DevOps Engineer

Overview

  • Location: Chicago, Illinois
  • Remote: Remote
  • Type: Contract
  • Job #15402

We are looking for an experienced Cloud DevOps Engineer. Keen attention to detail, problem-solving abilities, and validated knowledge of secure DevOps is crucial. Keys to this role are a strong understanding of AWS – Cloud formation scripts, Github-actions and building CI/CD pipelines.

JOB OVERVIEW AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Architect secure, reusable and highly available + scalable DevOps Cloud infrastructure and code pipelines.
• Working with Developers to determine and prioritize requirements
• Build new and reusable pipelines for development teams to support self-sufficiency in infrastructure and code deployment
• Work/Partner within the internal Plat Form Ops teams to solve organizational needs
• Fully focused on Cloud Migration (little to no on-prem support besides understanding of existing infrastructure)
• Architect reusable and agile pipelines, automate to enable developer independence
• Design and implement build, deployment, and configuration management
• Continuously review and improve implemented designs
• Build and test automation tools for infrastructure provisioning
• Handle code deployments in all environments
• Ensure capacity management of specific computing platforms, network engineering and storage management is established
• Ensure engineering solutions are clearly communicated for implementation
• Ensure compliance of engineering policies, standards, and procedures within functional team
• Take ownership of issues and act with high sense of urgency when required
• Participate in problem management processes to resolve root cause of failures and improve performance and reliability of systems and networks
• Participate in troubleshooting of infrastructure and/or application related issues
• Experience with site monitoring and log monitoring tools, specifically Datadog.
• Build and operate tools for monitoring performance and security
• Demonstrate an innovative mentality by staying aware of new developments within the technology space and identify which new technologies to adapt to provide value to our business.
• Produce lean and well-written technical project documentation and operational runbooks
• Maintains knowledge on current technology by reading technology periodicals, evaluating new technologies and attending trade-shows, technical seminars and training sessions.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS – KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS
• 8+ years combined experience in DevOps and operations/or relevant in IT
• CI/CD tools – Harness, CloudFormation, GitActions, GitHub
• Experience with AWS Cloud Formation, GitHub Actions, AWS Lamba functions

• Automated Code Scanning (SaaS and DaaS, Wiz, Veracode)• Cloud Infrastructure as Code, Automated Deployment Pipelines, Code Version Control, Infrastructure provisioning
• Docker Containerization and hosting (building images, hosting in scalable cloud platforms such as Kubernetes, AWS EKS or ECS Fargate)
• .NET Core, Linux, Windows, Database SQL (MS SQL) or NoSQL technologies in the cloud
• Scripting languages such as JavaScript, PHP, Python, Shell, PowerShell, .NET
• High volume logging solutions (OpenSearch, Kafka, fluentbit/FluentD)
• Manage monitoring of overall application availability, latency and system health
• Determine alert standards for production environments and implement them
• Work with the development team and management to ensure high availability
• Experience in automated build pipeline, and continuous integration. Source control, branching, & merging: git/svn/etc (Repository Management)

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