DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer
6+Month Contract
Extendable Contract position
Remote Position

Client is seeking a DevOps Manager to lead our DevOps team and drive CI/CD and Azure cloud DevOps initiatives. This role involves designing, managing, and maintaining automation and monitoring tools, overseeing observability platforms, and integrating various DevOps tools to ensure operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, management, and maintenance of automation tools on internally hosted infrastructure.
• Collaborate with Agile Product teams to enhance development delivery and identify opportunities.
• Oversee observability setup, including APM, logs, and traces on Datadog for BBW channels (Site, MobileApp, Stores) and services on OpenShift Kubernetes backend.
• Manage Gitlab CI/CD configuration with Azure environments, Artifactory, automation testing tools, Datadog, HashiCorp Vault, Morpheus, and HashiCorp Quay.
• Implement GitOps using ArgoCD, RedHat KeyCloak, and RedHat ServiceMesh for backend services on Azure RedHat OpenShift (ARO).
• Monitor and optimize Azure cloud deployments and application performance, ensuring system integrity.
• Administer tools to support Digital Operations and oversee code deployments and pipeline monitoring.
• Collaborate with IT Security to automate security controls and compliance processes.
• Mentor DevOps engineers, creating practical demonstrations of solutions and presenting them to the team.
• Stay updated with relevant technologies and engage with user groups to ensure the use of best practices.
• Participate in on-call rotations and defect triage to ensure website stability and operational integrity.

Requirements

• 9+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure or DevOps roles, supporting development community activities.
• Proven expertise with public cloud platforms, particularly Azure, including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), API Management, Azure Functions, Ingress, Container Registry, and Azure Load Balancer.
• Strong experience with software process automation using scripting languages (Python, Groovy, Shell, and/or PowerShell).
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipeline tools like Gitlab, Jenkins, Git, Artifactory, and Ansible.
• Experience configuring and managing databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and/or MongoDB.
• Hands-on experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and familiarity with OpenShift.
• Knowledge of build tooling for React.js, Node.js, and Salesforce Commerce Cloud applications.
• Experience with Morpheus Cloud Automation, Terraform, and writing Infrastructure as Code (IAC).
• 5+ years of management experience, leading DevOps or infrastructure teams, with a track record of mentoring engineers and managing team performance.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with third-party digital e-commerce platforms like IBM Sterling OMS, Radial OMS, and Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC).
• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations for mission-critical services.
• Experience with Agile Development methodologies (SCRUM, Extreme Programming).
• Expertise in application performance analysis and monitoring.
• Familiarity with related software development tools such as Jira, Confluence, Artifactory, Npm, Grafana, Prometheus, and SonarQube.
• Strong technical project management and documentation skills.

Metasys Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, veteran or disability status.