Junior DevOps Engineer

Summary

CTAC is seeking DevOps Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers to support one of their government contracts by ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information systems. The role focuses on creating automations to handle operations issues and involves working within a team to support various applications in both cloud and on-premises environments.

Responsibilities

• Support operations and maintenance of applications running on-premises and in the cloud
• Develop automated tooling and scripts to assist in reduction of manual effort in support of applications
• Contribute back to project software to improve processes, reduce technical debt, and/or increase visibility and monitoring
• Assist in debugging of applications, databases, and middleware across technologies, utilizing AI agents and code tooling to assist
• Configure monitoring, alerting, and notification tooling supporting cloud and on-premises applications
• Develop cloud-first applications, infrastructure as code, and tooling to improve business processes and/or reduce operations and maintenance efforts
• Support and maintain Identity Management Systems at federal client (Okta-based)

Skills

• 2+ years of experience in development and operations work, preferably supporting government systems
• Strong experience in at least one programming language, preference for comfort in a variety of scripting, interpreted, and/or compiled languages
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Experience with tools for vulnerability scanning, monitoring, and incident response
• Ability to document technical processes and architectures clearly
• Strong analytical and communication skills
• Experience managing linux and windows servers in a hybrid environment
• Ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance
• Experience using AI tools to shorten development cycles and reference issues and solutions
• AWS Cloud Certifications or similar
• Experience with database management systems, such as: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, etc

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 2+ years of experience in development and operations work, preferably supporting government systems
• Strong experience in at least one programming language, preference for comfort in a variety of scripting, interpreted, and/or compiled languages
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Experience with tools for vulnerability scanning, monitoring, and incident response
• Ability to document technical processes and architectures clearly
• Strong analytical and communication skills
• Experience managing linux and windows servers in a hybrid environment
• Ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance

Nice to Haves

• Experience using AI tools to shorten development cycles and reference issues and solutions
• AWS Cloud Certifications or similar
• Experience with database management systems, such as: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, etc