Evergreen: Staff DevOps and Systems Integration Engineer

Primary Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the scalable, secure Cloud platform and its services.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning via IaC and integrate pipelines. Ensure platform stability, high availability, and optimal cost management.
• Writing and maintaining Terraform modules to manage cloud landing zones.
• Developing reusable CI/CD pipeline templates for microservices and API services. Configuring and monitoring platform observability.
• Capable of self-directed cloud infrastructure design and pipeline design, including cloud-specific product offerings, and tradeoffs between cost, reliability, and efficiency.
• Buils libraries, modules, and packages for other infrastructure engineers to integrate with their projects.
• Builds cloud infrastructure that supports applications and Improves the broader developer experience for engineers.
• Develops CI/CD processes to help deliver software of higher quality at greater speed.
• Integrates tools to satisfy non-functional requirements such as quality thresholds, security vulnerabilities, and static analysis.
• Buils specific application test and deployment pipelines using automated tooling such as Jenkins, Github Actions, Circle CI, Gitlab CI.
• Strong influential skills to collaborate across teams to consolidate and simplify DevSecOps tools and services.
• Deliver secure, modern application features and API components that integrate with core IRS systems.
• Foster adoption of new platform tools and services by providing comprehensive documentation, training, and support.
• Maintains a high-level understanding of adjacent technical areas and ecosystems to effectively coordinate integration with those systems.
• Strong influential skills to improve technical decision-making of clients through relationship-building.
• Presents on technical topics effectively, articulating implementation complexity and other costs to inform business decisions.
• Emerging people leader/mentor that exhibits high levels of trust, autonomy, and empowerment.
• Guides the development and operation of the full lifecycle of the solution infrastructure.
• Provides expertise in DevOps use of cloud-based services, defined using IaaC tooling.
• Ensures processes and design provide robust defense-in-depth through security best-practices.
• Ensures that systems operate smoothly and align with CMS/NIST quality and compliance standards so clients retain ATO.
• Plans and executes migrations to cloud-native data services.
• Actively participates in conversations and planning sessions with partners and key stakeholders.
• Periodically travels to work with and present to clients, partners, and stakeholders.
• Elaborates on and evolves complex and ambiguous products to uncover constraints and new opportunities.
• Effectively communicates on existing systems, design decisions, past performance, and a major history of the projects that theyve been part of for bid-writing, tech demos, and other potentially client-facing communications.
• Participates in technical depth interviews with new candidates.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's and 9+ years of experience
• Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education
• Demonstrates expert-level knowledge in at least one infrastructure-as-code tool (e.g. terraform, ansible)
• Expertise in key DevSecOps concepts: installing software, virtualization, containerization, networking, etc.
• Demonstrates expert-level knowledge in at least one technical area (including but not limited to frontend, backend, or infrastructure engineering)

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in cloud-native architecture, container orchestration (Kubernetes, AKS/EKS/GKE), hybrid connectivity, and disaster recovery configuration. Strong analytical skills for performance optimization and FinOps reporting.
• Languages & Software Potentially Needed: Terraform (expert), HashiCorp Vault (expert), AWS/Azure (certification required), Git/GitHub (for version control), Jenkins/GitLab CI/CD, Python (for scripting).
• Full-stack application development experience (back-end focus strongly preferred).
• Proficiency in API-first development, systems integration, and complex troubleshooting.
• Excellent technical writing and communication skills (DevRel/DevEx).
• Go/Java/Node.js (API development), Python/Ruby (scripting), PostgreSQL/NoSQL databases, experience with API Gateways (e.g., Kong, Apigee), Jira/Confluence (expert-level scripting/configuration for JIRA migration and maintenance).

Benefits

• Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible PTO
• 401K with employer match
• Paid parental leave after one year of service
• Employee Assistance Program