DevOps Engineer

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be working as a member of our Federal Services team to jointly design, architect, and implement software systems for our federal and government clients. This is an ideal job if you are someone that wants to be part of an intensely skilled team, values total ownership of your work, and can’t imagine a day without coding.

We’re looking for a creative, focused, technically curious individual who enjoys both designs as well as working hands-on with the code. If you are a DevOps Engineer, with professional experience with various cloud technologies, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) proponent, we want to speak to you!

Day-to-Day Impact

• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services-from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement to efficiently deliver solutions frequentlywith quality.
• Write code, build infrastructure as code, work with immutable “cloud” based environments and build the supporting automated toolsets to test and deploy the systems they develop.
• As a DevOps engineer, analyze, design and implement strategies for continuous deployments while ensuring high availability on the development, pre-production, and production environments.
• Maintain services (and supporting cloud infrastructure) once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.
• Establish strategy/toolset/framework for automating testing of services and products, develop best practices for test automation, and develop test suites.
• Design, develop and implement solutions based on a set of standards and processes which establish consistency across the enterprise data, reduce risk, and promote efficiencies in support of the organization’s goals and objectives
• Develop and provide training as needed
• Develop technical documentation as needed

Do you have experience in Windows support?, Do you have a Bachelor’s degree?, * A Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in related field or equivalent work experience can be substituted instead of a degree

• At least 1-2+ years of experience in CI/CD pipelines (Harness, Ansible, Jenkins, sonarqube, sonartype nexus, etc) and infrastructure development (AWS, cloud formation, Terraform, RDS), windows build automation, windows system administration.
• At least 1-2 years of experience with revision code source code repositories in particular git and SVN
• At least 1-2 years of experience with strong and evolving competence in several programming languages and technologies, working knowledge of multiple tools sets, technologies and implementation environments
• At least 1-2 years of experience and understanding of typical three-tier enterprise application architectures
• At least 1-2 years of experience of practical Linux based systems administration skills and scripting experience in a Cloud-based environment.
• At least 1-2 years of experience with automating processes with one or more scripting languages such as ruby, Bash, and/or Python.

Kudos If You Have:

• Familiarity with Configuration Management
• Experience with delivery of an integrated solution using Agile software delivery techniques.
• Experience in System Engineering and project/program management.
• An interest in mastering the full software development stack, including DevOps, Frontend Development
• Experience championing test driven development (TDD)
• An interest in creating agentic systems, * Bachelor’s (Preferred)

Experience:

• DevOps: 1 year (Preferred)
• Coding: 1 year (Preferred)

Pulled from the full job description

• 401(k) 4% Match
• 401(k)
• Health insurance
• Retirement plan
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance, Data Surge offers a competitive compensation and total rewards package.
• Comprehensive Benefits
• Remote-first work environment
• PTO - Including holidays + your birthday
• 401(k) with 4% Match, immediately vested
• Growth and development opportunities
• Bonuses + more, * 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Compensation Package:

• Bonus opportunities

Application Question(s):

• Do you currently hold an active clearance?
• Are you willing to obtain a clearance if required for the role?
• As part of our hiring process, we conduct background checks on all potential candidates. Are you willing to undergo a background check if you are selected for further consideration?
• What are your salary expectations for the role?
• Due to the nature of the role with work within our government services team, U.S. Citizenship and current U.S. residency are required to meet federal eligibility requirements. Do you meet these requirements?

Data Surge is disrupting the services industry with cutting-edge technology that brings together the very best consultants from the big data, machine learning, and software modernization space.

At Data Surge, we value collaboration, curiosity, and being customer centric. Our team thrives on collective efforts, innovation, and a commitment to wellness, ensuring employees are empowered to thrive professionally and personally.