DevOps Automation Engineer

Simple Technology Solutions (STS) is looking for a DevOps Automation Engineer to add to our team. 

Quick overview:

• US Citizenship 
• Bachelors Degree
• 5+ years of position related experience
• AWS/Azure Certification 

The Role

STS’s DevOps Automation Engineer provides expertise to partner with our clients to plan, analyze, design, test, and deploy infrastructure expressed as code.  This role can span multiple areas of expertise as they work with different client teams on different projects.  You will work closely with the Dev and DevOps teams to understand architecture and automate the infrastructure, participate in the design and development of new or improvement of existing infrastructure automation (“infrastructure as code”) using Terraform , Ansible, Python, etc, striving for continuous improvement and automation of infrastructure.

• Work with the developers to design and build CI/CD pipelines
• Build tools and services for self-service portals
• Automate process wherever possible.
  Build tools and services for understanding infrastructure cost, Security , observability.
  Mentor and guide team members by defining best practice and review code.
• Support DevOps operations by integrating developed IaC into CI/CD pipeline builds
• Develop documentation utilizing standardized templates including: Installation and Configuration Guides, design and engineering plans.
• Write other non-templated documentation as needed to support tasks like: process and procedures documents for operational support, lessons learned, diagrams, systems administration guidelines, systems set-up documentation, hardware integration test plans and results.
• Provide systems engineering requirements to ensure that technical and operational requirements are achievable and being satisfied with the proposed technologies.
• Provide support in validating and verifying requirements, requirements analysis and decomposition, requirements test/verification/validation, and reporting.
• Manage, maintain, and enhance current and future baselines. This effort will encompass hands on technical engineering efforts required to define, develop, test and implement software baselines.

Experience and Education: 

Required

• US Citizenship
• 5+ years of hands on experience
• Extensive knowledge of cloud services, methodologies, best practices, and tools
• Demonstrated success developing/implementing IaC using python, Terraforms, Gitlab, Ansible in AWS and Azure
• Knowledge of at least one modern services framework (K8S, SDWAN, Serverless, etc)
• Generic DevOps Skill Baseline Coding
• Scripting/ Programing language/ Configuration Management/ Container
• VCS (Git Based VSC): family with commit, branch, merge, review process - understand pre/post hook -design/implement branching strategy (e.g., git flow, GitHub flow) - design/implement group development collaboration process (access control, code review/approval, integration with other CI tools)
• Artifact Repository: familiar with one of the popular antifactory management tools
• CI/CD tools: implement CI services (VCS, antifactory repo, build, release)
• Operating System familiar with Linux or Windows OS
• Identity Access Management (IAM), Security, Networking
• Compute (VM, Container platform, Function)
• Implement server less solution for operational purpose
• Data storage, Database, configuration management
• AWS Certifications and Azure Certifications

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