Senior DevOps Engineer - REMOTE

This job was posted by https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov : For more information, please see: https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov/jobs/12361112 The Senior DevOps Engineer will play a critical role in driving the automation, monitoring, and optimization of cloud infrastructure and application deployment processes. This individual will collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to design, implement, and maintain robust, scalable, and secure solutions across AWS, Azure, or hybrid environments. The role involves leading the implementation of CI/CD pipelines, managing container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker), and utilizing infrastructure-as-code (IAC) tools like Terraform and Ansible. The Senior DevOps Engineer will also be responsible for performance tuning, ensuring high availability, and enforcing security best practices while supporting continuous improvement efforts for development workflows.

Design and operate container platforms and Cloud Services using Identity, Storage, Compute, Automation, Disaster Recovery, and Networking features
Deliver scalable, fast, efficient, and high-quality systems that help improve the Company\'s software ecosystem.
Implement and forecast enhancements to network and systems development methodology based on changes in development tools, industry best practices and systems development life cycles.
Manage and improve a large-scale cloud-based server architecture
Enforce network, systems development and deployment standards.
Guides customers migrating applications to containers
Work and continuously improve the DevOps pipeline and tooling to provide active management of the continuous integration/continuous deployment processes.
Analyze, design, build and implement end-to-end solution delivery and support detailed monitoring across the infrastructure platform including operational telemetry.
Create automated orchestration and deployment solutions usingAnsible, Jenkins, Terraform, GitHub Actions, etc.
Write scripts and automation using Python, Bash, PowerShell.
Assists in fixing and redesigning major infrastructure fundamental services
Partner with other software engineers to cooperatively deliver user stories.
Solve highly complex technical problems using industry best practices
Use the test-driven development methodology to realize technical solutions
Create documentation to support external and internal customers
Designing, building and implementing integrations
Maintain supplier/vendor relationships as needed
Contribute to the design and delivery of components for internal/external customers
Provide rapid response and issue resolution to the business teams for production issues
Collaborates with business units and provides technical expertise
Define and drive architectural enhancements into system to mitigate potential failure points
Provide impact assessment and mitigation plans for changes going into the production environment
Investigates root-cause of sever and systemic outages, identify corrective actions
Establishes performance baseline, capacity thresholds, correlate events and define monitoring/alerting criteria.
Provide technical coaching and direction to more junior DevOps Engineers

EDUCATION

Bachelor\'s degree in computer science or a related field.
Relevant combination of education and experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
Continuous learning, as defined by the Company\'s learning philosophy, is required.
Certification or progress toward certification, is highly preferred and encouraged.

EXPERIENCE

7 years of progressively more responsible experience in an Information Technology environment with demonstrated knowledge which provides the necessary skills, knowledge, and abilities.
2 years of significant automation/integration experience required.
Experience working in an agile team with focus on continues integration and automated testing.
Experience in administration of web servers and web application servers.
Experience in the insurance industry preferred.

QUALIFICATIONS

Advanced knowledge of configuration management systems and deployment tools.

Deep knowledge of how IT operations are managed.

Strong knowledge of creating automated production systems with languages like Python, etc.

Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.

Knowledge of setup, configuration and administration of various Linux operating systems and their components

Using tools like Azure DevOps/VSTS, validate requirements, source code branches, deploy, and troubleshoot deployments of code and technologies in stage and production environments.

Strong knowledge of deploying and managing infrastructure and application on public clouds

Ability to troubleshoot and work through complex issues.

Ability to adapt to changing environments.

Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to influence.

Knowledge management of source cod