Senior DevOps Engineer

The Company

ICF is a mission-driven company filled with people who care deeply about improving the lives of others and making the world a better place. Our core values include Embracing Difference; we seek candidates who are passionate about building a culture that encourages, embraces, and hires dimensions of difference. 
 

@ ICF Next, we are fearless in finding new ways to solve problems, relentless in making sure it pays off for our clients and committed to making a positive change in the world. 
 

Join our community of mission-driven creatives, communicators, strategists, and technologists to challenge the status quo. 

What You’ll Do

• Lead the design and implementation of robust, scalable, and high-availability cloud infrastructures that support mission-critical applications. Leverage cloud platforms and best practices to ensure uptime, fault tolerance, and performance, while planning for future growth and evolving business needs.

• Treat security as an integral part of every phase of development, ensuring that secure design principles are applied from the start.

• Design and deploy comprehensive telemetry systems to monitor application performance, system health, and usage metrics.

• Ensure that the team has the tools it needs to effectively diagnose incidents as they happen and/or during later forensic analysis

• Build strong relationships with clients, product managers, and engineering teams, positioning yourself as a trusted advisor.

• Architect and implement automated CI/CD pipelines that streamline development, testing, and deployment workflows.

• Collaborate with application engineers to help them maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize their CI/CD pipelines. Provide guidance on best practices for automating deployments, continuous testing, and version control, ensuring that each pipeline supports a smooth and efficient development lifecycle.

• Provide mentorship to less experienced engineers, guiding them through complex technical challenges, offering constructive feedback, and encouraging a culture of continuous learning.

• Work closely with both internal and external stakeholders to establish clear goals, timelines, and deliverables for the project.

• Actively participate in agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives, and sprint reviews.
   

Basic Qualifications

• U.S. citizen or lawful Permanent Resident Aliens (green card) with at least three (3) years of U.S. residency from the date of legal entry in the U.S. 

• All work must be conducted within the U.S.

• Must be able to capable of receiving a Public Trust level clearance

• As a contractor to the federal government, all hires may be required to complete additional background screenings at the time of hire or any time thereafter as requested

• 6+ years deploying and operating highly trafficked, high visibility projects in cloud computing environments

• 3+ years automating CI/CD pipelines

• 3+ years deploying via one or more infrastructure management patterns, e.g., immutable infrastructure, canary deployments, blue/green deployments, etc.

• 2+ years writing infrastructure as code, ideally Terraform

• 1+ years managing and deploying Docker images to containerization platforms like ECS, Fargate, EKS, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience architecting complex systems

• Expertise managing system interactions and integrations

• Expertise with networking protocols, tools, and troubleshooting
   

Professional Skills

• Support multiple applications teams

• Modernize existing infrastructure, tooling, and processes

• Be a voice in ongoing operational decision-making

• An ability to solve problems even in unfamiliar circumstances

• An ability to manage and communicate work priorities; DevOps work often involves collaborating on previously unknown problems

• Strong oral and written communication skills and the willingness to use them

• A strong sense of ownership and engagement

Working at ICF

ICF is a global advisory and technology services provider, but we’re not your typical consultants. We combine unmatched expertise with cutting-edge technology to help clients solve their most complex challenges, navigate change, and shape the future.

We can only solve the world's toughest challenges by building an inclusive workplace that allows everyone to thrive. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to hiring regardless of any protected characteristic, such as race, ethnicity, national origin, color, sex, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status, or military/veteran status. Together, our employees are empowered to share their expertise and collaborate with others to achieve personal and professional goals. For more information, please read our EEO & AA policy.

Reasonable Accommodations are available, including, but not limited to, for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs, in all phases of the application and employment process. To request an accommodation please email [email protected] and we will be happy to assist. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations. Read more here: Requesting an Accommodation for the ICF interview process.

Read more about workplace discrimination rights, the Pay Transparency Statement, or our benefit offerings which are included in the Transparency in (Benefits) Coverage Act.

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