DevOps Engineer III - Dev SecOps

Job Summary:

The DevOps Engineer III is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining a stable and efficient infrastructure to optimize application delivery across production, test, and development environments throughout the development lifecycle.

Job Duties:

• Builds, deploys, and maintains CI/CD pipelines
• Implements automated infrastructure capabilities like backups, security tools, and monitoring
• Monitors, troubleshoots, maintains, and continuously improves building, packaging, and deployment processes
• Utilizes a consistent DevOps approach to all phases of the process and ensure end-to-end quality
• Works with software development team to develop and provide scalable platforms
• Researches advanced development topics and new technologies to determine if applicable for implementation
• Benchmarks a variety of internally developed and third-party integrated systems for performance under heavy loads
• Designs and maintains operational processes and guidelines for both internal and external development teams
• Devises strategic plan for resolving issues while keeping the firm's systems operational
• Reviews, verifies, and validates the software code developed by other development teams
• Performs routine application maintenance tasks
• Educates Application Services professionals on responsibilities and provides guidance regarding effective resolution of issues
• Facilitates meetings to discuss project requirements
• Acts as the technical lead on larger IT projects
• Serves as the Secondary Support person for after-hours support, as needed
• Escalates critical issues to management and implements strategies for timely resolution
• Leads the follow-up from items stemming out of team meetings
• Formulates basic strategies and develops proposals for meeting Application Support Services goals
• Provides Level IV support for specific applications as needed
• Other duties as required

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• N/A

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Education:

• High School diploma or GED, required
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems, preferred

Experience:

• Four (4) or more years of experience in software development supporting or troubleshooting applications and cloud products, required
• Four (4) or more years of experience designing and automating CI/CD/DevOps Pipelines, preferred
• Four (4) or more years of experience working with Microsoft Azure and Azure Portal, preferred
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform, preferred
• Experience with scripting tools; PowerShell, Graph API, Azure CLI, preferred
• Experience with Monitoring Tools; App Monitoring, App Insights, PowerBI, preferred
• Prior experience serving in a technical lead role on IT projects, preferred
• Advanced experience with software development methodologies, preferred
• Experience with application security monitoring technologies, preferred
• Experience in other development languages, strongly preferred

License/Certifications:

• Certifications in Microsoft AZ-900, AZ-204, AZ-400, preferred

Software:

• Experience with one (1) or more of the following products, preferred:
  
  
  
  • Microsoft Azure Dev Ops or Github
  • Microsoft Azure and Azure Portal
  • Automation tools; Terraform, PowerShell, Wiz, and / or Graph API
  • Application Security Monitoring Tools
  • Microsoft Visual Studio
  • Microsoft SQL Server and/or Azure SQL DB
  • Microsoft SQL Reporting Services and/or Power BI
  • Microsoft SQL Integration Services and/or Azure Logic Apps
  • Microsoft Entity Framework
  
  

Language:

• N/A

Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal and customer relationship skills
• Ability to work in a deadline-driven environment while handling multiple complex projects/tasks simultaneously with a focus on details
• Ability to successfully multi-task while working independently or within a group environment
• Ability to rely on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals
• Ability to work well under pressure while dealing with unexpected problems in a professional manner
• Ability to communicate and interact with all levels of employees and management
• Ability to interact and build relationships and consensus among people
• Advanced knowledge of concepts, practices, and procedures within the software development industry
• Strong information technology architectural and design skills
• Solid project management and leadership skills to effectively act as technical lead on large projects
• Ability to consistently produce clean code and adhere to appropriate documentation standards