DevOps Architect / Principal Engineer

Kforce Inc; Evansville (IN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a DevOps Architect/Principal Engineer in Evansville, IN. This role is pivotal in defining and driving strategies for harmonizing DevOps capabilities and services. You will collaborate with technology leaders to evolve the DevOps approach, ensuring it aligns with business objectives. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in DevOps, strong engineering skills, and a passion for mentoring high-performing teams. Join this innovative firm and help shape the future of their DevOps initiatives, enhancing delivery capabilities and fostering continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in a Sr DevOps role with 3+ years as a Principal Engineer.
• Strong skills in engineering, communication, and mentoring teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive strategies for DevOps capabilities and services.
• Build and automate the DevOps platform for resiliency and performance.

Skills

DevOps

Cloud Computing

Containerization

Infrastructure as Code

Troubleshooting

Process Management

Communication Skills

Team Leadership

Education

BA/BS in Computer Science

Advanced Degree (desired)

Tools

DevOps Tools

Logging and Monitoring Tools

Job description

Kforce has a client that is seeking a DevOps Architect/Principal Engineer in Evansville, IN. Responsibilities:

• DevOps Architect/Principal Engineer will be accountable for defining, socializing, and driving strategies for harmonizing DevOps capabilities and services.
• Keep apprised of evolving industry capabilities and standards, seeking opportunities to leverage.
• Work with technology leaders to understand product roadmaps and to define and evolve the DevOps approach to facilitate broadening business objectives.
• Support the creation of a DevOps target state platform and collaborate with technology teams to evolve delivery capability atop the platform.
• Build and automate the DevOps platform to ensure resiliency, performance, reproducibility, scalability, and full stack observability.
• Evolve release engineering advancing identifiable, reproducible, and consistent practices which matures the ability to build, track, and consistently deliver complex cross-cutting products.
• As a DevOps Architect/Principal Engineer, you will assess and recommend environment strategies both in the cloud and on the ground that effectively accelerate predictable delivery and reduce cycle time.
• Develop architectural prototypes to wring out risk from new solutions.
• Produce artifacts (e.g. architecture logical and physical models, standards, and archetypes) that support the implementation of the DevOps strategy and work with product teams to ensure alignment with enterprise standards.
• Evolve and publish metrics driving continuous improvement in quality, efficiency, and speed.

Requirements:

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; Advanced degree desired.
• 8 years+ of experience in a Sr DevOps role showing progressive experience with at least 3+ years as a DevOps Principal Engineer.
• Strong engineering, communication, operational and organizational skills. Proven ability to recruit, motivate, and mentor geographically distributed high-performing teams.
• Experienced in streamlining and modernizing OnPrem data centers by adopting a unified DevOps approach across the public and private cloud with containerization and infrastructure as code.
• Experience in the design and build out of the DevOps platform with integrations to a curated set of tools exposed as interfaces and advanced but easy-to-manage logging, alerting, and monitoring strategies for full stack observability and quick problem resolution.
• Strong troubleshooting and process management skills.