Cloud DevSecOps Engineer IV

Position: Cloud DevSecOps Engineer IV
Location: Birmingham, AL
Duration: 6 months
Job ID: 178667

Job Overview:
The Cloud DevSecOps Engineer IV contributes to the advancement of cloud strategy by developing, communicating, and implementing robust and secure cloud continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. This role collaborates closely with stakeholders to create fully automated pipelines that align with current DevSecOps best practices.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with engineers and IT staff to orchestrate code builds, quality and security analyses, deployments, and automated testing through CI/CD pipelines.
• Translate business needs into technology solutions.
• Model release candidate CI/CD pipelines to communicate the states and steps necessary for application and service release candidates.
• Design and develop fully autonomous CI/CD pipelines for cloud deployments, including automation of infrastructure services and application build and deployment.
• Ensure all pipeline components follow best software engineering practices, including automated tests and infrastructure tests.
• Research new technologies to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
• Implement scalable CI/CD platforms to support high change volumes and fast feedback.
• Complete project work and contribute to the technical direction of various objectives.
• Automate operational activities and tasks.
• Respond to performance issues identified by alerts and reported incidents related to CI/CD platforms.
• Build tools to reduce errors and improve customer experiences.
• Troubleshoot production issues and ensure pipelines and infrastructure provide clear documentation and metrics for root cause analysis.
• Develop and test Ansible Playbooks, Terraform Scripts, and Packer Scripts to establish immutable infrastructure.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security (InfoSec), Software Delivery, and Quality Assurance teams to enable cloud automation.
• Act as a resource and mentor for colleagues with less experience.

Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED and ten (10) years of related post-secondary education and/or experience in Information Security or Information Technology.

Preferences:

• Six (6) years of relevant DevSecOps experience.
• AWS DevOps certification or Azure DevOps certification.
• Experience in building and deploying cloud-native applications, such as OpenShift and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Experience in observing real-time metrics in pipelines and deployment strategies, including Blue/Green and Canary Deployment.
• Experience with AWS or Azure cloud technologies.
• Experience interfacing with secrets management solutions like HashiCorp Vault.
• Familiarity with implementing Chaos engineering principles in pipelines to identify weak links and suggest solutions.
• Familiarity with testing tools for automation and integration into CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency in developing pipelines as code using YAML specs and Ansible Playbooks.

Skills and Competencies:

• Excellent communication skills and ability to mentor developers and team members in DevSecOps practices.
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure, networking services, and architectural patterns, including virtual machines, managed infrastructure, containers, serverless, database services, security services, and application services.
• Proficiency in Python programming language.
• Understanding of Shift Left principles and facilitation technologies.
• Working knowledge of Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Git, and ServiceNow.

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Pay Range: $70 - $75/hr. W2.

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