Cloud/DevOps Engineer - II

VARITE INC; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 100,468 - 111,378; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking a Cloud/DevOps Engineer - II in San Francisco, CA. This role involves delivering technology solutions leveraging AWS and ensuring seamless integration within a complex organization. The ideal candidate has 7-10 years of AWS experience, strong technical skills, and a collaborative approach. Responsibilities include designing deployment infrastructure and maintaining security standards. Attractive pay range from $72.93/hr to $80.85/hr commensurate with experience.

Qualifications

• 7-10 years of AWS experience in a DevOps role.
• Strong interpersonal skills for collaboration and negotiation.
• Expertise in implementing and maintaining DevOps infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Provide enterprise-level architecture and vision.
• Design and build automated deployment infrastructure.
• Ensure compliance with security policies.

Skills

AWS experience

Interpersonal skills

Collaboration across IT

Linux and Windows expertise

Configuration Management

CI/CD pipelines

Scripting languages

Terraform

Security tools knowledge

Containerization (Docker)

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

AWS

Terraform

GitLab

Docker

Nexus

Jira

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Base pay range

$72.93/hr - $80.85/hr

Job Title: Cloud/DevOps Engineer - II

Location: San Francisco, CA 94105

Duration: 1 year

Pay Rate: $72.93/hr - $80/hr on W2

Client: A central banking system of the United States that manages monetary policy, regulates financial institutions, provides banking services, and acts as a lender of last resort during financial crises.

Summary: AWS shop, GitLab, hands‑on tech skills with AWS, familiarity with Terraform, scanning tools knowledge (Nexus IQ for example), need someone to come in and hit the ground running, cloud work has been increasing so we need someone who already has those skills.

Qualifications

• 7-10 years of AWS experience delivering technology solutions in a DevOps architectural capacity. “Hands On” experience with significant depth around crafting, implementing, and managing critical multi‑functional components and their integration.
• Strong interpersonal skills, written and oral; strong and proven interpersonal skills to include collaborate in a professional manner, lead working groups, negotiate, influence, and build consensus.
• Proven ability to collaborate and work horizontally throughout a complex organization including exposure across IT including, infrastructure, networking, security, data management, and application development.
• Proven experience implementing, integrating, and maintaining the critical infrastructure for a DevOps environment.
• Knowledge of C++, Java, JavaScript and .Net technology stacks and hands‑on experience of integrating build tools and technologies across the enterprise.
• Expertise working in a Linux and Windows operating systems.
• Experience in coding and scripting using Python, Groovy, Shell, YAML.JSON and other scripting languages.
• Extensive hands‑on experience with Configuration/Build Management, Build/Release Management, and CI/CD pipelines, using tools such as NPM, Maven and GitLab/Git.
• Strong knowledge of installation, configuration, support, and maintenance of GitLab and Artifact Repos (Nexus).
• Experience in preparing and reviewing vulnerability reports using security tools such as Fortify, SonarQube, Nexus IQ and GitLab native scan tools (Semgrep, Gymnasium).
• Experience in setting up Checkov and KICS for IaC scans.
• Experience with Visual Studio, Eclipse, IntelliJ, or any other popular IDEs.
• Ability to work with APIs and Plugins to integrate security tools into established CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience running containerization tools (Docker) workloads in AWS Services; CloudWatch, EC2, Lambda, Fargate, ECS and/or EKS.
• Secrets Management and storage using AWS Secrets Manager, Systems Manager Parameter Store and Vault.
• Experience building and maintaining AWS environments using Terraform scripts and Infrastructure as Code is required.
• Knowledge of Agile tools Jira, VersionOne/HP-ALM.
• Bachelor and/or master’s degree in computer science, Information Management, Information Technology or Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Responsibilities

• Providing architecture, vision, problem anticipation, and problem solving on an enterprise level.
• Stay consistently informed about business, infrastructure, and technical issues to contribute to the development of creative solutions.
• Design, lead, and build an automated deployment tool set and infrastructure including environments, code management using a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery process.
• Takes ownership of technical aspects of software development for assigned applications.
• Ensure conformance to technical standards for programming and design technique.
• Maintain security in accordance with Bank information security policies.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Contract

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

Banking, Financial Services, and IT Services and IT Consulting