DirectClient: Texas Health and Human Services Commission(HHSC)/DSHS
Solicitation#5371ITC858
Title: AWS DevOps Engineer
Location: Winters C Building, 701 w 51st St, Austin, Texas 78751
Duration: Until 8/31/2021 with possible extension upto 8/31/2022
Last date for submission: August 12, 2021 (2.00 PM-CST)
Note: Remote work allowed during COVID-19 and 100% onsite after the pandemic
DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES:
The State Health Analytics and Reporting Platform (SHARP) project is intended to expand the capacity of current DSHS analytical infrastructure. An integrated approach to data services will aid in providing the most current data to inform decision makers about the health and readiness statuses of jurisdictions across the state.
SHARP aims to create a data analytics platform plus data governance with Informatica Axon. The SHARP platform will facilitate the sharing, reporting, and analytics of the data collected from various ingested datasets.
HHSC IT is currently implementing an Analytics Platform with Informatica PowerCenter, Snowflake and AWS technologies as well as Informatica Axon Data Governance with a goal to accomplish increased analytical velocity. Job responsibilities include
• Create, implement, and manage the development of scripts to automate everyday operations
• Monitor and maintain multiple (DevOps) environments for increase observability
• Coordinate system migrations and system upgrades working with agency's public cloud manager.
• Develop tools to continuously improve maintainability, monitoring, security and scalability of cloud deployments.
• Operations support and enhancement of the SHARP platform
• All other duties as assigned.
CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum Requirements:
Years Required/Preferred Experience
8 Required Experience with planning, architecting, and implementing AWS Cloud environments
4 Required AWS Management Services experience (CloudWatch, ELB, EC2, CloudTrail and AWS Config), AWS workspaces, and AWS directory Services
4 Required Creating, implementing, and managing the development of scripts to automate everyday operations
4 Required Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment tools and processes
4 Required Demonstrated experience with Linux administration and troubleshooting activities.
4 Required Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Business or equivalent experience.
2 Required Excellent oral and written communication skills.
2 Required Effectively manage multiple responsibilities, prioritize conflicting assignments, and switch quickly between assignments, as required.
2 Preferred Experience working in an agile sprint team.
2 Preferred Prior experience with an HHS agency
1 Preferred AWS Certified DevOps Engineer