DevOps Engineer

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

• Collaborating with web/API development team to leverage DevOps and automation to build highly robust and scalable apps
• Partnering with experience platform squads for engineering standards, standard methodologies, and tooling, to ensure maintainability and stability of the codebase
• Collaborating with other team members and stakeholders to analyze and solve problems
• Staying ahead of the curve by aligning architecture, user experience, and security with chapters and COEs
• Supporting a cloud-first world through upskilling and augmenting squads with solid knowledge of cloud technologies
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other related field
• 3+ years of software engineering, configuration management & release engineering for large-scale enterprise applications
• Solid understanding and experience of version control system management using various Git workflows
• Experience in DevOps best practices and tools like Jenkins or Jenkins Core, Git/GitHub, SonarQube, and artifact repositories like Artifactory
• Experience in container and cloud technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes and Azure/AWS
• Experience in different build tools and package managers for different programing languages, e.g.: Maven, Gradle, NPM
• Experience with core Azure/AWS Services and ability to build automated processes using SDK or CLI
• Experience with Kubernetes for large-scale enterprise services
• Knowledge of Splunk and Datadog or other logging, observability, monitoring, or SRE tool
• Strong understanding of CI/CD Processes, and experience with tools like Jenkins and Jenkins Core
• Solid knowledge of 12-factor methodology, containerization, and cloud technologies
• Developer oriented mindset with ability to design automations to solve problems and create solutions; Proficient in scripting languages such as Java, Groovy, Shell, Python and/or similar languages
• Ability to understand the complete development flow and make recommendations on changes or improvements to the development teams: Testing Stages, Coverage Reports, Quality Gates, Security Scans, Environment Promotions