CivicActions is a mission-minded company. We focus on helping the government deliver better services through modern software practices. We work in cross-functional, agile teams and communicate openly and honestly. We encourage a balanced, autonomous lifestyle. We are looking for others like us with a true passion for using technology to change our world positively.
CivicActions works with government agencies to build human-centered digital services that connect constituents to their institutions through excellent digital experiences and greater government transparency and accountability. We are looking for others like us with a true passion for using technology to make a positive change in our world.
This position will join our cross-functional and highly collaborative team developing the next generation of digital services, using modern technologies and practices.
This position is remote (work from home), requires a federal background investigation and US residence for 3 of the last 5 years.
Responsibilities
- Break down complex problems into understandable and iterative solutions
- Infrastructure-as-code development and operations on Kubernetes environments using Docker and Helm
- Familiarity with AWS services including EKS, RDS, S3, CloudWatch and managing infrastructure using Terraform
- Continuous integration & continuous deployment with tools such as Gitlab CI, Github Actions or Jenkins
- Create and maintain documentation, timely and detailed ticket updates and communications around work
- Planning and implementing migration of systems and applications between hosts with minimal downtime
- Can work both collaboratively and solo, with experience navigating complex troubleshooting scenarios
Requirements
Must
- At least six years of DevOps, SRE, IT, sysadmin, security, developer or other relevant experience
- Site reliability engineering (SRE) and on-call rotation - must be able to respond nights and/or weekends, as necessary
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-code development and operations on Kubernetes environments using Docker and Helm
- Familiarity with AWS services including EKS, RDS, S3, CloudWatch and managing infrastructure using Terraform
- Experience with continuous integration & continuous deployment
- Experience working in Agile and cross-functional teams (with users, developers, product managers, security and compliance)
Nice to have:
- Team leadership and/or cloud architecture experience
- Experience working with distributed teams
- Experience with Lagoon, Ansible, GNU/Linux, Apache, PHP and/or Drupal configuration
- Previous federal background investigation
