DevOps Engineer

job summary:

Our West Michigan Client has a long term contract opportunity for a mid level Dev Ops Engineer. This is a remote role working EST hours.

location:
Telecommute

job type:
Contract

salary: $35 – 50 per hour

work hours: 8am to 5pm

education:
Bachelors

responsibilities:

Own release engineering across multiple teams: plan, coordinate and execute deployments that span cross-team dependencies and shared release trains, working directly with product owners, scrum masters, engineers and QA.

Build and continuously improve the automated deployment paths for our Azure platform as a service applications, along with the networking, identity and secrets configuration those deployments depend on.

Migrate pipelines and repos from Azure Dev Ops to Git Hub Actions, and build the templates and patterns that make the migration repeatable for other teams.

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Git Hub Actions for secure, scalable, and repeatable delivery patterns.

Find the friction in how we deliver today and engineer it away, so teams ship faster and more safely than they did last quarter.

Develop scripts and tooling (Power Shell, Python, Bash) to replace manual steps and remove toil.

Create templates and automation to enable developer self-service for repos, pipelines, and containers.

Enable agile teams to run their own delivery: get them set up, unblock them, and hand capability back to them rather than absorbing the work.

Troubleshoot build and deployment issues across development teams.

Support releases up to 2 to 3 nights per week.

Contribute to documentation and guardrails that improve efficiency, security, and reliability.

qualifications:

Required:

2 to 4 years of experience in Dev Ops, release engineering or cloud engineering roles with strong software engineering fundamentals.

A genuine engineering mindset. We are looking for people who automate and build, not people who operate a console.

Azure platform as a service expertise, including function apps, App Service, networking and Key Vault.

Deep Git Hub Actions experience, plus Azure Dev Ops Pipelines.

Release engineering experience coordinating deployments across teams with shared dependencies.

Experience running infrastructure, .NET and Maven deployments in production.

Strong scripting skills (Power Shell, Python, Bash).

Well versed in building, running, and debugging apps in C#/.NET, Java, Node.js, Type Script, etc.

Solid understanding of CI/CD principles and agile delivery practices.

Willingness to support night releases up to 2 to 3 nights per week.

Excellent collaboration and troubleshooting skills, and comfort moving between teams with different stacks.

Preferred:

Kubernetes and Git Ops (Argo CD preferred), including Canary and Blue/Green deployment strategies.

Exposure to Google Cloud Platform.

Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, YAML).

SAFe agile environment experience.

Kafka, GraphQL, Temporal, Launch Darkly, Sonar Qube, Backstage, and mobile app release experience.

skills:

.NET,Kafka,Maven,Azure Dev Ops Pipelines,Bash,C#,cloud engineering,CI/CD,automated deployment,deployment strategies,Dev Ops,Git Hub Actions,function apps,GraphQL,Java,Key Vault,Kubernetes,Azure platform,Azure Dev Ops,mobile app,Node.js,Argo CD,Python,scripting skills,debugging,Sonar Qube,Terraform,Type Script,Power Shell,YAML,coordinate,Troubleshoot,troubleshooting skills,reliability,automation,automate,infrastructure,software engineering fundamentals,release engineering,security,Migrate

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