About Us:

eSimplicity is a modern digital services company that works across government, partnering with our clients to improve the health and lives of millions of Americans, ensure the security of all Americans—from soldiers and veterans to kids and the elderly, and defend national interests on the battlefield. Our engineers, designers, and strategists cut through complexity to create intuitive products and services that courageously equip Federal agencies with solutions to transform today for a better tomorrow for all Americans.

Responsibilities:  

• Works with engineering team to develop, implement, optimize, and maintain cloud-based solutions.  
• Responsible for deploying and debugging cloud stacks, educating teams on new cloud initiatives, and ensuring the security of the cloud infrastructure.  
• Ensures efficient functioning of data storage and processing functions in accordance with standard security policies and best practices in cloud security. 
• Implementation and administrative (patching/maintenance/configuration etc.) support to all AWS or Azure Cloud services e.g. data warehouse and data pipeline, addressing issues, and supporting activities needed to maintain the Cloud AWS environment, such as user access/security/release/schedules management.  
• Manages cloud-based infrastructure (IaC) and services, using industry leading practices (automation techniques) to assure smooth application integration across the entire architecture.  
• Implements and administers a CICD (DevSecOps) pipeline for all systems, software, services, and infrastructure i.e. any project deliverables adopting hyper-automation techniques and mindset. Uses quality and security gates to manage CICD pipeline decision points to proceed from start to finish. 
• Performs installation and management of open-source monitoring tools. 
• Works on problems / projects of diverse complexity and scope collaborates with project teams and/or project partners i.e. other contract teams. 
• Develop scripts, automating and orchestrating daily operational tasks using AWS Cloud Formation/Terraform/Chef/Jenkins. Uses scripting or basic programming skills to solve problems.  
• Applies subject matter knowledge to solve common and complex data issues within established guidelines and recommends appropriate actions. 
• Troubleshoot identity management and authentication issues and provide resolution. 
• Ensures smooth operation of all systems, services, software and infrastructure through appropriate management, patching, preventative maintenance, monitoring, alerting, and real-time remediation of any discovered issues.  
• Serves as the engineer of complex technology implementations in a product-centric environment.  
• Conducts research, designs, and creates prototypes of new solutions to facilitate application growth and a seamless customer experience.  
• Identifies weaknesses in our tooling that will drive changes to the overall architecture, and work as a liaison to development and operations teams.  
• Works tirelessly to arm developers with the best tools and ensure system uptime and performance.  
• Works as part of an integrated project agile team, supporting daily operational incidents, change, and problem management cases.  
• Work with the technical leads to develop full production support, processes, documentation, and operations plan, including monitoring/alerting solutions.  
• Provide user access/security/release/schedules management. 
• Follow established Industry/Agency standards for implementing Cloud configurations, Architecture and Security. 
• Other duties as assigned. 

Required Qualifications:  

• Minimum of 4 years experience as a DevSecOps Engineer. 
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other related scientific or technical discipline. With eight years of general information technology experience and at least eight years of specialized experience, a degree is not required.  
• Experience in Administrating and Securing Cloud environments, such as AWS. 
• Experience Administering/Sizing Clusters, such as Redshift/Snowflake/DataBricks/Hadoop. 
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines, agile methodologies and DevSecOps styled deployments. 
• Expert knowledge of Cloud components such as DevSecOps scripts, S3 access management and applications configuration. 
• Experienced with tools such as AWS (server & serverless services), Ansible or Terraform, CloudFormations, Python, Jenkins, Git, Security scanning tools (Nessus, BurpSuite, Netsparker, OWASP, etc.), IaC (Infrastructure as Code) techniques for the full stack of Dev/Data Analytics. 
• Experience in data organization skills, partitioning strategies, and data retention policies for data pipeline. 
• Excellent investigative skills to find root cause for e.g. AWS Cloud problems, and unique problems that may extend beyond the typical DevSecOps arena, to perform impact analysis and/or solutions. 
• Experience with Atlassian Jira/Confluence 
• Ability to identify and create detailed requirements. 
• Comfortable with bridging the gap between legacy development or operations teams and working toward a shared culture and vision.  
• Ability to collaborate and coordinate with other contract Government resources. 
• Ability to exercise independent judgment within generally defined policies and practices to identify and select a solution. 
• Experience mentoring junior DevSecOps Engineers.  
• Strong proven analytical ability and ability to solve problems independently 
• Experience working in an agile or SAFe environment.?  
• Excellent command of written and spoken English.   
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance, residing in the United States 
• Strong desire to define solutions for complex problems in a diversity of contextual technical and business settings. 

Desired Qualifications: 

• Industry experience a plus (Medicare, Medicaid, Healthcare, or commercial insurance) or direct experience with government agency Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). 

Working Environment: 

eSimplicity supports a remote work environment operating within the Eastern time zone so we can work with and respond to our government clients. Expected hours are 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Eastern unless otherwise directed by manager 

Occasional travel for training and project meetings. It is estimated to be less than 25% per year.  

Benefits:  

We offer a highly competitive salary and full healthcare benefits. 

Equal Employment Opportunity:  

eSimplicity is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, age, status as a protected veteran, sexual orientation, gender identity, or status as a qualified individual with a disability.