Senior DevOps Engineer

Duration: 12 month Contract

Job Description:

• Develop scripts and pipelines required in release processes, managing environments and deployment.
• Resolve and support the resolution of complex operational issues by leveraging advanced expertise in the underlying business applications and associated infrastructure.
• Develop and implement initiatives aimed at enhancing operational excellence through automation and the adoption of appropriate tools and best practices.
• Contribute technical expertise within the scrum teams by supporting the resolution of technical issues and sharing knowledge with team members.
• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps to support continuous integration, testing, and deployment processes.
• Design, develop, and deploy containerized applications to ensure portability, scalability, and efficient resource utilization across environments.
• Deploy and manage Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) solutions to provide a fully managed Kubernetes environment integrated with Azure services.
• Utilize GitHub for version control, collaboration, and code management, supporting efficient workflows.
• Manage the health, scaling, and performance of Kubernetes clusters, including upgrades, patching, and troubleshooting issues.
• Work with internal stakeholders and subject matter experts to meet project goals and best practices.
• Other related activities and deliverables as required.

Required Skills:

• University degree or college diploma in computer science, software development or a related field.
• Minimum of seven (7) years of demonstrated experience in applications development and systems integration.
• Minimum of seven (7) years of demonstrated experience in DevOps and CI/CD expertise: proficiency in DevSecOps, version control, artifact management, and build pipelines.
• Minimum of five (5) years of demonstrated hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure services and solutions.
• Demonstrated experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub, Nexus, Jenkins, Tekton, Argo CD, Azure Container Registry, and Azure DevOps.
• Demonstrated experience with build automation and dependency management tools, such as Maven and Gradle.
• Demonstrated recent experience streamlining processes through automation.
• Demonstrated extensive experience supporting enterprise systems, with a solid understanding of production operations, application resiliency and availability.
• Demonstrated experience deploying and managing Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and/or Red Hat OpenShift.

Desired Skills:

• Demonstrated Knowledge of managing configurations through yaml, overlays and solutions like Kustomize and Helm 
• Demonstrated knowledge of application authentication through certificate management.  
• Demonstrated experience working with tools similar to CyberArk, AppviewX  
• Demonstrated experience working with Message queues such as AMQ and Spring integration platforms  
• Knowledge of Standard Query Language (SQL), Java, Unix scripts, node.js,   
• French would be considered an asset.

About US Tech Solutions:
US Tech Solutions is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. To know more about US Tech Solutions, please visit www.ustechsolutions.com.
 
US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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