Location: Birmingham, AL/ Atlanta, GA/ Charlotte, NC

Duration: 6 months (Possibility of Extension)

Note: Hybrid working style (3x)

Pay Range: $75/hr - $85/hr

Primary Responsibilities:

• Partners with other engineers and information technology staff to orchestrate code builds, quality and security analyses, deployments, and automated testing through CI/CD release candidacy pipelines
• Articulates business needs and translates them into technology solutions
• Models release candidate CI/CD pipelines as a mechanism to communicate the states and steps necessary to determine a release candidate for each application and service
• Designs and develops fully autonomous CI/CD pipelines that facilitate cloud deployments, including automation of all infrastructure, services, and application build and deployment
• Ensures that all parts of the pipeline follow good software engineering practices, including automated tests and infrastructure tests
• Research new technologies that will improve efficiency and effectiveness
• Implements highly scalable CI/CD platforms to support high change volumes and fast feedback
• Completes project work and contributes to the technical direction of various objectives
• Automates operational activities and tasks
• Responds to performance issues identified by alerts and reported incidents related to CI/CD platforms
• Builds tools that reduce errors and improve our overall customer experiences
• Assists in troubleshooting of production issues and ensures pipeline and infrastructure produce clear documentation and metrics, which enable Root Cause Analysis
• Develops and tests – Ansible Playbooks, Terraform Scripts, Packer Scripts, and establishes immutable infrastructure such that patches are an artifact of the past
• Works with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security (InfoSec), Software Delivery, and Quality Assurance to enable the organization to move to the cloud using complete automation
• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience

Requirements:

• High School Diploma or GED and ten (10) years of related post-secondary education and/or experience in Information Security or Information Technology

Preferences:

• Six (6) years of relevant DevSecOps experience
• AWS DevOps certification or Azure DevOps certification
• Experience in building / deploying cloud native applications – OpenShift, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Experience in observing real-time metrics in the pipeline and deployment strategies – Blue/Green, Canary Deployment
• Experience with either AWS or Azure cloud technologies
• Experience with interfacing with secrets management solutions like Hashicorp Vault
• Familiar with implementing Chaos engineering principles in the pipeline to determine weak links and suggest solutions.
• Familiar with testing tools used to facilitate automation and integration of the tools into CI/CD pipelines
• Must be comfortable in developing pipelines as code using YAML specs, Ansible playbooks

Skills and Competencies:

• Excellent communication skills and willing to mentor developers and other team members in the art of DevSecOps
• Excellent knowledge of Cloud infrastructure, networking, services, and cloud architectural patterns; specifically, compute using virtual machines, managed infrastructure, containers, serverless, as well as database services, security services, and application services
• Proficient in the Python programming language
• Understanding of Shift Left principles and facilitation technologies
• Working Knowledge of Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Git, and ServiceNow is a big plus