Senior Backend DevOps Engineer (Remote Opportunity)

VetsEZ is seeking a Senior Backend DevOps Engineer for a 100% remote position supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs' Joint Longitudinal Viewer (JLV) program. JLV is a mission-critical clinical application that aggregates real-time patient data from VA and DoD systems, enabling clinicians to access a unified longitudinal view of patient health information. The ideal candidate must reside within the continental US.

About the role

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience operating containerized microservices in AWS ECS, designing enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines, implementing observability and SRE practices, and supporting secure, compliant, highly available cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Operate and optimize Amazon ECS deployments for JLV backend microservices.
• Configure and manage service scaling, task definitions, health checks, and blue/green deployment strategies.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions aligned with VA Enterprise Cloud (VAEC) architecture standards.
• Support multi-region high availability and disaster recovery environments within AWS GovCloud.
• Design, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines for containerized microservices.
• Automate build, test, security scanning, deployment, verification, and rollback processes.
• Create repeatable deployment procedures and release workflows supporting VA governance requirements.
• Automate system configuration, database updates, performance tuning, and post-deployment validation.
• Build and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and notification systems for JLV backend services.
• Execute backup, restore, outage recovery, and incident response procedures.
• Develop operational runbooks and support production readiness activities.
• Establish performance baselines and support load testing and release validation.
• Implement security controls supporting FedRAMP High, NIST 800-53, FISMA, and VA compliance frameworks.
• Integrate security practices into CI/CD pipelines and operational workflows.
• Support continuous monitoring, audit activities, and remediation efforts.
• Implement IAM solutions following government cloud best practices.
• Partner with backend engineers, product teams, security teams, and operations personnel.
• Support production issue triage and service reliability improvements.
• Guide releases through VA governance and approval processes.
• Maintain architecture documentation, deployment guides, and operational procedures.
• Take on additional tasks and responsibilities as needed to support team objectives and ensure the success of the project.

Requirements

• Experience operating containerized microservices on AWS ECS.
• Strong understanding of container orchestration, service scaling, load balancing, and health monitoring.
• Proficiency with AWS CLI and production cloud operations.
• Experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines for enterprise environments.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code practices and automation frameworks.
• Working knowledge of FedRAMP High, NIST 800-53, FISMA, and government cloud compliance requirements.
• Experience implementing observability solutions, incident response processes, and SRE practices.
• Strong understanding of AWS networking, IAM, security groups, and multi-region disaster recovery architectures.
• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance or higher.

Qualifications

• Experience working in AWS GovCloud environments.
• Familiarity with VA Enterprise Cloud architecture and deployment patterns.
• Experience supporting healthcare applications or clinical viewer platforms.
• Familiarity with deployment governance, operational readiness reviews, and production operations management.
• Experience integrating with VA or DoD healthcare systems and services.
• Knowledge of VIP lifecycle processes and associated release documentation.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision.
• 401k with Employer Match.
• PTO + Federal Holidays.
• Corporate Laptop.
• Training Opportunities.
• Remote Opportunity.