Blue Tiger is looking for an experienced DevOps engineer to join our talented team of technologists.

Mission impact

For this role you will support the Office of Personnel Management in their mission to ensure hard working federal employees receive timely and accurate retirement benefits. You will support ongoing development and production environments and needs.

About Blue Tiger

Blue Tiger is a people-first, design-forward digital consultancy. We design organizations, build software, and craft experiences for the American people. You’ll be a key part of our small, but rapidly growing team of civic technologists excited about making an impact on how government serves citizens through technology.

What you’ll do:

Provide software development, continuous integration, software delivery, systems administration, software quality, and systems documentation support digital assets, including public-facing web sites and internal software tools
Meet with the Application Development Team and content contributors to develop and discuss strategies and plans for web products, to analyze web content needs, and to propose ways web products can address those needs
Assist with configuration, usage, and monitoring of cloud-based infrastructure services including but not limited to Azure, GitHub Actions, and MSSQL
Assist in building a strong technical foundation in build, release, and production using continuous integration tools and infrastructure provisioning tools
Engage with government personnel to understand requirements in order to develop better software and identify new ways in which the development team can easily solve issues
Collaborate with government personnel to build valuable tools that benefit the government’s day-to-day operations and broader missions
Represent Blue Tiger's culture of delivery excellence when interacting with government stakeholders and other contractors

What we’re looking for:

A minimum of three years of experience working as a DevOps engineer within a professional working environment, including:

Delivering software to a containerized cloud environment , with a focus on optimization, troubleshooting, and monitoring
Utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to develop, deploy, and maintain environments and services with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers (e.g. AWS, Azure, etc.)
Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, tooling, and processes to support development, deployment, and monitoring

Expertise setting up and using CI/CD tools
Ability to author developer-friendly documentation such as API documentation and deployment operations
Proven ability to apply good software engineering principles and practices
Ability to select and use the best tools for the job, particularly open-source solutions
Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences
Experience working within a scrum/agile development methodology and environment
Someone who is highly resourceful, reliable, and detail-oriented
Ability to think strategically around trade-offs and short term vs. long term benefits
Ability to build and form strong relationships with the internal team and external partners
An adaptive, empathetic, collaborative and positive mindset
Ability to quickly pick up new knowledge and absorb ecosystem dynamics and complexities
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, technical and otherwise
Ability to communicate technical concepts in plain language, both verbally and via written documentation to non-technical individuals
Proven record of balancing concurrent tasks, meeting deadlines and delivering quality results

We value diversity and inclusion and encourage all interested candidates to apply. If you have more experience beyond what is detailed here, we’d be happy to take a look. If you meet most but not all of the requirements, we highly encourage you to apply.

While our final exact salary range is yet to be determined, the anticipated annual salary range for this position is: $120,000 - $180,000, which would be converted to an appropriate, equivalent hourly rate for contract employees. Our immediate need is short-term, but there is possibility this can convert into a long-term requirement, at which point we would be open to converting to full-time employment if you are open to such an arrangement.

We participate in E-Verify and upon hire, will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

We're an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered Veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.

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