Platform Automation Engineer

About Us

ESimplicity is a modern digital services company that partners with government agencies to improve the lives and protect the well‑being of all Americans, from veterans and service members to children, families, and seniors. Our engineers, designers, and strategists cut through complexity to create intuitive products and services that equip federal agencies with solutions to courageously transform today for a better tomorrow.

eSimplicity is seeking a skilled Platform Automation Engineer to support a federal financial regulatory agency's enterprise data engineering program. In this role, you will build and maintain the CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure‑as‑Code, and deployment automation that power a large‑scale, AWS‑based Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) supporting mission‑critical financial datasets used for regulatory examinations, enforcement, analytics, and policy making. You will enable frequent, secure, single‑command releases across a growing portfolio of automated production data pipelines while advancing Zero Trust security principles and modern Dev Sec Ops  practices.

Successful candidates will be eligible to hold a U.S. Federal Public Trust security clearance (Moderate Risk). This position is contingent upon contract award.

• Implement and administer CI/CD pipelines for all ETL and data platform deliverables using Cloud Formation templates, Git Hub‑based version control, and AWS Service Catalog, enabling successful builds and deployments to staging and production with a single command.
• Manage cloud‑based infrastructure and services using approved Infrastructure‑as‑Code methodologies, Immutable Architecture principles, and reproducible deployment processes across development, staging, and production environments.
• Embed quality and security gates into CI/CD decision points, including static code analysis, dependency analysis, and government‑provided container analysis tools; support remediation of medium‑ and high‑level static and dynamic vulnerabilities in alignment with OWASP ASVS 4.0, Level 2.
• Automate orchestration and scheduling of data retrieval and ingestion jobs using Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA), AWS Glue, Lambda, Event Bridge, Step Functions, SNS, and SQS.
• Support release management, including Change Requests to the Change Control Board, release documentation, deployment references, rollback procedures, and project closeout within contract timelines.
• Ensure smooth operation of systems and infrastructure through monitoring, alerting, logging, preventative maintenance, and real‑time remediation; keep production configurations consistent and controllable in support of ATO, FISMA, and NIST 800‑53 compliance.
• Optimize system performance and cloud resource utilization to reduce cloud costs and deliver efficiency gains across the technical stack.
• Support disaster recovery exercises and actual events, ensuring production data loads continue as expected; provide pre‑production deployment and data load support in lower environments.
• Provide on‑call and after‑hours support for production outages and emergencies as part of a team rotation, with full production support processes, documentation, and monitoring/alerting solutions.
• Leverage AI‑assisted development tools to accelerate automation, improve code quality, and reduce operational burden while adhering to security and performance standards.
• Work as part of an integrated agile team, participating in sprint planning, program increment planning, and backlog refinement; support team performance dashboards (velocity, burn‑down, code coverage, backlog traceability).

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline. OR;
• In lieu of a degree, four additional years of related experience is required.
• Minimum of 8 years of professional experience in Dev Ops, platform engineering, or a related role.
• Hands‑on experience administering and securing AWS cloud environments, including services such as Glue, Lambda, S3, EC2, EMR, MWAA/Airflow, SNS, SQS, Event Bridge, Step Functions, and Cloud Watch.
• Experience building CI/CD…