Top Skills:

1. AWS (CloudFormation, EC2, ECS, EKS, autoscaling groups, Aurora MySQL databases, DocumentDB, SNS, SES, transit gateways, route tables, etc.) – AWS

2. Ansible and Terraform (design and implementation)

3. Kubernetes (automating application deployment, scaling, management etc.)

4. Development experience with Python, Java etc.

5. Pipelines (Jenkins, or Azure DevOps, or Gitlab, or other CI pipelines)

6. OpenShift, Kong, or other technologies are all a huge pluses

Skills/Experience:

The client is looking to hire a DevOps Engineer to join its consulting team located in Minneapolis, MN, but can sit 100% remote. The ideal candidate will have not just the technical acumen and strong desire to learn new technology platforms, but will also have excellent soft skills. The ideal candidate will be able to appropriately represent the best interests of our clients, make compelling fact-based cases while delivering high grade consulting engagements in the best interests of our clients, and communicate respectfully and appropriately to all levels of client management.

Role Description:

• Design, develop, modify, test and evaluate various Kubernetes and Docker implementations that support system requirements of varying levels for technical and business application projects
• Implement automation tools and frameworks (CI/CD pipelines)
• Describe and deploy enterprise container platforms like OpenShift, Azure Kubernetes Service, Amazon Kubernetes Service, Rancher, and others
• Deliver microservices based architectures for various types of application platforms (for example: Java, .NET)
• Coach and support project team members during systems release preparation and execution
• Orchestrate deployments and improve the existing architecture utilizing various automation tools and strategies
• Collaborate with product owners and architects to define microservices strategy and implementation roadmap
• Translate business requirements into a software design for development of new or modified automated systems
• Follow and ensure adherence to technical and security standards for programming and design techniques
• Improve continuous deployment processes using Jenkins build pipelines and database migrations to strive for zero-downtime deployments
• Evangelize the concepts and implementations of Infrastructure-as-Code and DevOps amongst various organizational silos
• Be responsible for delivering new and ongoing projects, and make sure solutions are delivered on time and within budget
• Be self-motivated and work independently with minimal supervision to learn new and emerging technologies and processes
• Contribute and help with the development of new IP for the organization

Required Experience:

• At least 1 year – Hands-on with Kubernetes and Docker
• At least 1 year – Hands-on development experience with Java or Python, or another programming or scripting language
• At least 1 year – Hands-on with DevOps pipeline tools like Jenkins
• At least 1 year – AWS, Azure or GCP
• Familiarity with Agile development
• Contributing member of DevOps projects and teams
• 1+ years of DevOps/Infrastructure architecture experience
• Hands-on CI/CD, CM, automation, maven, Ansible, OpenShift, Jenkins, Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.
• Strong Networking knowledge
• Source Control
• Virtualization experience
• Monitoring tools
• RESTful, JSON and other APIs

Skills:

Chef, Ansible, API, automation, CICD, CI/CD, erpss, daiss, Jenkins, Automation, Devops, Python, Aws, Cloud, Ansible, Kubernetes, Git, Terraform, Continuous integration

Top Skills Details:

Chef, Ansible, API, automation, CICD, CI/CD, erpss, daiss, Jenkins, Automation

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

Other skills and experience:

• Unix scripting experience
• SDLC or Agile/Waterfall development
• Knowledge of messaging queues and data streaming is helpful
• Strong relationship management and collaboration skills to facilitate effective working relationships with varied stakeholders and team members, including vendors
• Cloud-based solution design and engineering, AWS Stack experience, Azure stack experience
• Strong problem solving skills, with a focus on understanding overall business issues and determining innovative solutions
• Must be self-directed, highly organized and adaptable with the ability to effectively multi-task as needed
• Must be able to embrace change and be ready to disrupt to create positive change using new technologies
• Confident, proactive and self-motivated
• Be a team player
• Experience in generating and presenting written and oral communications with all levels of stakeholders from various cross-functional and support staff to C level executives

Experience Level:

Entry Level 3-4 years experience in Devops

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.