DevOps Engineer

Company: Lantana Consulting Group provides services and software for standards-based health information exchange. We have built our expertise through nearly two decades of development and deployment of technical specifications and interoperability solutions. As a distributed company with no single brick-and-mortar office, Lantana can hire the best available talent and offer a flexible work schedule. We are a rapidly growing Employee-Owned organization who takes pride in improving public health, quality of care, and research.

Primary purpose: The Senior DevOps Engineer will work closely with software developers, system administrators, and other IT professionals to build and maintain the infrastructure that supports our software development and delivery processes.

A successful candidate will:

• Play a lead role in developing a best practices-based DevOps culture; with the DevOps team, develop and promote best practices for designing and maintaining containerized applications in a Cloud environment (Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Container Services).
• Design, build, and maintain the infrastructure that supports our software development and delivery processes, including servers, networks, databases, and storage systems.
• Be well versed in Cloud-native security practices, including identity and access management, securing application secrets, and implementing compliance policies.
• Liaise with development teams across business units to elevate best practices and collaborate on new solutions that address identified opportunities.
• Manage the Azure Cloud environment: build, maintain, and monitor the health of the environment; and help developers release and deploy software into the environment.
• Build, operate, and advocate for DevOps solutions and tooling.
• Develop and maintain scripts and automation tools to streamline processes and improve efficiency; automate day-to-day tasks via scripts, built-in Azure features, or third-party tools.
• Collaborate with software developers and QA engineers to ensure the availability, scalability, and security of our applications and services.

• Bachelors degree in Engineering or related field
• A minimum of 12 years of relevant work experience and a minimum of 5 years of experience with the required skills described below
• Active certifications in Microsoft Azure Fundamentals, Microsoft Azure Administrator, and Docker Certified Associate (DCA)
• Understanding of the DevOps lifecycle, and experience with DevOps methodologies and tools (Azure DevOps, PowerShell, Bash)
• Hands-on experience administering a Docker/Kubernetes ContainerApps infrastructure in Microsoft Azure (or equivalent Cloud provider)
• Extensive experience in Terraform and Ansible
• Extensive experience with Linux administration, including shell scripting, system configuration, and package management
• Experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes, architectural patterns, and development frameworks
• Proficiency with deploy patterns for .NET, Python, Java, NodeJS, and Ruby
• Extensive experience with source Code Repository systems (Git, Azure repos, SVN)
• Experience with TLS/SSL, mTLS, and other encryption-based authentication/authorization
• Experience building software using.NET, NodeJS, Java, and TypeScript technologies
• Experience with aggregation services such as Loki, Grafana, Prometheus, and Stack
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; problem-solving, troubleshooting, and analytics skills; and time-management skills
• Extensive experience with package managers (NuGet, npm, Maven, Chocolatey, Homebrew)
• Ability to design, engineer, and build the complete infrastructure from scratch from a blank Azure Subscription, then deploy a brand-new application from the development team
• Understanding of budget constraints and ability to design infrastructure with cost/budget in mind
• Ability to complete and maintain a Position of Public Trust Level 5 background investigation

Preferred Qualifications:

• DevOps-specific certification, preferably from Microsoft
• Experience with Microsoft Windows and Linux servers

Additional Job Information:

• This position is 100% work-from-home/remote apart from the annual company meeting, held as conditions allow. 
• Lantana is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants for current openings will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, veteran status or on the basis of disability.  
• For this position, we are not accepting applicants outside of the United States. 
• Titles are subject to change when aligned with the internal structure.