DevOps Engineer

Company: Kforce
Location: Hartford
Posted on: June 25, 2022

Job Description:

Kforce has a client in Hartford, CT that is seeking a DevOps Engineer.Responsibilities: * As a DevOps Engineer, this role will analyze current technology utilized within the company and develop steps and processes to improve and expand upon them * Establish milestones for necessary contributions from departments and develop processes to facilitate their collaboration * Assist other department engineers in creating practical demonstrations of proposed solutions and demonstrating them to other members of the team * Provide detailed specifications for proposed solutions including materials, manpower and time necessary * Provide clear goals for all areas of a project and develop steps to oversee their timely execution * Work closely with engineering professionals within the company to maintain hardware and software needed for projects to be completed efficiently * Mentor and train other engineers throughout the company and seek to continually improve processes companywide * The DevOps Engineer will work alongside project management teams to successfully monitor progress and implementation of initiatives * Assist teams in planning, design and implementation of new or migrated cloud applications, primarily AWS * Act as coach to help others understand and implement DevOps principles and capabilities * Instrument Infrastructure as Code Tooling, Terraform, with highly resilient and scalable design practices * Educate and assist internal development teams with the adoption process * Provide emerging technology recommendations and assist with creating strategic roadmaps and feature sets to be shared with varying levels management * Provide technical guidance, standards and solutions that align with enterprise roadmaps and broader architectural recommendations * In this role, the DevOps Engineer will define patterns and standards for infrastructure design, engineering and development * Senior level experience in cloud-based systems architecture is required, AWS Solutions Architect certification preferred * Experience developing engineering applications for a large corporation * Demonstrated project development and leadership skills * Current understanding of best practices regarding system security measures * Experience working together with teams from several departments to facilitate the orderly execution of a proposed project plan * Professional experience and a high-level understanding of working with various operating systems and their implications * Professional work experience in team building and project organization * Significant understanding and experience with GIT for DevOps integration * Experience with Agile and Rally * Possess the ability to work in an agile team with Kanban based work intake and universal backlog; Must be able to support agile development projects through regular sprint cycles * Senior level experience in cloud-based systems architecture is required * Foundational knowledge of Infrastructure as Code concepts and toolsets are required * Strategic thinking skills * Understanding of current and emerging IT products, services, processes and methodologies * Experience with DevOps tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Nexus, OpenShift, etc. * Experience with automated testing tools development and implementation Significant experience with at least 3 of the following technologies: * Terraform * Ansible * Jenkins * Git Actions * Cucumber Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.*Compensation Type:*Hours*Minimum Compensation:*50.00*Maximum Compensation:*70.00

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