DevOps Engineer

Overview

The Dev Ops Engineer will play a crucial role in advancing the CDC Foundation’s mission by providing engineering and technical guidance for the design, planning, development, and delivery of critical applications in a public health organization. This role is aligned to the Workforce Acceleration Initiative (WAI), a federally funded CDC Foundation program that helps the nation’s public health agencies by providing the technology and data experts they need to accelerate their information system improvements.

Working within the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, the Dev Ops Engineer will drive optimizations and improvements in the security, agility, responsiveness, and efficiency of deployment environments and applications. The candidate will be responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining secure cloud environments while building the automated integrations within Snowflake to enable automated data linkage and exchange across core public health systems.

The role ensures that infrastructure, security controls, and deployment pipelines are robust, scalable, and reliable enough to support high‑volume, mission‑critical data flows.

The Dev Ops Engineer will be hired by the CDC Foundation and assigned to the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Public Health and Safety Division. This position is eligible for a fully remote work arrangement for U.S. based candidates.

• Assess existing AWS-based public health data systems, including compute resources, databases, networking, integrations, and security configurations.
• Design, implement, and document AWS cloud infrastructure to support secure, scalable public health data systems.
• Support cloud environment setup and refinement across development, testing, and production environments.
• Support cloud migration and modernization activities, including planning, testing, cutover support, rollback planning, and post-deployment stabilization.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform to automate provisioning and ensure consistent, repeatable deployments.

• Implement and document security controls aligned with state and federal standards, including encryption, role-based access control (RBAC), secrets management, and network protections.
• Configure AWS and Snowflake security features to protect sensitive public health data.
• Support security reviews, risk identification, and remediation planning related to cloud infrastructure and data platforms.
• Create and improve monitoring, logging, and alerting to increase system visibility and support operational readiness.
• Contribute to incident analysis and post-incident reviews related to migration or modernization activities, focusing on prevention and system improvement.

• Support the configuration and management of Snowflake environments used for public health data storage, linkage, and analysis.
• Build and manage secure Snowflake data integrations that enable automated data exchange across public health surveillance systems.
• Support role management, access controls, and performance optimization within Snowflake.
• Assist with the design and implementation of API-based integrations and reverse-ETL workflows to transmit data securely between systems.

• Establish and support CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and data integration deployments.
• Assist application and data teams with deploying infrastructure and services in a reliable, automated manner.
• Review infrastructure and integration code and consult with other engineers on reliability, security, and performance considerations.
• Support configuration management and automation practices to reduce manual effort and improve consistency.

• Support functional, performance, and security testing to validate cloud infrastructure and integration workflows.
• Assist with load and capacity testing related to migration or integration activities to ensure systems can support expected usage.
• Document testing…