DevOps Engineer
Careerteam · Denver, Colorado, United States · Posted Jul 2, 2026
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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 applicat…