The Cloud DevOps Engineer will play a pivotal role in advancing our cloud strategy. The primary focus of this role will include developing, communicating and implementing cloud Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines which are robust and secure. This role will work closely with all stakeholders to create fully automated pipelines which support current DevOps best practices. This is a 100% Remote opportunity and is a Contract to Hire role.
Job Description
- Partners with other developers and other information technology staff to oversee code releases
- Articulates business needs and translate them into technology solutions
- Designs and develops fully autonomous ci/cd pipelines which facilitate cloud deployments which includes automation of all infrastructure, services and application build and deployment
- Ensures that all parts of the pipeline follow good software engineering practices to include unit tests and infrastructure tests
- Researches new technologies that will improve efficiency and effectivenessImplements highly scalable applicationsMaintains health of cloud-based production environments through monitoring and typical daily administration duties
- Automates operational activities and tasks
- Responds to performance issues identified by alerts and reported incidents
- Builds tools which reduce errors and improve our overall customer experiences
- Assists in troubleshooting of production issues and ensure pipeline and infrastructure produces clear documentation and metrics which enables Root Cause Analysis
- Develops and tests Ansible Playbooks, Terraform Scripts, Packer Scripts and establish immutable infrastructure such that patches are an artifact of the past
- Works with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security (InfoSec), Application Development to enable the organization to move to the cloud using complete automation
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or High school diploma or GED and seven (7) of DevOps experience
- Three (3) years experience as a DevOps practitioner
- Experience with either AWS or Azure cloud technologies
- Working Knowledge of Harness, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Git, ServiceNow a big plus
- Familiar with implementing Chaos engineering principles in the pipeline in order to determine weak links and suggest solutions.
- Proficient in python programming language
- Excellent knowledge of Cloud Infrastructure Compute Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Virtual Machines (VM's), SQL Amazon Relational Database Service (AWS RDS) or Azure SQL, Document Data Store (DynamoDb,Mongo), Security Groups, Subnets
- Experience in building / deploying cloud native applications OpenShift, , Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Experience in observing real-time metrics in the pipeline and deployment strategies Blue/Green, Canary Deployment
- Must be comfortable in developing pipelines as code using yaml specs, ansible playbooks
- Experience with interfacing with secrets management solutions like Hashicorp Vault
- Excellent communication skills and willing to mentor developers and other team members in the art of DevOps
- Experience with either AWS or Azure cloud technologies
Preferences
- Preferred AWS DevOps certification or Azure DevOps certification
