DevOps Engineer

Kforce has a client that is seeking a DevOps Engineer in Westlake, TX. Key Tasks:

• Identify functional & non-functional requirements that are not currently met by the required capabilities and advocate solutions to address these gaps; Apply appropriate approaches to assessing trade-offs among architectural goals
• Implement commit, acceptance and release capabilities from roadmap across CaaS/Internal/External cloud platforms with reference pipeline
• Actively participate in planning, definition, design & integration of pipeline services releases working with other BU SME's/Architects as required to assure consistency of product development and adoption of the product asset base across the product line
• Lead the implementation of generic common components/services aspects of pipelines, which may include applications, infrastructure, security and/or database strategies
• Participate in defining the technical & coding standards and guidelines for the team or group as well as implementing a strong internal DevOps process
• Participate in critical problem solving and sophisticated technical troubleshooting to assist the organization; driving resolution to technical issues; lead and perform impact analysis
• Work with Tech Leads and architects on evolving our pipeline service strategies to align industry trends with product strategy to drive business success
• Build relationships with development teams with quick alignment of value and understanding of the business and technology
• Identify measurable dimensions (including return on investment) of a problem and present the options with pros and cons
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related fields, Master's degree a plus
• Azure Cloud Certification
• 5+ years of experience in Large Application Deployment Automation and DevOps implementations
• Experience in cloud application deployment automation patterns and various scripting languages
• Experience in Enterprise level Cloud Based Application Development and deployment
• Experience with DevOps tools like Bitbucket, Jenkins, JenkinsCore, Artifactory, SonarQube, etc.
• Experience with core scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, Go and Java, as well as strong Unix/shell skills
• Experience in proven delivery and proposing solutions, roadmaps and collaboratively defining solutions and the needed architecture to enable it
• Hands-on experience of CI/CD pipelines for cloud applications
• Understanding of cloud security
• Solid understanding of application deployment and management patterns
• Solid understanding application and data security for cloud applications
• Solid understanding of logging, monitoring and operational aspects of cloud applications
• Knowledge of cloud provisioning and management tools like Cloud Formation and Terraform
• Application Development based on Jira stories
• Acquaintance with 12 Factor principles, API Design and deployment patterns/strategies
• Excellent presentation, documentation, communication and influencing skills, as well as skills which present/influence technology direction in business context to the collaborators
• Ability to provide technical leadership to the development, QA and support teams in preparing the design artifacts and implementation of solutions
• Ability to identify integration patterns and points between various design areas and should be able to track the implementation of integrations