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Job Title: DevOps Engineer
Location: Boston, MA
Contract Duration: Through June 30, 2019 with potential to extend long germ
 
We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join the Data Office with the Digital Services team. This is currently working on a new resident/business data repository for public records compliance, and various data science projects for internal government customers.
 
Data Team DevOps Engineer Responsibilities:

• Help with production issues and deployments and analytics/data science products
• Move the team closer to continuous deployment, improving tooling (i.e. automation) and use of infrastructure (i.e. try-test-iterate faster)
• Setup deployment infrastructure for Mayflower, our style guide and visual component library
• Setup deployment infrastructure for analytics and data science products, that AWS Lambda and Docker based (Goal: Reduced time to go from engagement to receiving data)
• Create and implement a strategy to monitor Digital Services supported applications and accurately notify engineers of problems
• Construct and maintain a Threat Model for Digital Services supported applications, and implement solutions for gaps in our security based on it
• Develop a reusable infrastructure playbook and tooling for rapidly deploying Data Team packages to internal customers
• Quickly standup standard environment and/or distribute or handoff work deliverables
• Mentor the team on good DevOps practices
• Development and deployment of RESTful APIs, including documentation
• Setup and facilitate processes and environments for the creation of new services; this would include the creation of processes and deployments to dev, test and prod environments for the proof of concepts services developed throughout the agency. 

Data Team DevOps Engineer Preferred Skills & Experience- 

• 5-8 years of experience in the below categories
• Experience with AWS cloud platform specifically with the following services (or equivalent services within alternative cloud-based platforms)
  • AWS CLI
  • Cloud Formation
  • Cloud Front
  • S3 management
  • RDS
  • DynamoDB
  • SNS & SQS
  • EC2 management
  • Elastic beanstalk and other auto-scaling services
  • Lambda Function (python & node)
  • API Gateway
  • AWS Route 53 and AWS Cert Manager
• Linux terminal
• Experience with an IaaS (preferably: Amazon Web Services)
• Virtual machines
• Monitor production web applications
• People and technical process improvement/re-engineering
• Communicating effectively
• Continuous integration/deployment
• Conducting technical and behavioral interviews
• Infrastructure security practices
• Documenting in plain language
• RESTful APIs
• Infrastructure automation tools
• Amazon Web Services
• "Serverless” architecture such as AWS Lambda
• Microservices architecture
• Bonus points for experience with:
  • Acquia Cloud
  • PHP
  • Drupal
  • Agile/iterative development
  • User Experience (UX) practice
  • Python
  • Ansible
  • Docker
  • Other Coding Experience.