with some merchandise (hoodies, hats, and more)
• Dollar-for-dollar charity donation matching, up to $500 per year
• Flexible, remote-friendly work environment
• An environment that empowers you to unleash your superpowers for public good

Interview tips

We want you to have a great interview experience with us! Here are some tips to help you prepare for a successful interview:

• Visit ourjoin page to learn more about how our interview process works.
• Check out ourCareer Pathways framework to learn more about the different roles within Skylight and the skills needed to do them.
• If you’d like to request reasonable accommodations during the application or interviewing process, please contact our recruiting team at [email protected].

We participate in E-Verify and upon hire, will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you’re authorized to work in the U.S.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable law.