Sr DevOps Engineer

Sr DevOps Engineer

VARITE is looking for a qualified Sr DevOps Engineer – in (San Francisco, CA or Salt Lake City, UT). A central banking system of the United States that manages monetary policy, regulates financial institutions, provides banking services, and acts as a lender of last resort during financial crises. Established in the Year 2000, VARITE is an award-winning minority business enterprise providing global consulting & staffing services to Fortune 1000 companies and government agencies. With 850+ global consultants, VARITE is committed to delivering excellence to its customers by leveraging its global experience and expertise in providing comprehensive scientific, engineering, technical, and non-technical staff augmentation and talent acquisition services.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Defines standards to guide solution decisions in relation to multiple integration technologies.
• Leads efforts to establish, define, maintain and communicate automation architecture guidelines, principles, standards and best practices across multiple product teams as they migrate to the cloud.
• Leads architecture and development for Infrastructure as Code (IAC).
• Defines and documents continuous integration/continuous deployment best practices.
• Design, Build, Maintain and improve existing build and deployment processes across all products.
• Collaborates with Integration engineers, to create automation best practices.
• Designs and deploys new application components and infrastructures
• Implements and maintains a continuous integration environment.
• Supports and troubleshoots product and infrastructure issues.
• Writes configuration scripts for automation tools and automates recurring tasks.
• Actively monitors and administers cloud-hosted applications and builds integrations.
• Solves difficult problems with scripting language across multiple environments.
• Implements and maintains security in accordance with Bank security policies.
• Drive improvement opportunities in infrastructure, tooling, and workflows using a continuous feedback loop
• Ensure uptime and reliability of Cloud based infrastructure and systems, monitoring system performance, and maintaining high availability of cloud-based assets.
• Participate in incident Response and Troubleshooting by conducting root cause analysis and implementing solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Provide on call production support

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or other technical degree
• Typically requires 7+ years of relevant technical or business experience with 5 years of experience in managing complex systems using software.
• General familiarity with automated deployments.
• Proven experience with architecture and development of CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with IBM ACE/MQ, Mulesoft, AWS Transfer Family is preferred.
• Experience in common scripting language (shell, Python, Perl, YAML etc.,)
• Proven ability to write clear and concise technical documents including design documents, specifications and technology roadmaps.
• Requires recent demonstrable experience with GITLAB pipeline architecture and coding. Capable to stitch together Terraform, AWS CLI commands and BASH scripting.
• Ability to write and develop Terraform modules for different infrastructure setup, installation and configuration.
• Recent experience with AWS CLI including S3, EC2, ASG, ELB, SFTP, Cloud Formation, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Lambda etc.
• AWS Certification and/or experience utilizing AWS services
• Working experience in Ansible, GitLab, Terraform, CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Grafana or equivalent is a must
• Practical application of AI tooling in:
• Accelerating Terraform module development and IaC implementations
• Generating and optimizing CI/CD pipeline configurations (GitLab YAML)
• Creating and refactoring scripts (Python, Bash, Shell)
• Documenting technical architectures and API specifications
• Troubleshooting complex integration issues
• Integration experience with Micro Services is a plus
• Must be a U.S. Citizen or a Green Card holder with the intent to become a U.S. Citizen

BENEFITS: We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the health, well-being, and financial security of our employees and their families. Eligible employees may receive:

• Health Insurance: Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Retirement Plans: Participation in a company-sponsored retirement savings plan.
• Legal Service Plans: Offering access to attorneys for legal advice and representation.

Know someone who would be perfect for this role? Refer to us and if they are hired, you could be eligible for our employee referral bonus! Help us grow our team with top talent from your network. VARITE is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.