DevOps Engineer (CI/CD)

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. 

The Team

Our Health Modernization Solutions (HMS) team works side by side with customers to articulate a vision for success, and then make it happen. We know success doesn't happen by accident. It takes the right team of people, working together on the right solutions for the customer. We are looking for a seasoned DevOps Engineer who will be a key driver to make this happen.

The Work

Our team will assist HHS and GSA’s Centers of Excellence (CoE) in building a modern IT enterprise architecture with effective data governance and DevSecOps. We will assess the current network, infrastructure, applications, and data, identify strengths, weaknesses, and improvement opportunities, and envision an optimal future IT environment while understanding customer needs.

Key Responsibilities and Job Duties

• Configuring quality gates including code reviews, test execution, code quality checks, and code security scans within the CI/CD pipeline 
• Promoting and applying an automation-first approach to reduce manual configurations by writing custom scripts, configuring robotic process automation, etc. 
• Managing releases in coordination with development, QA, and business teams 
• Implement strategies for quick data and metadata restoration in case of deployment failures or other issues 
• Leading backup and restore strategies, including scheduling data backups and maintaining restoration runbooks 
• Leading continuous improvements and enhancements to the CI/CD pipeline and team development workflows to evolve best practices 
• Setting up monitoring and alerting on deployments to detect and address issues 
• Documenting DevOps code promotion, back promotion, best practices, and environments 
• Providing technical support, troubleshooting, and training to the development team on continuous integration and continuous deployment best practices 
• Implementing observability tools to gain insights into system performance, reliability, and utilization to proactively identify potential issues 
• Configuring alerts on systems issues and leading incident response in collaboration with development teams 
• Configuring security tools to enforce zero-trust security strategies and least-privilege access controls 
• Strong proven analytical ability and ability to solve problems independently 
• Stay abreast of new features and updates of technology 
• Other duties as assigned 

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in using CI/CD pipeline development tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, and Azure Pipeline
• Minimum 3 years’ experience DevSecOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment solutions, such as Jenkins 
• Candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust
• Candidate must reside in the U.S., be authorized to work in the U.S., and all work must be performed in the U.S.
• Candidate must have lived in the U.S. for three (3) full years out of the last five (5) years

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on a project using the Scaled Agile Framework.
• Experience on a software development team building modern software products.
• Flexible and willing to accept a change in priorities as necessary.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Job Location:

Remote with possible quarterly travel to D.C. This position requires that the job be performed in the United States. If you accept this position, note that ICF monitors employee work locations, blocks access from foreign locations/foreign IP addresses, and prohibits personal VPN connections.

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Working at ICF (standard language used on all ICF reqs – no need to touch this section)

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

Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position. The pay range for this position is: $ 000000 - $ 0000000.

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.

Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position.

The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is:

$92,986.00 - $158,076.00

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