DevOps Engineer – San Antonio

The CDC Foundation helps the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) save and improve lives by unleashing the power of collaboration between CDC, philanthropies, corporations, organizations and individuals to protect the health, safety and security of America and the world. The CDC Foundation is the go-to nonprofit authorized by Congress to mobilize philanthropic partners and private-sector resources to support CDC’s critical health protection mission. Since 1995, the CDC Foundation has raised over $1.9 billion and launched more than 1,300 programs impacting a variety of health threats from chronic disease conditions including cardiovascular disease and cancer, to infectious diseases like rotavirus and HIV, to emergency responses, including COVID-19 and Ebola. The CDC Foundation managed hundreds of programs in the United States and in more than 90 countries last year. Visit www.cdcfoundation.org for more information.  

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 the City of San Antonio Metropolitan Health District, Epidemiology Analytics and Informatics Center, the DevOps Engineer will drive optimizations and improvements in the security, agility, responsiveness, and efficiency of deployment environments and applications. The candidate will bridge the gap between legacy development/operations teams and the shared culture and vision. The main project for this position will be the Enhanced Disease Surveillance System. This is an information systems improvement project that will serve the City of San Antonio Metropolitan Health District’s communicable disease division programs: Epidemiology, HIV/STI program, and TB. The system must integrate with the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) National Electronic Disease Surveillance System Base System (NBS). The DevOps Engineer will be hired by the CDC Foundation and assigned to the City of San Antonio Metropolitan Health District, Epidemiology Analytics and Informatics Center. This position is eligible for a fully remote work arrangement for U.S. based candidates.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Assist application teams in deploying code regularly and as …