DevOps Engineer

Career Team is a leading workforce development organization on a mission to transform lives.  We blend cutting-edge technology with compassionate, high-touch services to drive real, measurable outcomes in the lives of job seekers across the country.  At Career Team, we’re solving today’s unemployment challenges with smart software, world-class trainers, dedicated case managers, dynamic job developers, and innovative partners. If you're passionate about making a difference and believe in the power of technology to transform lives, you’ll feel right at home here.

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

At Career Team, we believe technology should create opportunity. 

Through our Career EDGE platform, we build enterprise software that helps government agencies and workforce organizations connect people with employment, training, and life-changing resources across the United States. Every improvement we make helps workforce professionals better serve the communities that depend on them. 

We're looking for a DevOps Engineer who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges, automating everything possible, and building secure, scalable cloud platforms. You'll play a key role in designing and operating the systems that power Career EDGE while working with modern cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD pipelines. 

If you're passionate about reliability, automation, security, and continuous improvement—and want your work to have a meaningful impact beyond the technology itself—we'd love to hear from you. 

What You'll Do 

As a DevOps Engineer, you'll help build and operate the cloud platform that powers Career EDGE. You'll work closely 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 GovCloud 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. 

Technologies You'll Work With 

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

• Amazon Web Services (AWS & AWS GovCloud) 
• Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) 
• Docker 
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code 
• GitHub Actions 
• Node.js / TypeScript 
• MongoDB Atlas 
• Amazon S3, IAM, Lambda, Secrets Manager, Route 53, CloudFront, and related AWS services 
• Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, OpenSearch, and modern observability tooling
• Linux and Bash scripting 

What We're Looking For 

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 GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar tools. 
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar technologies. 
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills. 
• Experience writing automation scripts using Bash, Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
• 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 production workloads in AWS GovCloud or other regulated cloud environments. 
• Experience supporting applications that process sensitive or regulated data.
• Familiarity with security and compliance frameworks such as NIST, FedRAMP, GovRAMP, SOC 2, or CJIS. 
• Experience with GitOps workflows and tools such as Argo CD or Flux.
• Experience supporting Node.js services and MongoDB in production.
• Experience optimizing cloud infrastructure for cost, scalability, and reliability.
• Experience working within Agile software development teams. 

About Career Team:
Founded in 1996, Career Team, LLC is a private workforce development organization.

Career Team’s outstanding record of accelerating the human condition has resulted in numerous honors:

• Named by Inc. Magazine as one of America's 500 fastest growing privately held companies
• Recipient of the US Chamber of Commerce Blue Chip Enterprise Award for innovation
• Featured by 60 Minutes, CNN, Money Magazine, Inc. Magazine and the British Broadcasting Network as an innovative, government funded solutions program
• Invited to the White House after being cited by the National Welfare-to-Work Partnership and National Alliance of Business as a top 10 US training provider

As a socially conscious organization, Career Team has found a healthy balance between for-profit innovation and community enrichment. Looking ahead, the organization will continue to close the nation’s opportunity divide with additional government-funded workforce sites; while also building staff capacity of workforce funding sources and industry providers. See www.careerteam.com for more information.

Career Team is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

Background Check Requirements. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check (including criminal, prior employment and education verification). Failure to satisfactorily complete the background check may affect the application status of applicants or continued employment of current employees who apply for the position.

California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA").  Career Team is committed to complying with the CCPA and all data privacy and laws in the jurisdictions in which it recruits and hires employees. Career Team collects and uses Personal Information for human resources, employment, benefits administration, health and safety, and business-related purposes and to be in legal compliance. Below are the categories of Personal Information we collect and the purposes for which we intend to use this information:

Identifying information, such as your full name, gender, date of birth, and signature; Demographic data, such as race, ethnic origin, marital status, disability, and veteran or military status; Contact information, such as your home address, telephone numbers, email addresses, and emergency contact information; Dependent's or other individual's information, such as their full name, address, date of birth, and Social Security numbers (SSN); National identifiers, such as SSN, passport and visa information, and immigration status and documentation; Educational and professional background, such as your work history, academic and professional qualifications, educational records, references, and interview notes; Employment details, such as your job title, position, hire dates, compensation, performance and disciplinary records, and vacation and sick leave records; Financial information, such as banking details, tax information, payroll information, and withholdings; Health and Safety information, such as health conditions (if relevant to your employment), job restrictions, workplace illness and injury information, and health insurance policy information; Information Systems (IS) information, such as your search history, browsing history, login information, and IP addresses on the Company's information systems and networks; Biometric information, such as facial recognition, fingerprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, or other physical patterns; and Geolocation data, such as time and physical location related to use of an internet website, application, device, or physical access to a Company office location.

The Company collects Personal Information to use or disclose as appropriate to:

(1) Comply with all applicable laws and regulations; (2) Recruit and evaluate job applicants and candidates for employment; (3) Conduct background checks; (4) Manage your employment relationship with us, including for: (a) onboarding processes; (b) timekeeping, payroll, and expense report administration; (c) employee benefits administration; (d) employee training and development requirements; (d) the creation, maintenance, and security of your online employee accounts; (e) reaching your emergency contacts when needed, such as when you are not reachable or are injured or ill; (f) workers' compensation claims management; (g) employee job performance, including goals and performance reviews, promotions, discipline, and termination; and (h) other human resources purposes; (5) Manage and monitor employee access to company facilities, equipment, and systems; (6) Conduct internal audits and workplace investigations; (7) Investigate and enforce compliance with and potential breaches of Company policies and procedures; (8) Engage in corporate transactions requiring review of employee records, such as for evaluating potential mergers and acquisitions of the Company; (9) Maintain commercial insurance policies and coverages, including for workers' compensation and other liability insurance; (10) Perform workforce analytics, data analytics, and benchmarking; (11) Administer and maintain the Company's operations, including for safety purposes; (12) For client marketing purposes; (13) Exercise or defend the legal rights of the Company and its employees, and affiliates, customers, contractors, and agents; and (14) to comply with requirements of government grants, including, but not limited to, program and audit requirements.