Senior DevOps Engineer

$150-180k

Hybrid, must be located in Kansas City

*No Sponsorship or H1Bs

Position Description

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for working within an Agile framework while implementing automated continuous delivery solutions. You will collaboration between development, IT Operations, and Quality Assurance to ensure smooth deployments to the various testing and production environments. You will help identify and implement automation across multiple applications. You will mentor your team in DevOps best practice, and proper methods for automation.

Essential Job Functions

Automate and maintain the software build process to support continuous integration through the development life cycle
Maintain deployment automation to ensure proper application deployment and configuration in multiple environments
Work with DBA staff to streamline deployment of database schemas
Automate and manage software monitoring strategies
Monitor site stability and performance and troubleshoot site issues
Collaborate with development teams and operations to bring new features and services into production
Provide support to development teams for development and deployment tools
Manage test automation suites for functional, regression, and performance testing
Work with Quality Assurance to ensure test cases are kept up to date with software releases
Work with IT Operations staff to upgrade and build out new environments that conform to software requirements
Identify, recommend, and implement best practice for implementation of software build and deployment to support a Kanban system of “flow based” throughput
Evaluate, recommend, and implement continuous integration/continuous delivery into cloud based solutions

Experience in the following areas is required:

Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or similar field of study required.
Experience in 24x7 production operations, preferably supporting a highly available environment
5+ years experience scripting in PowerShell, release automation, application administration, application configuration, and debugging
High level of familiarity and experience using Configuration Management tools like Powershell DSC, Puppet, Chef, etc.
High level knowledge of cloud technology and cloud deployment strategies (e.g., AWS, Azure)
High level experience using containerization tools like Kubernetes and Docker
High level knowledge of automated post-deployment testing tools
High level knowledge of IIS or similar web server technology
High level knowledge of SQL Server deployment using SSDT
High level knowledge of Octopus Deploy or Azure DevOps Pipelines (TFS Build, VSTS)
Ability to operate in an agile and dynamic environment
Understanding of networking and load balancing
Understanding of virtual machine technology
Understanding of Active Directory

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