Junior DevOps Engineer

Role Overview

Junior DevOps Engineer at eSimplicity supporting federal agency teams with CI/CD, DevSecOps automation, release management, monitoring/observability, and zero-trust security practices.

Essential Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for software delivery.
• Manage multiple environments (development, testing, UAT, staging, production) and ensure metadata deployments are synchronized and consistent.
• Configure quality gates in CI/CD, including:
  • code reviews
  • test execution
  • code quality checks
  • code security scans
• Apply an automation-first approach using custom scripts and robotic process automation (RPA) to reduce manual configuration.
• Coordinate releases with development, QA, and business teams.
• Implement strategies for quick data/metadata restoration after deployment failures; lead backup and restore activities and maintain restoration runbooks.
• Drive continuous improvements to the CI/CD pipeline and team development workflows.
• Set up monitoring and alerting for deployments; troubleshoot issues.
• Document DevOps promotion/back-promotion practices and environment details.
• Provide technical support, troubleshooting, and training to development teams on CI/CD best practices.
• Implement observability to improve insight into performance, reliability, and utilization.
• Configure alerts for system issues and collaborate on incident response.
• Configure security tools and permission sets to enforce zero-trust and least-privilege access controls.

Requirements

• Public Trust clearance through the U.S. Federal Government (U.S. citizenship or ability to pass clearance via the Foreign National Government System, including residency and passport/VISA documentation requirements).
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field, or equivalent experience (4 years general IT + at least 2 years specialized experience).
• 2+ years DevSecOps experience including:
  • cloud architecture
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • release management
  • security tools
  • managing multiple applications/environments (dev/test/UAT/staging/production)
  • monitoring/observability, log aggregation, and security tools
• Experience with Data Deploy / Data Loader and platform capabilities (governor limits).
• Familiarity with Salesforce technologies: Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Web Components (LWC), APIs, and declarative development tools.
• Knowledge of automated testing frameworks and best practices.
• Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools including Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, plus configuration management tools like Ansible.
• AWS Cloud experience is a plus.

Nice-to-haves

• DevSecOps Fundamentals I and II certifications

Work Environment / Location

• Remote work aligned to the Eastern time zone.