DevOps Engineer - Boston

Job Highlights· Location: Remote, must be based in the United States· Salary Range: $115,000-$165,000, plus benefits· Position Type: Grant funded, limited-term opportunity· Position End Date: June 30, 2025

Overview

• The DevOps Engineer will play a crucial role in advancing the CDC Foundation’s mission by providing engineering and technical guidance for the design, planning, development, and delivery of critical applications in a public health organization. Working within Boston Public Health Commission, IT, Data modernization, the DevOps Engineer will drive optimizations and improvements in the security, agility, responsiveness, and efficiency of deployment environments and applications into cloud platform. The candidate will bridge the gap between legacy development/operations teams and the shared culture and vision.
• The DevOps Engineer will be hired by the CDC Foundation and assigned to the Boston Public Health Commission, IT, Data modernization. This position is eligible for a fully remote work arrangement for U.S. based candidates

Responsibilties

• Develop success metrics for DevOps infrastructure and drive improvement toward those measures.
• Create and improve monitoring systems to collect data about applications, notify on any errors, and improve visibility/observability into application behavior.
• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure. Select and deploy appropriate CI/CD tools in cloud platform.
• Assist application teams in deploying code regularly and as automatically as possible.
• Lead incident response and mitigate site errors as they occur.
• Lead postmortem discussions and drive continuous improvement to prevent similar outages.
• Work to provide developers with the best tools and ensure system uptime and performance.
• Conduct technology evaluations and provide architectural guidance.
• Explain products or services to people who have varying levels of technical knowledge.
• Map specific inquiries to product capabilities, identifying the product that best meets the agency partner’s needs.
• Work on-call shifts, serving as first-line support for incidents. Drive down page frequency as low as possible.
• Use infrastructure-as-code (currently, but not limited to, Terraform) and configuration management (currently, but not limited to, Chef) to automate Centers of Excellence (CoE) and agency DevOps AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud infrastructure.
• Review code and consult with other engineers on new features and their implications for site performance, reliability, and security for the security of CoE and agency DevOps environments.
• Conduct load tests to ensure the application is ready to handle projected user traffic.
• Drive long-term improvement in CoE and agency DevOps system availability by removing single points of failure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related …