DevOps Engineer
Job Summary
Own the paved road from pull request to production for a High Value Asset that cannot go down during a statutory Medicare collection window.
This position is contingent upon contract award.
The CMS Fee-for-Service Data Collection System (FFSDCS) is the mission system through which the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services collects statutorily mandated data from drug manufacturers clinical laboratories ground ambulance organizations and hospitals. You will engineer and operate the CI/CD pipeline Kubernetes platform and cloud infrastructure underneath it.
The distinguishing constraint here is the calendar. Collection windows are set by statute and cannot slip so release discipline change freezes and capacity planning are keyed to a reporting calendar rather than to a teams convenience.
- Four statutory collections: Average Sales Price Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule Ground Ambulance and Off-Campus Hospital Outpatient acquisition data
- Approximately 17800 registered reporting users
- High Value Asset FISMA Moderate application in the CMS Cloud (AWS GovCloud)
- Java/Spring Boot microservices ReactJS Amazon Aurora Kubernetes
- Multiple production releases per month on a two-week sprint cadence
- CMS-furnished tooling: GitHub JIRA Confluence Splunk New Relic Snyk SonarQube
- 24/7 on-call rotation with one-hour incident-reporting readiness
Hybrid role. Baltimore Maryland area strongly preferred for proximity to the CMS Woodlawn campus. Eastern Time core hours in support of a Monday to Friday 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM ET service window. All work is performed within the United States.
- Build and maintain the DevSecOps pipeline in government-furnished GitHub: automated build test SAST/SCA scanning with Snyk and SonarQube accessibility checks artifact signing and SBOM and deployment automation
- Operate and tune the Kubernetes platform and Amazon Aurora databases in AWS GovCloud including autoscaling profiles keyed to the collection calendar and capacity planning for concurrent-window load
- Implement observability with New Relic and Splunk: dashboards SLO-based alerting and anomaly detection; participate in the 24/7 on-call rotation for production and security response
- Execute environment management across dev test impl and prod; enforce per-module change freezes; own release runbooks and rollback procedures
- Drive cloud cost optimization through right-sizing Compute Optimizer and storage lifecycle policies
- Maintain infrastructure-as-code coverage across the platform
This position is contingent upon contract award. Candidates selected will receive a contingent offer and will begin the federal suitability and credentialing process which can take several weeks to several months. Employment begins only upon award and successful adjudication.
- U.S. work authorization and residence in the United States for at least three of the last five years a CMS background-investigation eligibility requirement
- Ability to obtain and maintain a CMS Public Trust suitability determination (e-QIP application fingerprinting favorable adjudication) prior to system access
- All work performed within the United States
- Completion of HHS/CMS security privacy and records-management training before performance and annually thereafter; signed non-disclosure agreement
- 6 years of DevOps or platform engineering experience including 3 years running Kubernetes in production and strong AWS experience (GovCloud preferred)
- Hands-on CI/CD ownership with GitHub Actions or equivalent infrastructure-as-code with Terraform or CloudFormation and container security practices
- Production operations experience with observability stacks such as Splunk New Relic or CloudWatch and participation in on-call and incident response
Bachelors degree and 6 years of relevant experience.
- CMS Cloud batCAVE or FedRAMP-boundary experience
- FISMA Moderate control implementation
- Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL operations
- Java/Spring Boot build ecosystems
Standard Employee Benefits.
50% Health Insurance Paid by Innosoft Paid Vacation 401K Match STD LTD and AD&D paid by Innosoft.
The salary range for this position is $140000 to $145000 annually. Actual compensation is determined by experience qualifications skills location and internal equity. This range reflects the anticipated base salary and does not include bonus benefits or other compensation.
Innosoft Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity national origin age physical or mental disability genetic information marital status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local law.
As a federal contractor Innosoft Corporation complies with its applicable equal employment opportunity and affirmative action obligations including Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA).
Reasonable accommodation. If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application or interview process please contact and we will work with you.
Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background investigation drug screening and reference checks in accordance with Innosoft Corporation policy.
Required Skills:
Bachelors degree and 6 years of DevOps/platform engineering experience including 3 years running Kubernetes in production and strong AWS experience (GovCloud preferred). Hands-on CI/CD ownership (GitHub Actions or equivalent) infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation) and container security practices. Production operations experience with observability stacks (Splunk New Relic CloudWatch) and participation in on-call/incident response.
Required Education:
This position requires a bachelors degree from an accredited college or university with a major in computer science information systems engineering business or a related scientific or technical discipline; or five (5) years of equivalent experience in a related field. (Note: A Masters degree is preferred.)