DevOps Engineer II – OHS TTA Hub

Description

Location: Remote
Schedule: Full-Time; must be available during core hours of 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Eastern
Citizenship: U.S. citizenship required
Clearance: Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance and obtain a PIV card
Travel: Occasional travel may be required
Position Status: Contingent upon contract award

Missing Link Security is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer II to support the Office of Head Start (OHS) Training and Technical Assistance Data Platform, known as the TTA Hub, in support of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF).

The DevOps Engineer II will manage the platform's hosting environment, delivery pipeline, and production operations to enable reliable application releases and ongoing production support. This role will be responsible for cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, deployment, recovery, and operational documentation while working closely with the broader engineering team.

This is a Key Personnel position and will be named in our proposal.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the cloud.gov hosting environment, including staging and production environments.
• Manage application deployments, infrastructure as code, configuration, and rollback processes.
• Operate and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated security and quality checks.
• Manage application logs, metrics, alerts, backups, and recovery procedures.
• Own production monitoring, operational runbooks, and release-verification processes.
• Participate as the primary engineer in the team's rotating urgent-issue escalation coverage.
• Lead incident diagnosis and restoration when production issues occur.
• Plan and support the initial production cutover.
• Maintain system administration, disaster-recovery, and operations documentation.
• Provide configuration and continuous-monitoring evidence needed to support the system's Authorization to Operate (ATO).

Requirements

• Five (5) or more years of experience operating cloud applications and automating infrastructure, including at least two (2) years maintaining CI/CD within Agile teams.
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• Experience with cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) environments; Cloud Foundry experience is preferred.
• Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with infrastructure as code.
• Experience implementing and maintaining application and infrastructure observability.
• Scripting experience supporting infrastructure and application operations.
• Experience with secrets management.
• Experience working within Agile delivery environments.
• Experience with production incident response, diagnosis, and service restoration.
• U.S. citizenship required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance and obtain a Personal Identity Verification (PIV) card.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud.gov.
• Experience supporting FedRAMP-hosted environments.
• Experience supporting or providing evidence related to FIPS-validated cryptography.
• Experience with OWASP scanning and automated application-security checks.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a hands-on DevOps engineer who understands that reliable software delivery depends on both strong automation and disciplined production operations. This individual is comfortable owning cloud environments and deployment pipelines while also responding directly when production issues arise.

We are looking for someone who is methodical, proactive, and focused on reliability; who can identify operational risks before they become problems; and who maintains clear documentation and repeatable processes. The successful candidate will work effectively with software engineers and other technical team members to support secure, stable, and efficient application delivery.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Missing Link Security is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.