DevOps Engineer

Location(s)
Birmingham, Alabama Details Kemper  is one of the nation’s leading specialized insurers. Our success is a direct reflection of the talented and diverse people who make a positive difference in the lives of our customers every day. We believe a high-performing culture, valuable opportunities for personal development and professional challenge, and a healthy work-life balance can be highly motivating and productive.

Kemper’s products and services are making a real difference to our customers, who have unique and evolving needs. By joining our team, you are helping to provide experience to our stakeholders that delivers on our promises.

Kemper has an immediate need for a skilled and motivated Dev Ops Engineer to work from our Birmingham office.

This role works as part of a team responsible for designing, implementing, maintaining, and improving enterprise Dev Ops and platform engineering capabilities across on-premise and AWS cloud environments. The team supports continuous integration and automated release processes, source-code management, artifact management, container platforms, infrastructure automation, security tooling, and the shared platforms used by application development teams.

The focus will be on maintaining secure, reliable, and scalable engineering platforms while improving the efficiency of development, testing, infrastructure provisioning, and product release processes. The Dev Ops Engineer will work in a dynamic, fast-paced agile environment and will partner closely with application, cloud, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to automate repeatable work, troubleshoot platform issues, and continuously improve developer experience.

Responsibilities Ensure quality, reliability, security, and efficiency of Dev Ops platforms and SDLC tooling

Maintain and improve CI/CD processes that support automated software builds, testing, releases, and deployments

Design and automate cloud and hybrid infrastructure, including build and test environments, AWS services, container platforms, and deployment workflows

Provide automation, CI/CD, source control, artifact management, and cloud platform expertise to Application Development teams

Monitor, troubleshoot, and report on the health, availability, capacity, and performance of build, deployment, and shared Dev Ops infrastructure

Support and administer enterprise engineering platforms such as Jenkins, Git Lab, JFrog Artifactory/Xray, Sonar Qube, and AWS-based services

Support Kubernetes/EKS workloads and platform services, including deployment, configuration, access, observability, and troubleshooting

Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code and automation for AWS infrastructure, Linux and Windows systems, and repeatable platform operations

Partner with security and infrastructure teams to implement vulnerability management, secure configuration, access controls, compliance requirements, and hardened operating-system images

Maintain appropriate technical documentation, operational procedures, and project documentation for platform changes, builds, releases, and automation

Qualifications

Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Systems/Technology, or equivalent and/or Dev Ops related work experience (development or infrastructure automation)
Understanding of the Dev Ops principles and patterns in an enterprise organization

Hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud infrastructure

Strong understanding of infrastructure as code (IaC), configuration management, and automation practices

Demonstrated understanding of source-code management processes using Git and enterprise Git platforms

Programming or scripting experience in one or more of the following:
Python, Bash/Power…