Senior Backend DevOps Engineer (Remote Opportunity) at VetsEZ
Philadelphia, PA
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Aug 10, 2026
Philadelphia, PA
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This is a fully remote Senior Backend DevOps Engineer role supporting the VA's Joint Longitudinal Viewer (JLV), a mission-critical clinical data aggregation platform. The engineer will own containerized microservice operations on AWS ECS, design and maintain enterprise CI/CD pipelines, implement observability and SRE practices, and ensure compliance with FedRAMP High, NIST 800-53, and FISMA frameworks within AWS GovCloud. The role suits an experienced cloud/DevOps engineer comfortable with government healthcare environments and VA governance processes.
Senior level · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 5,300 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,550–8,000
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
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Why we read it this way (7)
The role title says 'Backend DevOps Engineer' but the day-to-day work centers on building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and automation code for containerized microservices — consistent with Software Developers (15-1252) rather than pure infrastructure operations (15-1244). The classification is Medium confidence because the role also has a significant operational/SRE component (incident response, runbooks, monitoring) that leans toward 15-1244.
The posting requires U.S. Citizenship and the ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance, but does not gate on holding an active clearance — no clearance is marked as required.
AWS GovCloud experience is listed under 'Additional Qualifications,' which functions as a preferred/nice-to-have section in this posting.
No compensation range is stated.
No minimum total years of experience is explicitly stated at the role level.
The posting mentions 'Infrastructure as Code practices and automation frameworks' without naming specific tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible) — no specific IaC tool is named, so the skill is captured generically as 'Infrastructure as Code.'
Observability is listed as a required practice but no specific tooling (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, CloudWatch) is named in the requirements section.
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