DevOps Engineer

Overview

Career Team is a leading workforce development organization focused on transforming lives by combining technology with high-touch, compassionate services. We build enterprise software to connect government agencies and workforce organizations with employment, training, and resources across the United States. We continuously improve solutions to help workforce professionals better serve communities.

It’s not just about the tech; it’s about the people.

Through our Career EDGE platform, we power cloud-native solutions and collaborate with modern technologies, ensuring reliable, scalable systems for our users.

We are seeking a Dev Ops Engineer who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges, automating processes, and building secure cloud platforms. You will design and operate systems that power Career EDGE, working with Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD pipelines. If you’re passionate about reliability, automation, security, and continuous improvement, we’d love to hear from you.

As a Dev Ops Engineer
, you’ll help build and operate the cloud platform that powers Career EDGE. You’ll collaborate with software engineers, security professionals, and product teams to create reliable deployment pipelines, scalable infrastructure, and highly available production environments.

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 Gov Cloud 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.

Our platform is built using modern cloud-native technologies, including:

• Amazon Web Services (AWS & AWS Gov Cloud)
• Docker
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• Git Hub Actions
• Node.js / Type Script
• MongoDB Atlas
• Amazon S3, IAM, Lambda, Secrets Manager, Route 53, Cloud Front, and related AWS services
• Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Watch, Open Search, and modern observability tooling
• Linux and Bash scripting

Required 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 Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI, Jenkins, or similar tools.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Cloud Formation, or similar technologies.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating…