Mid-Level DevOps Engineer

About

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

• Designing, implementing, scheduling, testing, and deploying full features and components of solutions, ensuring quality delivery of software through thorough testing and reviews.
• Developing technical solutions to complex problems which require regular use of ingenuity and creativity, exercising considerable latitude in determining technical objectives of assignments.
• Guiding the successful completion of major programs, potentially functioning in a project leadership capacity.
• Representing 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.
• Developing tools and processes to drive DevSecOps maturity by automating builds, regression testing, monitoring, and pushing releases across environments.
• Primarily focusing on building enterprise cloud-native solutions involving Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, and Azure.
• Applying advanced consulting skills and extensive technical expertise, developing innovative solutions to complex problems.
• Working without considerable direction, mentoring and potentially supervising team members.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of directly related experience, or a Master's 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, Cloudformation, Terraform, and Salt.
• Knowledge of containers, including LXC and Docker.
• Experience with Amazon AWS services and APIs, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud services.