Top Remote IT Jobs in Portland, OR

Administer, optimize, secure, and automate cloud SQL, NoSQL, and graph database environments. Responsibilities include performance tuning, backups, disaster recovery, replication, migrations, access controls, monitoring, cost optimization, compliance, documentation, and incident troubleshooting. The role integrates databases with data platforms, pipelines, applications, and analytics tools while collaborating with engineering, architecture, security, and application teams. Candidates support AWS and Snowflake environments, modernization initiatives, audits, and Public Trust requirements.

Analyzes current and future-state business processes, workflows, and data interactions for a federal modernization program. Translates data governance policies into operational procedures, controls, business rules, process models, and documentation. Facilitates stakeholder workshops, partners with data governance, security, quality, and engineering teams, supports compliant data sharing and process automation, and drives change management and continuous improvement.

Provides senior technical leadership for IT support and operations in a remote healthcare technology environment. Owns complex escalations, incident resolution, root cause analysis, endpoint and identity administration, onboarding and offboarding, vendor escalations, documentation, automation, and reliability improvements. Coaches support staff, develops scalable processes, partners with Security, Compliance, Engineering, Product, and clinical teams, and communicates clearly during high-impact incidents affecting clinical workflows.

Plans and delivers complex software implementation projects, managing scope, schedules, budgets, resources, vendors, risks, quality, and stakeholder communications. Leads cross-functional project teams, reports to executive leadership, improves project management processes using AI, and mentors junior project managers. The role requires strong communication, leadership, problem-solving, adaptability, attention to detail, and knowledge of Agile and hybrid methodologies.

Coordinate the CMM Data Modernization and Governance Program across workstreams, technical teams, stakeholders, and government organizations. Maintain schedules, sprint boards, deliverable trackers, risks, dependencies, documentation, training records, and compliance activities. Support status reporting, meetings, technical reviews, audits, budget tracking, resource updates, change requests, executive communications, and customer training while ensuring deliverables meet contractual and quality requirements.

Manage and secure cloud and server infrastructure, including Windows Server, Azure, AWS, Azure Virtual Desktop, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and Office 365. Responsibilities include monitoring, troubleshooting, patching, automation, security and compliance, backup and disaster recovery, infrastructure migrations, ITIL service management, documentation, and user support. The administrator will participate in 24/7 on-call rotations and collaborate on infrastructure optimization and project initiatives.

Leads a high-performing engineering team responsible for core services and systems. Focuses on people management, coaching, hiring, team development, strategic execution, technical direction, architectural feedback, operational excellence, and cross-functional collaboration. The role manages employees and contractors, sets priorities and metrics, addresses technical risks, navigates ambiguity and organizational change, and promotes inclusive, high-performing engineering practices. This is a remote position requiring U.S. citizenship, Public Trust 6C eligibility, and approximately 10–20% business travel.

Develop and maintain cloud-native applications using Node.js, React.js, and AWS. Design scalable architectures, implement infrastructure as code with Terraform or AWS CDK, build CI/CD pipelines, troubleshoot Linux environments, and support secure cloud operations. Collaborate with UI/UX designers, cloud engineers, architects, and DevOps teams while working in an Agile environment. The role requires obtaining Public Trust, passing a background check, and completing onsite fingerprinting.

Leads human-centered UI/UX design and information architecture for complex enterprise applications. Conducts user research, usability testing, accessibility reviews, journey mapping, prototyping, and requirements analysis. Establishes design and IA standards, creates interface specifications, and collaborates with product, development, and stakeholder teams. Designs dynamic forms and advanced UI components using ReactJS, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and Tailwind within a microservices environment.

Design, execute, and analyze performance, load, stress, and endurance tests for cloud-based enterprise applications. Build AWS test environments, create test scripts (JMeter/LoadRunner/NeoLoad/K6), integrate tests into CI/CD, analyze results, identify bottlenecks, validate scalability and resilience, and produce performance reports to ensure releases meet federal performance standards.

Oversee multiple enterprise IT programs and projects for the CIDO organization. Responsibilities include managing schedules, budgets, risks, dependencies, staffing, requirements, testing, training, deployment, and change management. The role coordinates business and IT teams, facilitates stakeholder workshops, prepares executive dashboards, supports acquisition and delivery of IT solutions, and aligns digital strategies across corporate, sector, and functional leadership.

Lead backend and full-stack engineering strategy, design and deliver scalable, secure distributed systems and microservices for government customers. Drive architecture, data design, observability, CI/CD, cloud-native patterns, mentoring, and large modernization initiatives while collaborating with product and stakeholders.

Lead frontend engineering strategy, design and deliver accessible, performant government-facing web applications. Define frontend architecture, tooling, CI/CD, design systems, testing and accessibility practices; mentor engineers and collaborate with product to balance UX and implementation.

Perform cloud cost analysis and optimization for CMS cloud products: collect and review billing data, produce financial reports and dashboards, train customers on cloud cost patterns and tools, manage master payer accounts, recommend savings (e.g., savings plans/reserved instances), and support FinOps adoption.

Provides information security support for federal healthcare systems, including security architecture reviews, firewall and infrastructure initiatives, security impact assessments, mitigating controls, system security plans, SOPs, and POA&M remediation. Advises development teams and customer security organizations on federal security requirements, emerging practices such as Zero Trust and SBOM, network monitoring, authentication, and data security. The role is remote and requires passing an IHS background check for Public Trust eligibility.

Deploys, hardens, troubleshoots, and modernizes Windows and .NET applications across on-premises environments and AWS. Responsibilities include Terraform infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, SQL Server and Amazon RDS administration, load balancing, WAF configuration, observability, certificate management, automation, migrations, incident response, documentation, and collaboration with application owners. The role is remote but requires weekly onsite availability in Rockville, Maryland, and may involve occasional after-hours maintenance or outage troubleshooting.

Lead a remote analytics team to deliver dashboards, data products, and decision-support tools. Oversee project plans, stakeholder engagement, data platform modernization, ETL/automation, Tableau/Power BI deployments, statistical modeling, QA, metadata, and staff mentoring to support federal social service programs.

Design, develop, and maintain high-performance Scala/Java server-side applications and RESTful APIs. Work on distributed systems, ensure data integrity and security, write unit tests, optimize performance, participate in design reviews, and mentor junior engineers while supporting CMS mission requirements.

Design, develop, and modernize full-stack web applications using Java and Angular in a cloud microservices architecture. Build and deploy Dockerized services on AWS (ECS/ECR), implement REST APIs, write unit and automated tests, enforce code quality in GitLab pipelines, collaborate in Agile teams, and mentor teammates. Participate in sprint ceremonies, manage user stories, perform testing (functional, exploratory, performance), and resolve defects to deliver reliable production software.

Architect and modernize large, multi-tenant cloud applications on AWS. Design, deploy, and secure cloud solutions; build automation, IaC, CI/CD pipelines; develop serverless and containerized microservices using Node.js, React.js, Python and Bash; collaborate with cross-functional teams and produce operational documentation.

Designs, deploys, and maintains enterprise cloud and on-premises network security (NGFW, SASE/SSE, visibility, micro-segmentation). Executes migrations, policy cleanup, automation, monitoring, documentation, and escalations. Collaborates across teams, coaches junior staff, and supports hardware/software acquisitions to sustain managed security services.

Establishes and maintains enterprise data governance frameworks, standards, ownership models, privacy controls, metadata, quality monitoring, and stewardship practices. Partners with legal, security, privacy, records management, engineering, and business stakeholders to ensure compliant data use. The role identifies governance risks, supports audits and remediation, develops documentation and training, monitors program metrics, and contributes to governance roadmaps and maturity improvements for a federal courts modernization program.

Establishes and operationalizes data quality practices across enterprise data domains and systems. Defines quality rules, controls, metrics, thresholds, and validation criteria; profiles data; develops scorecards and dashboards; investigates root causes; manages remediation; and implements automated monitoring. Partners with data owners, stewards, engineers, governance, security, and application teams to improve data reliability, privacy, compliance, standards, metadata, glossary, lineage, and data sharing across modernization initiatives.

Designs scalable, secure technology solutions connecting business objectives with application, integration, data, cloud, and enterprise systems. Responsibilities include developing architectures and roadmaps, modernizing processes through automation, governing APIs and data flows, incorporating security and compliance, guiding engineering teams, evaluating vendors, and facilitating stakeholder discovery workshops.

Own and automate IT workflows and SaaS integrations (identity, collaboration, core business apps). Configure SSO and identity protocols, maintain DNS and email security, troubleshoot endpoints and apps, support SOC 2/SOX compliance, document standards, and partner cross-functionally to scale reliable, secure IT systems.