Senior Backend DevOps Engineer (Remote Opportunity)

VetsEZ is currently seeking a Senior Backend DevOps Engineer for a 100% remote position supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs' Joint Longitudinal Viewer (JLV) program. JLV is a mission-critical clinical application that aggregates real-time patient data from VA and DoD systems, enabling clinicians to access a unified longitudinal view of patient health information. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience operating containerized microservices in AWS ECS, designing enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines, implementing observability and SRE practices, and supporting secure, compliant, highly available cloud environments.

The candidate must reside within the continental US.

Responsibilities

• Operate and optimize Amazon ECS deployments for JLV backend microservices.
• Configure and manage service scaling, task definitions, health checks, and blue/green deployment strategies.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions aligned with VA Enterprise Cloud (VAEC) architecture standards.
• Support multi-region high availability and disaster recovery environments within AWS GovCloud.
• Design, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines for containerized microservices.
• Automate build, test, security scanning, deployment, verification, and rollback processes.
• Create repeatable deployment procedures and release workflows supporting VA governance requirements.
• Automate system configuration, database updates, performance tuning, and post-deployment validation.
• Build and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and notification systems for JLV backend services.
• Execute backup, restore, outage recovery, and incident response procedures.
• Develop operational runbooks and support production readiness activities.
• Establish performance baselines and support load testing and release validation.
• Implement security controls supporting FedRAMP High, NIST 800-53, FISMA, and VA compliance frameworks.
• Integrate security practic