Cloud DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities

Kforce has a client that is seeking a Cloud DevOps Engineer. Candidate will work hybrid onsite in Birmingham, Nashville, Atlanta or Charlotte. Summary: 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. Duties:
• Partner 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
• Research new technologies that will improve efficiency and effectiveness
• Implements highly scalable applications
• Maintains 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
• Build 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
• Three 3+ years of experience as a DevOps practitioner
• Experience with either AWS including Lambda, S3 Buckets, Kafka
• Ideal candidate will have experience with Harness, if no Harness experience, must have Jenkins and Docker
• 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
• Experience with interfacing with secrets management solutions like HashiCorp Vault
• Working knowledge of Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Git, ServiceNow a big plus
• 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
• Familiar with implementing Chaos engineering principles in the pipeline in order to determine weak links and suggest solutions
• Proficient in Python programming language
• Must be comfortable in developing pipelines as code using YAML specs, ansible playbooks
• C#/Python nice to have - ideally do API development, but would eventually need to be able to consume API's

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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