DevOps Engineer

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Confidential

Public Trust/Other Required: Other

Job Family: Software Engineering

Job Qualifications: Skills: AWS CloudFormation, DevOps, DevOps Tools, DevSecOps, Infrastructure As Code (IaC)

Certifications: None

Experience: 5 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required: No

Job Description: We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our team to support Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Agile Tools, Licensing and Shared Services (ATLAS) program. NOTE:

This position is contingent upon contract award, projected in January 2027.

As a DevOps Engineer supporting the ATLAS software-delivery ecosystem, you will be trusted to operate secure enterprise platforms and automate reliable build, test, deployment, and observability services. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team supporting CMS digital modernization and the delivery of secure, scalable healthcare services. You will install, configure, operate and maintain DevOps tools, CI/CD build agents and supporting server, container and cloud infrastructure under the direction of senior engineering staff. Perform tool upgrades, patching, backups, user and access provisioning, and license management. Monitor system health, utilization and logs, and respond to alerts and incidents, escalating complex issues as required. You will also develop scripts to automate routine tasks, maintain system documentation and runbooks, and support application teams onboarding to tools and pipelines. MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT: Collaborating with developers, senior engineers, security teams, and CMS stakeholders to improve platform reliability, developer experience, and software-delivery outcomes. Operating and optimizing CloudBees CI on AWS EKS, including Jenkins controllers, Kubernetes build agents, GitHub integrations, and pipelines supporting approximately 70,000 builds per month. Administering Grafana, Prometheus, SonarQube, JMaaS, and Structurizr while maintaining dashboards, alerts, quality gates, performance tests, access controls, and platform integrations. Automating infrastructure, configuration, testing, security scanning, and deployments; monitoring platform health and resolving build, deployment, telemetry, and environment issues. Applying CMS and NIST security requirements, supporting continuous ATO activities, and maintaining runbooks, architecture diagrams, pipeline documentation, and release and change records. WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED - REQUIRED: Clearance:

Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance. Education:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related field; additional relevant experience may be considered in place of a degree. Years of Experience:

5+ years of experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, CI/CD engineering, cloud operations, platform engineering, or systems administration. Technical Skills: Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines using CloudBees CI, Jenkins, or a comparable enterprise platform. Experience with AWS, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes or EKS, GitHub integrations, and dynamically provisioned build agents. Experience with infrastructure as code and automation using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Packer, Python, Bash, or comparable technologies. Experience integrating automated testing, code-quality controls, vulnerability scanning, and container security into CI/CD pipelines. Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response, patching, secure configurations, and vulnerability remediation. Understanding of CMS or federal security requirements, NIST guidance, FISMA controls, and ATO processes. Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills across pipelines, applications, containers, observability platforms, and cloud infrastructure. Schedule:

CMS business hours (9:00 AM–5:00 PM ET) for non-production support; on-call rotation for 24×7 production support Location:

Remote (CONUS), with the ability to travel to CMS Headquarters in Bethesda, MD several times a year. Travel:

Up to 10% DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Relevant AWS, CloudBees, Kubernetes, Grafana, SonarQube, DevOps, or security certification. Experience administering CloudBees Jenkins Operations Center, managed controllers, and Kubernetes-based build agents at enterprise scale. Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, SonarQube, JMeter/JMaaS, Structurizr, Artifactory, Xray, or test-management platforms. Experience creating dashboards, Prometheus scrape targets, alerting rules, SonarQube Quality Gates, and performance-test inte