Infrastructure Engineer (Software)

Position Overview

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• Job Type: Full-time (contingent, pending contract award)
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Nava is a consultancy and public benefit corporation dedicated to making government services simple and effective. Since 2013, Nava has been trusted by federal, state, and local agencies to address complex technology modernization challenges. As a client services company, Nava guides agencies constrained by legacy systems toward a future with superior user experiences, built on secure, reliable, and fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure. Nava bills for its time, offering expertise and problem-solving to help government partners enhance their digital products and services. People are central to Nava's work, from the public relying on benefit programs to government agency staff. Through human-centered design and modern engineering best practices, Nava helps government partners better understand user needs and deliver on their missions more effectively, offering meaningful, impactful, and public-good-connected work.

Position Summary

You will join small teams to build scalable infrastructure for government services used by millions of Americans. You are passionate about technology that improves lives but understand it's not always the sole solution. You are dedicated to making large-scale systems secure, scalable, and fast. You will operate within the government ecosystem, collaborating with other government contractors and civil servants. This involves navigating diverse working styles and cultural norms, but also allows for the delivery of larger-scale and more complex projects. The government environment includes bureaucracy and a regulated process for software development, with checks and compliance built-in. Nava views these constraints as opportunities for creative engineering solutions within existing frameworks to achieve mission goals. You will engage with legacy systems, often with poor documentation and unreliable information, to replicate system behavior or integrate with them. This is an ideal role for engineers who enjoy software archaeology and are committed to building systems for longevity and resilience.

Responsibilities

• Work with a cross-functional team to deliver on project requirements.
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Code, manage, configure, and maintain services.
• Update documentation and runbooks.
• Join an on-call rotation as a first line of defense during production issues.
• Participate in hiring activities (e.g., submitting referrals, conducting interviews, attending interview debriefs), as needed.
• Build and maintain Terraform IaC and GitHub Actions workflows.
• Collaborate with other engineers to ensure the performance and reliability of services running on AWS infrastructure.
• Identify and propose infrastructure solutions to address client needs.
• Make infrastructure best practice recommendations to stakeholders.

Required Skills

• Previous experience maintaining a medium or large-scale production system or COTS products using Infrastructure as Code.
• Broad experience with Cloud offerings in AWS.
• Significant experience in one or more of the following:
  • [Specific technologies/languages to be listed here if provided]

About Nava

Nava is a consultancy and public benefit corporation working to make government services simple and effective. Since 2013, federal, state, and local agencies have trusted Nava to help solve highly scrutinized technology modernization challenges. As a client services company, Nava guides agencies constrained by legacy systems to a future with sharp user experiences built on secure, reliable, fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure. Nava bills for its time, offering its expertise and problem-solving approach to help its government partners enhance their digital products and services. People are at the heart of Nava's work, from members of the public who rely on benefit programs to government agency staff. Through human-centered design and modern engineering best practices, Nava helps its government partners better understand user needs and deliver on their missions more effectively. This focus gives everyone at Nava the opportunity to do work that is meaningful, impactful, and deeply connected to public good.