DevOps Engineer

Our government client is looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer on a remote 12 months’ renewable contract opportunity in Indianapolis, IN.
Position: DevOps Engineer

Location: Indianapolis, IN.(Locals only)

Job Summary:
Responsibilities:
•           Works closely with development teams to ensure that security gates, build automation and testing are being successfully implemented via the Pipeline.
•           Work with the development team to build, deploy, and maintain software in cloud environments.
•           Ensures that DevOps and DevSecOps best practices are incorporated into the pipeline, including automation, continuous testing, and continuous deployment.
•           Implement monitoring and logging solutions for technology stacks and container orchestration platforms.
•           Implement CI/CD solutions for a variety of web applications.
•           Work with source control technologies and git flow strategy, including their connection to processes/pipelines.
•           Prepare and perform builds in an Agile environment supporting a variety of on-site, private, public and hybrid deployments in support of test and production sites.
•           Maintain knowledge of industry trends and technologies; recommend training topics as necessary.
•           Work with product security to develop and implement security best practices.
•           Automate cloud deployments using IaC (Azure)
•           Provide guidance administrating Containerized Clusters such as Docker Compose, Kubernetes, other managed Kubernetes services.
•           Must be self-motivated with the ability to follow through to solve difficult problems using technical creativity and ingenuity.
•           Work with Amazon Web Services and Azure Products & Services, Relational and NoSQL Databases, Object and Block Storage, Scaling, Load Balancing, DNS, Networking etc.
•           Maintain document and diagram workflows and environments and communicate change both verbally and in writing.
•           Collaborate with teams across the organization to identify DevOps needs and deliver solutions.
•           Enable teams to integrate and deploy code with CI/CD pipelines in a manner that is secure, reliable, and efficient.
•           Create, build, and deploy Pipelines using Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Enterprise.
•           Design, build and evolve our production cloud infrastructure, employing automation and infrastructure-as-code (IaC).
•           Suggest architecture improvements and recommend process improvements.
•           Use your knowledge of Azure to assist engineering in planning feature development. Qualifications:
•           6 years of experience in a lead DevOps role.
•           Expert understanding of modern DevOps best practices and how to implement them using Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Enterprise.
•           Success in having provided technical leadership as a senior member of a DevOps and/or development team.
•           Senior experience with one or more cloud infrastructure providers (preferably Azure).
•           Senior experience building release pipelines (in Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Enterprise).
•           Senior experience automating the provisioning of infrastructure .
•           Production level experience with distributed applications at scale in cloud (/Azure)
•           A senior working understanding of CI and CD tools (Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Enterprise).
•           Senior experience building CI/CD with applications written in .NET and Angular.
•           Senior cloud-based development and deployment experience with Azure ARM Templates
•           Experience with Git and code review tools.
Desirable – nice to have
•           Experience with containerization, Dockers and Kubernetes
•           Senior experience with containerization and scaling containerization infrastructure with Kubernetes.
Required/Desired Skills:

• 6 years of Azure DevOps Build Pipelines (using YAML) Required
• 6 years of 6 years of Azure DevOps Release Pipelines (using YAML) Required
• 6 years of Azure DevOps Git Repos Required
• 6 years of Azure DevOps ARM / Bicep Templates Required
• 6 years of Azure Functions Required
• 6 years of Azure CLI Required
• 6 years of Azure Cloud App Services Required
• 3 years of .NET and Angular Development Background Required
• 2 years of GitHub Enterprise Actions Required
• 3 years of AWS Elastic Beanstalk Nice to have
• 3 years of AWS CDK Nice to have
• 3 years of AWS ECS, EC2, S3, Lambda Nice to have

About Vector:
Vector Consulting, Inc., (Headquartered in Atlanta) is an IT Talent Acquisition Solutions firm committed to delivering results. Since our founding in 1990, we have been partnering with our customers, understanding their business, and developing solutions with a commitment to quality, reliability and value. Our continuing growth has been and continues to be built around successful relationships that are based on our organization's operating philosophy and commitment to ** People, Partnerships, Purpose and Performance - THE VECTOR WAY
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