Role Description We're looking for a DevOps Engineer who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges, automating everything possible, and building secure, scalable cloud platforms. You'll play a key role in designing and operating the systems that power Career EDGE while working with modern cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD pipelines. This role is remote but with preference to candidates located near our Denver, Colorado headquarters. Your responsibilities will include: - Design, provision, and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS using Infrastructure as Code. - Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable safe, reliable, and frequent software deployments. - Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot containerized applications running on Kubernetes. - Automate operational workflows and eliminate repetitive manual processes through scripting and infrastructure automation. - Improve platform observability through logging, monitoring, metrics, alerting, and dashboards. - Optimize systems for performance, scalability, availability, security, and cost efficiency. - Partner with engineering teams to improve developer experience and deployment reliability. - Participate in production incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous operational improvements. - Implement security best practices across cloud infrastructure, identity management, networking, secrets management, and application delivery. - Support compliance initiatives for government-hosted environments, including AWS GovCloud deployments and security frameworks applicable to public sector software. - Help evolve our platform architecture while continuously improving automation, resilience, and operational excellence. - Participate as a collaborative member of an Agile Scrum team, contributing to planning, design discussions, and continuous improvement. Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. - Experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure, preferably on AWS. - Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments. - Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar tools. - Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar technologies. - Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills. - Experience writing automation scripts using Bash, Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript. - Understanding of networking fundamentals, cloud security, IAM, DNS, TLS, and secrets management. - Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability solutions. - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems. - Excellent collaboration and communication skills. Requirements - Experience operating production workloads in AWS GovCloud or other regulated cloud environments. - Experience supporting applications that process sensitive or regulated data. - Familiarity with security and compliance frameworks such as NIST, FedRAMP, GovRAMP, SOC 2, or CJIS. - Experience with GitOps workflows and tools such as Argo CD or Flux. - Experience supporting Node.js services and MongoDB in production. - Experience optimizing cloud infrastructure for cost, scalability, and reliability. - Experience working within Agile software development teams. Company Description Founded in 1996, Career Team, LLC is a private workforce development organization. - Named by Inc. Magazine as one of America's 500 fastest growing privately held companies. - Recipient of the US Chamber of Commerce Blue Chip Enterprise Award for innovation. - Featured by 60 Minutes, CNN, Money Magazine, Inc. Magazine and the British Broadcasting Network as an innovative, government funded solutions program. - Invited to the White House after being cited by the National Welfare-to-Work Partnership and National Alliance of Business as a top 10 US training provider. As a socially conscious organization, Career Team has found a healthy balance between for-profit innovation and community enrichment. Looking ahead, the organization will continue to close the nation’s opportunity divide with additional government-funded workforce sites; while also building staff capacity of workforce funding sources and industry providers.