Sr. DevOps Kubernetes Engineer
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- New York, New York, United States
- New York, New York, United States
About
Long term contract - 2+ years • 100% remote in the continental US.
Our client is dedicated to serving our nation's military and Veterans. They have the honor to support federal agencies in their efforts to advance the United States health care system and improve the overall health and well-being of all those who serve or have served our country. To support this mission, our client has embarked on a multi-year modernization journey, within which the DevOps Engineer will play a key role: designing, developing, and maintaining the client's automated build and release structure and deployment pipeline. This will span from code compilation and automated testing to deploying releases to multiple environments.
Our client is seeking a talented DevOps Engineer, with strong experience spinning up Kubernetes clusters. You will be joining a team that is currently migrating from on-prem to the cloud and migrating their suites of web applications into Kubernetes clusters in Azure/AKS.
Responsibilities
Setup, install, configure and maintain build infrastructure
Maintain source control branches
Perform periodic builds and deployments to production environment
Work with other IT teams to review pre-release checklists and coordinate activities to be performed prior to, during and post releases by others
Work with other IT teams to perform troubleshooting and resolution of build and deployment issues in sprint and during releases related to deployment targets, databases, certificates, permissions, firewall changes, IIS configurations and any other system and network dependencies
Work with Development teams and participate in troubleshooting high priority application related issues after releases
Configure and maintain application settings and credentials
Perform administration of GitHub including regular maintenance, user management and security
Design and implement policies for managing source code within ADO and GitHub, including branching, merging and tagging policies to support frequent releases, concurrent development, and partial fixes
Create and maintain documentation of the build and release processes
Develop metrics and reporting for build and release tasks
Investigate, evaluate, propose and implement new tools or processes to improve the reliability, stability and efficiency of the build and deployment pipelines
Participating in weekly on-call rotation for triaging production critical issues
Job Qualifications Required
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
At least 2 years of experience working within a DevOps Engineering role
Intermediate knowledge of cloud infrastructure services, specifically with Azure
2+ years of experience with Kubernetes or other containerization technologies (AKS)
2+ years of experience with CI/CD tools and platforms such as Azure DevOps, Argo, and Flux.
Experience supporting 24x7, high availability application environments that include web, application and database servers and load balancing systems.
Basic to intermediate knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server and relational databases
Demonstrated experience working in a fast paced, large scale Agile/Scrum development environment
Equivalent combination of education, experience and/or applicable military experience will be considered
Preferred
Experience with CI using tools such as Azure DevOps, YAML, Task Agent, or Pools
Experience working with Container technologies like Docker, Kubernetes
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Languages
- English
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