Infrastructure Lead

The primary responsibilities of the position include but are not limited to: 

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available AWS cloud infrastructure. 
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, application, and deployment issues across environments. 
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployments, patching, scaling, and operational tasks. 
• Architect and optimize ECS EC2-based containerized workloads supporting LMS and portal applications. 
• Design resilient multi-tier application architectures including frontend, middleware, APIs, and databases. 
• Review and improve AWS infrastructure for performance, cost optimization, scalability, and reliability. 
• Adhere to security and data protection requirements by implementing low-latency, high-availability, and high-performance features. 
• Support vulnerability scanning, patching, compliance audits, and remediation activities. 
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions. 
• Maintain/improve operational dashboards and health monitoring solutions. 
• Participate in the Agile Scrum and Kanban ceremonies to track and share updates on assigned responsibilities. 

Required Skills and Experience:

• Experience working for CMS or other federal agencies. 
• Minimal of AWS Associate certification. 
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field. 
• Minimum 5+ years of experience supporting AWS Cloud infrastructure. 
• Minimum 2+ years of experience with Relational databases (Oracle, Postgres, etc). 
• Minimum 4+ years of experience with API Gateway tools such as Layer7 gateway, Kong, AWS APIG, etc . 
• Experience supporting containerized applications and microservices architectures. 
• Experience with build/SCM tools such as Maven, Docker, Terraform, Podman, etc. 
• Proven oral and written skills to effectively communicate with external and internal stakeholders. 

Desired Skills and Experience:

• CSOD Experience 
• Automated patching and compliance tooling 
• Cost optimization/Finops Practices 
• Experience with ECS Fargate migrations or modernization initiatives. 

Salary & Benefits Information: 

• The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. 
• C-HIT offers Healthcare Benefits, Remote Working Options, Paid Time Off, PTO cash-out, Training/Certification opportunities, Healthcare Savings Account & Flexible Savings Account, Paid Life Insurance, Short-term & Long-term Disability, 401K Match, Employee Assistance Program, Paid Holidays, and much more perks and Voluntary benefits! 
• Employees of C-HIT shall, as an enduring obligation throughout their term of employment, adhere to all information security requirements as documented in company policies and procedures. 

C-HIT, a CMMI Maturity Level 5 company, focuses on delivering information technology and professional services to Federal and State agencies. 

“C-HIT is an EOE, including disability and veterans”