DevOps Engineer

Position: Mid-Level DevOps Engineer

Location: Remote

Duration: Long term Contract

Overview:

• We are seeking a highly skilled Mid-Level DevOps Engineer who understands cloud architectural constructs and can establish and maintain cloud environments utilizing vendor consoles and programmatically. This role leverages a complete DevOps pipeline to drive rapid delivery of functionality to the client at hyper speed. The candidate will engage with multiple functional groups to comprehend client challenges prototype new ideas and technologies and help to create solutions driving the next wave of innovation.
• Responsibilities include designing implementing scheduling testing and deploying full features and components of solutions ensuring quality delivery of software through thorough testing and reviews. The candidate should possess specialized knowledge of cloud-specific technologies and services as well as familiarity with Cloud Command Line Interfaces (CLI) and Cloud SDKs. They will develop technical solutions to complex problems which require regular use of ingenuity and creativity exercising considerable latitude in determining technical objectives of assignments.
• Additionally the role involves guiding the successful completion of major programs potentially functioning in a project leadership capacity. The candidate will represent the organization as the prime technical contact on contracts and projects often interacting with senior external personnel on significant technical matters requiring coordination between organizations.
• The engineer will work on developing tools and processes to drive DevSecOps maturity by automating builds regression testing monitoring and pushing releases across environments. They will primarily focus on building enterprise cloud-native solutions involving Kubernetes Docker AWS and Azure. The candidate should apply advanced consulting skills and extensive technical expertise developing innovative solutions to complex problems. They will work without considerable direction mentoring and potentially supervising team members.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree and 5 years of directly related experience or a Masters degree with 3 years of directly related experience. Equivalent years of experience or relevant certifications may be accepted in lieu of a degree for certain roles.
• 4 years of experience with DevOps for Containerized and Kubernetes production systems.
• 3 years of experience with AWS including services like EC2 S3 SQS SNS RDS DynamoDB KMS SSM ELB VPC or Route53.
• 3 years of experience with CI/CD and developer workflow automation such as GitHub Actions GitLab CI or AWS CodeStar and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform AWS CDK or AWS CloudFormation.
• 3 years of experience with Kubernetes Deployment and GitOps tooling such as Helm Flux or Argo CD.
• Experience with Cloud and Network Security architecture including least privilege and IAM secrets management RBAC and Boundary Protection.
• Experience with vulnerability management and dynamic and static code analysis.
• 4 years of experience with one or more of the following programming languages: C C Java Perl Python Go or scripting in Shell or PowerShell.
• Knowledge of alerts and monitoring tools and system management tools for environments and configuration management.
• Knowledge of Cloud orchestration tools including Ansible Chef Puppet Cloud formation Terraform and Salt.
• Knowledge of containers including LXC and with Amazon AWS services and APIs Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud services.