THE COMPANY

ICF is a mission-driven company filled with people who care deeply about improving the lives of others and making the world a better place. Our core values include Embracing Difference; we seek candidates who are passionate about building a culture that encourages, embraces, and hires dimensions of difference.
Our Health Engineering Solutions team works side by side with customers to articulate a vision for success, and then make it happen. We know success doesn’t happen by accident. It takes the right team of people, working together on the right solutions for the customer. We are looking for a seasoned DevOps Engineer who will be a key driver to make this happen.
In this position, you will be part of the team building best in class health care reporting service. Learn and grow using AWS Infrastructure, DevSecOps, Agile Scrum, incremental delivery philosophy with highly supportive peers constantly sharing subject matter expertise.
Our core work hours are 10am - 4pm Eastern Time with the option to start earlier or work later depending on your time zone.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree is required.
• 5+ years of experience in setting up CI/CD Pipelines with integration with open-source plugins.
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps/Agile/Scrum environments and development.
• 5+ years of strong hands-on experience with configuration management, cloud orchestration and automation tools with AWS environments.
• 5+ years’ experience with provisioning and managing infrastructure as well as applications in AWS cloud environments.
• 3+ years of experience with identifying and implementing automation for Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment.
• 3+ years’ experience writing infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation or Amazon CDK

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:

• Outstanding writing and verbal communication abilities
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Working knowledge of Linux
• Candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
• Candidate must reside in the US, be authorized to work in the US, and work must be performed in the US
• Must be able to travel approximately 5%

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Bachelors degree preferred in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or other related scientific or technical discipline
• Design and implement automated monitoring capabilities to generate dashboards with trends, useful messages, and immediate notifications, and provide real-time metrics using Splunk or similar services.
• Knowledge of multi-account architecture, leveraging tools such as AWS Control Tower, SCPs, GuardRails, and Transit Gateways
• Wide technology experience that may include cloud architecture, cloud migrations, applications development, networking, security, storage, analytics, or machine learning
• AWS Solution Architect (Associate or Pro) certification.
• Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures such as NIST, FISMA, FedRamp and Common Criteria regulations and standards.
• Familiarity with the MLOps, machine learning lifecycle and product landscape, for example: Amazon SageMaker, Apache Airflow, Looker, Trifacta etc. You don’t need to be an expert in all these.
  Job Location: This position requires that the job be performed in the United States. If you accept this position, you should note that ICF does monitor employee work locations and blocks access from foreign locations/foreign IP addresses, and prohibits personal VPN connections.

• Implement best in class cloud-based solutions in AWS using infrastructure as code
• Deploy, setup, and run infrastructure configurations for various AWS services, utilizing Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform
• Engage with technical stakeholders including but not limited to application development, networking, infrastructure, information security, risk, enterprise identity and access management, and security operations
• Enable and optimize the automation of application and infrastructure environments
• Be part of a team where you collaborate to build cloud infrastructure, with an understanding of AMI, Containers and serverless functions
• Develop, maintain and improve continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for delivering features, fixes and system updates in development, integration and production environments.
• Set up, integrate, and maintain a scalable, stable set of CI/CD tools to support development, testing, and security scanning.
• Implement Amazon CloudWatch, Splunk and other third party monitoring solutions to provide continuous monitoring capabilities, track all aspects of the system, infrastructure, performance, application errors and roll up metrics.
• Analyze functional and non-functional business requirements, translate them into technical operational requirements, and propose CI/CD pipelines with tools and plugins.
• Making a big impact as part of a small team that’s pushing boundaries