Senior Dev Ops CI/CD Engineer

Job Title: Senior Dev Ops CI/CD Engineer
Location: Remote
Duration: 6+ Months

As a Sr. Dev Ops CICD Pipeline Engineer, you will have an essential role in integrating the project functions and resources across the product life cycle: planning, building, testing, deployment, support, and management of technology-based business solutions to meet business and technical requirements for Client Child Welfare Client program initiatives. This role requires excellent communication and coordination skills to successfully integrate various functions in a coordinated manner and deliver the responsibilities to the customer s satisfaction. The DevOps/CICD Engineer will undertake complex projects requiring additional specialized technical knowledge and decision making on complex or ambiguous application deployment issues.

CI/CD Engineering

• Build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline).
• Select and deploy appropriate CI/CD tools.
• Troubleshoot techniques and fix deficiencies.
• Incidence management and root cause analysis as it relates to the CI/CD Pipeline.

Development & Operations

• Identify and build automated processes and act as the expert in software delivery.
• Implement various development, testing, and automation tools within IT infrastructure.
• Set up tools and required infrastructure.
• Define and set development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation.
• Identify and deploy cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management as it pertains to the CI/CD Pipeline.
• Communicate with all parties involved including senior management, developers, architects, and end users, who may be based in different locations and time zones.
• Coordinate with and responsible for communicating with other teams within Client and vendors as needed.
• Creating and updating applicable technical documentation. Review technical documents produced by vendors.

Leadership

• Ability to work autonomously and make decisions within the CI/CD pipeline.
• Serve as a mentor and guide to team members.
• Coordinate and communicate with team and customers.
• Manage stakeholders and external interfaces.
• Operate as gatekeeper of the deployment pipeline.
• Plan team structure, activities, and involvement in project management activities.

Administration

• Monitor processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and update or create new processes for improvement and efficiency.
• Monitor and measure customer experience and KPIs.
• Manage periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer.
• Experience Required for the Job
• 10+ years of work experience in relevant field.
• 5+ years of experience in AWS DevOps, implementation and management of CI/CD pipelines.
• As needed ability to run the manual build/deploy and support deployment activities for all releases and coordinate with the development teams, provide successful deployment signoffs.
• Build the branching strategy for the application teams to adapt and accommodate to meet the needs of the teams.
• Required knowledge of the following tools: GitHub, GitHub Actions, Workflows, Jira, AWS DevOps, Visual Studio Code/Professional, Salesforce, and IntelliJ w/ Illuminated Cloud.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and conceptual skills.
• Very strong interpersonal skills and ability to work well with others within and across the organization.
• Automation of CICD pipelines in AWS environments using necessary tools, Jenkins, AWS Code Pipeline
• Ansible experience, Terraform/CloudFormation for IaaS code solutions
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an ability to express complex technical concepts in business terms.
• Preferred experience in Containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), System Integration (API or SDK), System Scripting, Basic Networking, and Unit Testing.
• Hands-on experience with at least one configuration/deployment management system e.g., Ansible, Terraform/CloudFormation, or other similar tools.
• Hands-on experience with at least one of the following languages: Node.js, AngularJS, PHP, Ruby, and Java. Proficient with Git and Git workflows.
• Creation of Docker files, Container images and a container image repository.
• Proficiency in leveraging automated testing tools to automate testing.
• Experience with Java, Spring framework, spring boot code to do a build using maven scripts.
• Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in multiple integration and test (I&T) environments.
• Install, configure, and manage Kubernetes clusters supporting the CI/CD deployment pipelines
• Install, configure, and manage additional CI/CD tools in the environment e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, Cucumber
• Install, configure, and manage automated testing tools in the environment.
• Strong background in Linux/UNIX administration (e.g. RedHat/CentOS 7/Alpine Linux).
• Experience with configuration management tools like Puppet and Ansible.
• Knowledge of one or more scripting languages (bash, PowerShell, Python).

Desirable experience:

• Industry vendor certifications are desired (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP or CNCF/Kubernetes certifications); although not essential if you have the experience and demonstrate the ability to work on these technologies.

Education

• Bachelor s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• Salesforce Admin or Developer Certification.