Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer

About this role

## About Skylight

Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help government agencies deliver better public services.

We’re at the forefront of a civic movement to reinvent how all levels of government serve families, patients, and many others in today's digital world.

If you want to play a part in driving this critical movement forward, we’d love for you to join our growing team of public interest technologists.

The work we do matters.

## About the job

At Skylight, DevOps engineers work with developers throughout the software development life cycle to ensure code can be reliably and repeatedly released on demand with a high degree of quality. They understand both software development and operations, with expertise in areas such as networking, security, test automation, and continuous integration/deployment.

## What you’ll do

• Engineer a great experience for developers working in web-based environments through automation, virtualization, and process improvement
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that let the team reliably and repeatedly release to production on demand
• Manage cloud infrastructure and create and maintain infrastructure as code, standardizing deployment processes
• Protect sensitive data by applying security and privacy best practices, conducting audits and risk analyses, and planning and implementing remediations that meet federal security standards
• Achieve technical excellence by advocating for and adhering to lean-agile engineering practices such as simple design and automated testing
• Build up the organization’s engineering capacity through coaching, knowledge sharing, and other enablement practices

## What we're looking for

### Minimum qualifications

• Understand the general concepts of modern software development and can work closely with software engineers
• Able to work in a cloud-centric world, including managing disparate, interconnected systems and ensuring their availability, reliability, and resilie...