DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

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Experis IT is a top-3 global leader specializing in IT resourcing and managed services. As part of the Manpower Group, we connect skilled IT professionals to organizations in an ever-evolving technology industry. With over 9,000 people currently working in some of the most advanced technologies available, we are a premier company to help you identify your next position.

Experis IT is currently seeking a DevOps Engineer with experience supporting SaaS in an Azure cloud environment. This is a

Contract-to-Hire opportunity located in Morrisville, NC. This is that will be

remote plus on-site position that will require going onsite. Candidates wishing to be considered will need to be local or can relocate to the area.

Responsibilities

• Document, configure, administer, and automate provisioning of infrastructure and application deployments both on-prem (OpenShift) and in the cloud (Azure).


• Track and monitor resource usage and associated costs.


• Automate the monitoring of application performance and service availability.


• Drive technical innovation and efficiency with automation in both the cloud and on-prem VM environments.


• Manage and troubleshoot day-to-day systems administration of Windows/Linux infrastructure.


• Work on projects to increase security, reliability, redundancy, maintainability, and scalability. Participate in operations, monitoring, service recovery, load, and performance testing/tuning.


• Work closely with the development team to configure, document, troubleshoot and improve the supporting infrastructure and services (both cloud on on-prem) leveraged by the application itself as well as the software development lifecycle.


• Create automated solutions for application build, test, scan, deploy, and monitor.


• Assist with production performance, defect, and security investigations as needed.


• Coordinate with IT Operations to deploy and maintain security updates and patching.


• Review results of automated scans and advise Development on areas to remedy.


• Employee must perform all the essential functions/responsibilities with or without accommodation for classification in this position.

Required skills and Experience

• Bachelor Degree in an Information Technology Discipline


• Minimum of 4 years of general DevOps and/or IT System Administration experience. This is to include the following:




• 1+ years of professional experience with DevOps in an Azure-based SaaS environment


• 1+ years of professional experience with Git and one of the common Git server products (Bitbucket, GitHub, etc.)


• 1+ years of professional experience with infrastructure provisioning/configuration management tools. Preferably Terraform but Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc. are also acceptable.




• 4 years of professional experience in a Linux environment


• 2+ years of professional experience with CI/CD

Desired skills and Experience

• Deep understanding of modern web architectures and cloud platforms.


• Good communication and reasoning skills, including the ability to make a strong case for technology choices and processes.


• Experience supporting common open-source application stacks.


• Proficiency in writing scripts for maintenance and automation in a variety of languages.


• Familiarity with Terr grunt a plus.


• Experience with application performance and service availability monitoring.


• Familiarity with JIRA/Confluence or equivalent tools.


• Must be comfortable supporting high volume production systems with strict uptime SLAs.


• Experience with TFS, Jenkins, Artifactory, OpenShift, and Azure Kubernetes Service are all a plus.