DevOps Engineer - Azure, Terraform, Jenkins, Python

Addison Group; Des Plaines (IL); Remote; USD 140,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to develop enterprise-wide CI/CD solutions. The role entails leading DevOps efforts, implementing best practices, and mentoring team members. Candidates should have 5-6 years of experience in cloud computing and DevOps practices with strong skills in CI/CD tools like Jenkins and Terraform. This position offers a remote work arrangement with a competitive salary package.

Benefits

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

PTO

Qualifications

• 5-6 years designing, implementing CI/CD solutions and DevOps related practices.
• Strong experience with automation and scripting languages such as Python or JavaScript.
• Very familiar with organizing work using Agile principles.

Responsibilities

• Establish, scale, lead, and mentor Team Members towards our DevOps pursuits.
• Drive process automation focused on eliminating manual steps in application build and deployment.
• Ensure critical system security using best in class cloud security solutions.

Skills

CI/CD expertise

Cloud computing

Python

Containerization with Docker

DevOps practices

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience

Tools

Jenkins

Ansible

Terraform

GitHub

Azure

Job description

Title: Senior DevOps Engineer I – Jenkins, Azure, Terraform, Ansible, Python, Packer, Docker

Location: Remote US – CST/EST Ideally

Salary: $140-155K + 5%

Job Type: Full-Time | Exempt

Benefits: This position is eligible for medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and PTO.

No sponsorship available

We are seeking a talented individual to install a DevOps culture and create an enterprise-wide cutting-edge CI/CD solution to enable fully automated on-premise and cloud-based build and deployment pipeline with IaC capabilities. As a SME within our growing DevOps team, you would lead efforts in architecting and help to implement and optimizing end-to-end CI/CD capabilities for our expanding on-prem and multi-cloud operations.

The team is looking to add a member who is an expert in CI/CD, has exceptional communication skills, strong cloud skills, and is a thought leader in addressing the needs of DevOps organizations.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Establish, scale, lead, and mentor Team Members towards our DevOps pursuits.
• Provide DevOps Tools and CI/CD expertise to software development teams across the enterprise.
• Help build a reusable standard CI/CD pipeline model with built-in quality gates, security, and cutting-edge tools and automation.
• Drive process automation focused on eliminating manual steps in application build and deployment, integrating compliance and quality gates in the process.
• Lead discussion and guide technical teams regarding operational, technical, and procedural best practices.
• Evangelize a fully automated product build and release process, driving a push-button deploy attitude and vision.
• Work with program teams to understand their product development requirements, guide in embracing DevOps principles, prescribed toolchain, and pipeline framework.
• Be highly familiar with cloud services, having supported large scale production deployments on one or more of these platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud GCP).
• Build, release, and configuration management of production systems.
• System troubleshooting and problem-solving across platform and application domains.
• Remain abreast of technology advancements for future cloud, software, and other relative implementations and capabilities.
• Provide technical guidance in architecture and DevOps process improvements.
• Evaluate new technology options and vendor products.
• Ensure critical system security using best in class cloud security solutions.
• Create and update documentation for the operational process, procedures, and environment configurations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience.
• 5-6 years designing, implementing CI/CD solutions, and DevOps related practices.
• 5-6 years of cloud computing experience.
• Version Control: Experience with version control systems such as GitHub, GitLab and code branching principles.
• Strong experience with build and release process and associated tools - building CI and deployment pipelines and hands-on knowledge of applicable tools chain such as Jenkins, CircleCI, TeamCity, Azure DevOps or like build orchestration tools, Artifactory, GitHub, GitLab, SonarCube, Coverity or similar.
• Experience with Terraform to create infrastructure as code.
• Strong experience with Ansible to create configuration as code.
• Strong experience in automation and one of scripting languages such as Python, JavaScript or similar.
• Strong experience with Containerization (Docker, Docker Compose etc.) for container management.
• Experience with Packer for image creation and curation.
• Experience with build management tools such as Nuget, Maven or Gradle.
• Knowledge of cloud architecture and experience with using a broad range of cloud technologies (such as AWS/Azure/GCP and their services EC2, RDS, ELB, EBD, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail).
• Understanding of networking.
• Experience in implementing DevOps best practices with the ability to define operational processes.
• Very familiar with organizing work using Agile principles (story backlog, Scrum, Kanban).
• Experience with agile backlog management tools such as Atlassian Jira or similar.
• Ability to solve problems by considering available information, prioritizing and making timely decisions.
• Familiar with monitoring tooling such as Elastic or Splunk.
• Operating Systems: Linux, Windows.
• Experience with enterprise environment management and virtualization technologies such as VMware or Hyper-V.
• Experience maintaining parallel development environments in support of multi-project development and inter-dependencies.
• Support process improvements, drive efficiency across teams, eliminating redundancy by leveraging software tools and process automation, provide improvement evidence with measurable data and metrics.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills required.
• Must be proactive, self-motivated, and detail oriented.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of both Azure and AWS cloud ecosystems.