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About Nava Nava is a consultancy and public benefit corporation working to make government services simple and effective. Since 2015, federal, state, and local agencies have trusted Nava to help solve highly scrutinized technology modernization challenges.   As a client services company, we guide agencies constrained by legacy systems to a future with sharp user experiences built on secure, reliable, fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure. We bill for our time, offering our expertise and problem-solving approach to help our government partners enhance their digital products and services. People are at the heart of our work, from members of the public who rely on benefit programs to government agency staff. Through human-centered design and modern engineering best practices, we help our government partners 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.   This role is open for multiple levels and titles. Final title/compensation will be determined by how your interview weighs against our core competencies during your interview cycle. This role is pending contract award.    Position summary  The Infrastructure Engineer will work on cross functional teams to build scalable infrastructure for our government -- designing, implementing, and delivering services that millions of Americans depend on. As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you may be responsible for technical leadership of platform infrastructure projects supporting dev teams and large-scale systems with a strong focus on automation, organization, and communication. Your work enables application development teams to run effectively in the cloud to deliver users a modern experience. You will be responsible for delivering on client requirements as well as providing long-term oversight and vision to help shape future work. Your strong cross-functional communication skills will complement your technical leadership skills to provide the highest value for government systems. What you'll do Building infrastructure as code and DevOps pipelines and reviewing solutions built by others on the team Researching and analyzing technical solutions Maintaining and enhancing documentation using various engineering tools  Managing integrated systems used by the client Completing work received from application teams Proactively identifying blockers, risks, and issues, proposing solutions or escalating as appropriate Researching, selecting, and creating new automation tools or frameworksImplementing automation for a variety of cloud resources Designing initial architecture or changes to architecture for a project Documenting and communicating architecture, technical solution plans, rollout plans and project updates to stakeholders Collaborating with stakeholders to incorporate their feedback Identifying stakeholders and obtaining buy-in Tracking stakeholders’ technical tasks to keep the project on schedule Ensuring any issues or blockers that develop are addressed and resolved Identifying gaps and closing them Staying ahead of staffing issues, ensuring that hiring through subcontractors is efficient Escalating to program manager any concerns raised Building client trust by being available as a sounding board for questions or issues Performing code and technical reviews Facilitating meetings Establishing engineering norms and practices and ensuring compliance Collaborating with teammates to identify and determine solutions Teaching teammates how to manage time, projects and be productive Serving in the on call rotation Facilitating post-mortems after incidents Respond to tickets or routing tickets to the appropriate engineer Applying patches and updates to operating systems and libr