IT Specialist (SI Engineer) (Term Appointment)

As an IT Specialist (SI Engineer) (Term Appointment) at the GS-2210-14, you will be part of the Mission Applications Management Division (MAMD), Office of the Chief Information Officer, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). If selected, you will serve as the Senior Applications Platform Engineer, in support of the agency's System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process.

Administers enterprise cloud platform services and shared infrastructure components to support the secure, reliable, and efficient operation of mission-critical applications.

Designs, implements, and enhances platform services, containerized environments, and supporting infrastructure to improve application performance, scalability, and availability.

Develops, maintains, and automates infrastructure deployments, system configurations, and operational processes using infrastructure-as-code and related automation tools.

Establishes and implements technical standards, development practices, and security requirements that support application development, deployment, and maintenance activities across multiple projects.

Designs, manages, and supports application integration services, including enterprise application programming interfaces (APIs), authentication services, and shared platform capabilities.

Monitors platform performance, security, and operational health; analyzes issues and implements corrective actions to improve system reliability and service delivery.

Leads application modernization efforts by evaluating existing technologies, recommending improvements, and supporting the migration of legacy solutions to modern cloud-based platforms.

Reviews system architectures, application designs, and technical solutions to ensure compliance with security requirements, enterprise standards, and organizational objectives.

Provides technical leadership, consultation, and advanced troubleshooting support for development teams, project stakeholders, and organizational leadership on complex technology initiatives.

This position does not have an education qualification requirement. Although not required, the following tools and technologies are highly desirable: Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java Spring Boot, Karma, Protractor, JIRA, GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, USWDS, RDBMS' such as Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL., Azure platform services, including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Registry (ACR), App Service, API Management (APIM), Key Vault, Azure Monitor, and Azure Service Bus, infrastructure-as-code tools, such as Bicep and Terraform, platform observability tools for monitoring, logging, and alerting, CI/CD pipeline design and operation tools such as Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), Kubernetes and Helm for orchestration.