Contract 6+ months.
4 days in Denver Office
MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Dev Ops Lead Engineer will own the ideation, design, development, enhancement and continuous improvement of our Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment CI/CD Pipelines.
Ideation and design – 50% of time
- Evaluate our current CI Pipelines
- Design new solutions, leveraging and implementing AWS functions
- Design, develop and constantly improve existing AWS Environments by enhancing our CloudFormation and Terraform scripts.
- Partner with development team to improve development efficiencies.
- Work with architecture team to ideate and design infrastructure, environment, and CI/CD improvements.
- Gather technical requirements to document features/stories/HLD
Development Work – 50% of time
Enhance existing Entitlements Server Pipelines to integrate automated end to end testing improving our confidence in every deployment
Develop end to end design leveraging AWS resources
Develop micro services in python/java on AWS
Partner with our automation framework team to create CI solutions that improve automated testing
Ideate, design and implement enhanced production monitoring across all of our products
Create new CI/CD Pipelines for new projects
Build system monitoring Dashboards and KPIs
Implement industry and AWS best practices for deployment, monitoring and alerting
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Independent self-starting problem solver with a creative passion to develop DevOps solutions with a variety of tools, strategies and techniques
Design documentation skills.
Comfortable writing and prioritizing Agile Epics, Features and Stories
Leads Feature grooming sessions with leadership and other teams.
A DevOps thought leader that can contribute to the constant improvement of our processes
Experience designing and deploying AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling groups, Cloud Formation
Working knowledge of branching and merging code in GitLab
Strong working knowledge of developing CI/CD Pipelines. We use GitLab Runner Pipelines, and strong working knowledge with Jenkins is very transferable
Working understanding of AWS Virtual Private Clouds and AWS Networking.
Strong documentation design and communication skills
A desire to “code” automated Pipeline and AWS solutions vs. building them one off
Strong working experience of integrating automated end to end testing into CI/CD Pipelines
Knowledge of industry best practices for Dev Ops in a Cloud Environment
Experience working in an Agile environment
Willingness to mentor and advise other engineering team members
A solid understanding and passion for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
3 to 7 years of experience in Dev Ops
Proficient with Docker based container deployments to create shelf environments for dev teams and containerization of environment delivery for releases and managed the docker container in Kubernetes clustering.
Proficient in AWS Cloud Resources, micro services architecture
Experience writing code in python/java, RDB and/or Mongo DB
Experience integrating various tools such as Gitlab, JIRA, Confluence, Webex Teams and/or Slack to create seamless automated information sharing.
Experience managing and deploying Server releases to Production.
Experience supporting and monitoring and developing alerts for Production environments.
