DevOps Engineer Lead (51559)

ABOUT INDEX ANALYTICS

Index Analytics LLC delivers mission-critical health data technology and consulting solutions for the federal government. We foster a collaborative employee-focused culture that supports professional growth continuous learning flexibility and meaningful work that improves public outcomes.

POSITION OVERVIEW

Index Analytics is seeking a DevOps Engineer to design automate secure and maintain AWS cloud environments for federal clients. This role provides platform and delivery support throughout the software development lifecycle and partners with application data security and product teams to improve deployment reliability observability and operational efficiency.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Design build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions GitLab CI Jenkins AWS CodePipeline or comparable platforms.

Develop and manage reusable infrastructure-as-code using Terraform CloudFormation or equivalent tools.

Automate build test security scanning deployment configuration and environment-provisioning processes.

Operate and maintain AWS infrastructure including monitoring patching backup recovery capacity and cost controls.

Implement logging monitoring alerting and observability using CloudWatch Splunk New Relic or comparable tools.

Integrate code quality software composition vulnerability and container scanning into delivery pipelines.

Support containerized workloads and orchestration platforms where applicable.

Partner with security teams on architecture reviews control implementation assessments penetration testing and remediation.

Troubleshoot deployment and production issues conduct root-cause analysis and maintain operational runbooks.

Advise Agile teams on automation tooling DevSecOps standards and continuous improvement.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelors degree in information technology computer science or a related discipline and at least five (5) years of relevant IT experience.

At least two (2) years of hands-on AWS or comparable cloud-platform experience.

Hands-on experience with CI/CD Git-based workflows and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or CloudFormation.

Experience with Linux scripting and at least one language such as Python JavaScript or Go.

Working knowledge of cloud architecture monitoring logging security scanning and incident troubleshooting.

Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience working in Agile delivery teams.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

AWS certification; experience with Docker Kubernetes MLOps FinOps or the AWS Well-Architected Framework.