DevOps Engineer

September 20

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Description

• 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. • This role is aligned to the Workforce Acceleration Initiative (WAI). • Help build, monitor, and lead the implementation of new and ongoing DevOps and automation pipelines within the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. • Work across product lines and cross functional teams with focus on enhancing efficiency, reliability and security of the software, data products, deployment, and delivery processes. • Act as a bridge between development and IT Operations teams in automating the software deployment and configuration management processes for the identified projects. • Develop, maintain, and oversee deployments in cloud (Azure Cloud) and hybrid-cloud environments. • Enhance observability practices in-use and help build tools for better monitoring, logging, and alerting to proactively collect data about applications, notify on errors, resolve issues, and improve visibility/observability into application behavior. • Act as DevOps Subject Matter Expert (SME) and drive adoption in the areas of containers, continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and cloud automation. • Facilitate training sessions for program and IT staff on using and effectively managing the pipelines. • Perform automation and monitoring surrounding the usage of Integration Engines (Rhapsody / Mirth) for processing HL7 messages. • Perform deployment, administration, monitoring and support activities for deploying and operating microservices on Azure. • Plan and develop a deployment and governance strategy for a DPH wide Application Programming Interface (API) tier. • Plan and develop a strategy for incorporating containers and container orchestration frameworks (Docker, Kubernetes, other). • Prototype and provide guidance on Data Ops functions for automation surrounding analytic/scheduling frameworks (Spark, Air Flow, etc.). • Drive continuous improvement to prevent outages. • Conduct technology evaluations and provide architectural guidance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or related field. • Minimum of five (5) years of experience working as a DevOps Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer (SRE). • Experienced in software delivery in a production setting, with emphasis on reliability, automation, testing, measuring, and scaling infrastructure. • In-depth knowledge of DevOps tools and system architectures including data, application, security, and network architectures. • Experience in usage of CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or GitLab. • Hands on experience working in cloud-based environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP) including provisioning and managing resources using tools like Azure Bicep or CloudFormation. • Solid understanding of ‘Infrastructure as Code’ principles and using related tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet) in a production setting. • Proficient in scripting languages (e.g., Python, bash, PowerShell). Proficient in Linux for administration and troubleshooting tasks and experience with Windows Server environments. • Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes. • Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or Splunk. • Familiarity with agile development methodologies, software design patterns, and best practices. • Outstanding interpersonal and teamwork skills; and the ability to develop productive working relationships with colleagues, stakeholders, and partners. • Experience working in a virtual environment with remote partners and distributed teams.