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Senior Devops Automation Engineer - Hybrid - Either Virtual or F2F Interview

RICEFW Technologies IncDurham, NC🇺🇸United StatesPosted Oct 22, 2026

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Durham, NC, United States
Posted
20 hours ago
DockerShellTeamCityGitAWSAnsibleBashJenkinsPythonTerraformKubernetesCI/CDLinux

Job Description

The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) requires the assistance of a Senior Automation engineer to help automate and improve the build, deploy and operation of (NC FAST) Applications.

The primary role is to lead Automation effort of infrastructure provisioning, build and deploy activities for NC FAST applications. This position must demonstrate a solid understanding of AWS infrastructure and software release life cycle.
The role involves creating and maintaining Ansible playbooks, troubleshooting automation issues, ensuring consistent and reliable deployments across environments, and collaborating with DevOps and application teams to enhance CI/CD workflows. Strong knowledge of Linux, Ansible Tower/AWX, YAML, automation best practices, and infrastructure-as-code principles is required. Experience with debugging deployments, validating configurations, and improving release reliability is aplus.

The position will work with IT management to improve the software engineering processes and practices associated with continuous integration and Continuous deployment (CI/CD) of application changes. This position will interact with the architects, developers, deployment Team, and Database Administrators to ensure automation of various tasks.

This position is required to be on call for evenings and weekends as required to meet business needs.

Required/Desired Skills
Skill Required /Desired Amount of Experience
Experience with automating Linux OS and software patches and upgrades across multiple environments using automations tools like Ansible Required 7 Years
Hands on Experience (like branching, merging, configuring, and administering) with BitBucket or GIT Source Code Management tool Required 3 Years
Hands on experience in Automating build/deploy process including changes to database using tools like Ansible Required 7 Years
Experience developing automation scripts, operational utilities, and workflow scripts using Python/Bash/Shell Required 7 Years
Experience building and packaging applications with Docker, and managing and scaling containerized workloads using Kubernetes Required 2 Years
Experience in infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and environment management using Terraform and Ansible Required 4 Years
Hands on experience developing and managing CI/CD (DevOps) pipeline using tools like Teamcity, Jenkins, Ansible Required 2 Years
Strong knowledge and understanding of Amazon web Services and infrastructure Highly desired 2 Years
Questions
No. Question
Question1 Absences greater than two weeks MUST be approved by CAI management in advance, and contact information must be provided to CAI so that the resource can be reached during his or her absence. The Client has the right to dismiss the resource if he or she does not return to work by the agreed upon date. Do you accept this requirement?
Question2 Please list some of your key achievements for Process(build/deploy, patches/fixes etc.) automation along with tools/technologies used.
Question3 Briefly describe your experience in creating and managing Ansible playbooks, including their purpose.
Question4 Please provide candidate's current location (City and state), NOT a Yes or No response.
Question5 Please indicate how soon this candidate is available to start work. Vendors are encouraged to submit candidates that are available for the duration of the assignment.
Question6 will the candidate be subcontracted at the time of submission?
Question7 Vendor must notify the agency if any portion of the requirements listed in this task order are to be outsourced to other countries. Do you accept this requirement?
Question8 Payment for all approved hours will be paid at the straight hourly rate regardless of the total hours worked by the engaged resource. It is the responsibility of the supplier to adhere to any applicable compensation laws including payment for overtime hours. Do you accept this requirement?
Question9 Please confirm you have thoroughly validated, and attest to the accuracy of, the credentials listed throughout this candidate's VectorVMS profile and resume pursuant to Section 5.2.5 of ITS-009440. Do you confirm?
Question12 Please list candidate's email address HERE that will be used when submitting E-RTR.

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