DevOps Engineer

About

Dice is the leading career destination for tech experts at every stage of their careers. Our client, Ztek Consulting, is seeking the following.

Role

DevOps Engineer, on-site in Cincinnati, OH - Full-time

Experience Required

10 - 25 + Years

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills And Roles & Responsibilities

Programming

• DevOps
• Automation & AI
• Advanced PowerShell automation and scripting frameworks
• C# / .NET application and platform development

Source Control & Engineering Practices

• Git-based development workflows
• Branching strategies and pull request processes
• Code review and engineering quality practices
• Modern DevOps development methodologies

Artificial Intelligence Engineering Experience

Hands-on experience integrating AI capabilities into development workflows working with:

• Semantic Kernel
• Azure AI Foundry
• Comparable enterprise AI orchestration frameworks

Experience working with modern LLM ecosystems such as:

• Anthropic Claude models
• Gemini models
• Microsoft Copilot models

AI Development Practices:

• Prompt engineering
• AI-assisted development workflows
• Codex-driven development
• AI agent orchestration

Roles & Responsibilities

Automation Platform Development (Lite-Touch)

Design and build a Lite-Touch Automation Platform that enables scalable workstation provisioning and configuration management.

Responsibilities include:

• Architect and develop an enterprise automation framework enabling deterministic workstation configuration deployment
• Implement modular automation workflows supporting policy-driven configuration management
• Ensure 100% repeatable configuration outcomes
• Enable input-driven configuration provisioning using structured configuration inputs
• Integrate automation capabilities with enterprise request and service management platforms
• Implement logging, traceability, and auditability across automation workflows
• Manage configuration artifacts using version-controlled configuration management practices
• Eliminate configuration drift and manual build inconsistencies through automated enforcement

Configuration Quality Verification Platform

Design and develop a Configuration Quality Verification Platform that validates workstation configurations against requested standards and enterprise quality policies.

Responsibilities include:

• Build automated verification workflows validating workstation configuration states
• Implement compliance validation aligned with enterprise quality standards
• Detect configuration drift and unauthorized configuration changes
• Verify alignment between requested and deployed configurations
• Generate automated reports and audit artifacts for regulatory compliance
• Enable engineering teams to perform automated quality assurance for workstation environments