Saxon Global
DevOps Engineer
Saxon Global, Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35275
The Cloud DevOps Engineer will play a pivotal role in advancing our cloud strategy. The primary focus of this role will include developing, communicating and implementing cloud Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines which are robust and secure. This role will work closely with all stakeholders to create fully automated pipelines which support current DevOps best practices.
Partners with other developers and other information technology staff to oversee code releasesArticulates business needs and translate them into technology solutionsDesigns and develops fully autonomous ci/cd pipelines which facilitate cloud deployments which includes automation of all infrastructure, services and application build and deploymentEnsures that all parts of the pipeline follow good software engineering practices to include unit tests and infrastructure testsResearches new technologies that will improve efficiency and effectivenessImplements highly scalable applicationsMaintains health of cloud-based production environments through monitoring and typical daily administration dutiesAutomates operational activities and tasksResponds to performance issues identified by alerts and reported incidentsBuilds tools which reduce errors and improve our overall customer experiencesAssists in troubleshooting of production issues and ensure pipeline and infrastructure produces clear documentation and metrics which enables Root Cause AnalysisDevelops and tests - Ansible Playbooks, Terraform Scripts, Packer Scripts and establish immutable infrastructure such that patches are an artifact of the pastWorks with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security (InfoSec), Application Development to enable the organization to move to the cloud using complete automation
RequirementsBachelor's degree in Computer Science or High school diploma or GED and seven (7) of DevOps experienceThree (3) years experience as a DevOps practitionerExperience with either AWS or Azure cloud technologiesWorking Knowledge of Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Git, ServiceNow a big plusFamiliar with implementing Chaos engineering principles in the pipeline in order to determine weak links and suggest solutions.Proficient in python programming languageExcellent knowledge of Cloud Infrastructure - Compute - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Virtual Machines (VM's), SQL - Amazon Relational Database Service (AWS RDS) or Azure SQL, Document Data Store (DynamoDb,Mongo), Security Groups, SubnetsExperience 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 DeploymentMust be comfortable in developing pipelines as code using yaml specs, ansible playbooksExperience with interfacing with secrets management solutions like Hashicorp VaultExcellent communication skills and willing to mentor developers and other team members in the art of DevOps?Experience with either AWS or Azure cloud technologies
PreferencesPreferred AWS DevOps certification or Azure DevOps certification
Required Skills : Working on Mobile Banking Applications Strong Background in Various AWS Services Experience in Migration from On-Prem to AWS Container Background- Either OpenShift/Docker/ or KubernetesBasic Qualification :Additional Skills :Background Check :YesDrug Screen :YesNotes :Selling points for candidate :Project Verification Info :Candidate must be your W2 Employee :NoExclusive to Apex :NoFace to face interview required :NoCandidate must be local :NoCandidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship :YesInterview times set : :NoType of project :Development/EngineeringMaster Job Title :DevOps: ApplicationsBranch Code :Birmingham
Partners with other developers and other information technology staff to oversee code releasesArticulates business needs and translate them into technology solutionsDesigns and develops fully autonomous ci/cd pipelines which facilitate cloud deployments which includes automation of all infrastructure, services and application build and deploymentEnsures that all parts of the pipeline follow good software engineering practices to include unit tests and infrastructure testsResearches new technologies that will improve efficiency and effectivenessImplements highly scalable applicationsMaintains health of cloud-based production environments through monitoring and typical daily administration dutiesAutomates operational activities and tasksResponds to performance issues identified by alerts and reported incidentsBuilds tools which reduce errors and improve our overall customer experiencesAssists in troubleshooting of production issues and ensure pipeline and infrastructure produces clear documentation and metrics which enables Root Cause AnalysisDevelops and tests - Ansible Playbooks, Terraform Scripts, Packer Scripts and establish immutable infrastructure such that patches are an artifact of the pastWorks with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security (InfoSec), Application Development to enable the organization to move to the cloud using complete automation
RequirementsBachelor's degree in Computer Science or High school diploma or GED and seven (7) of DevOps experienceThree (3) years experience as a DevOps practitionerExperience with either AWS or Azure cloud technologiesWorking Knowledge of Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Git, ServiceNow a big plusFamiliar with implementing Chaos engineering principles in the pipeline in order to determine weak links and suggest solutions.Proficient in python programming languageExcellent knowledge of Cloud Infrastructure - Compute - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Virtual Machines (VM's), SQL - Amazon Relational Database Service (AWS RDS) or Azure SQL, Document Data Store (DynamoDb,Mongo), Security Groups, SubnetsExperience 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 DeploymentMust be comfortable in developing pipelines as code using yaml specs, ansible playbooksExperience with interfacing with secrets management solutions like Hashicorp VaultExcellent communication skills and willing to mentor developers and other team members in the art of DevOps?Experience with either AWS or Azure cloud technologies
PreferencesPreferred AWS DevOps certification or Azure DevOps certification
Required Skills : Working on Mobile Banking Applications Strong Background in Various AWS Services Experience in Migration from On-Prem to AWS Container Background- Either OpenShift/Docker/ or KubernetesBasic Qualification :Additional Skills :Background Check :YesDrug Screen :YesNotes :Selling points for candidate :Project Verification Info :Candidate must be your W2 Employee :NoExclusive to Apex :NoFace to face interview required :NoCandidate must be local :NoCandidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship :YesInterview times set : :NoType of project :Development/EngineeringMaster Job Title :DevOps: ApplicationsBranch Code :Birmingham