DevOps Engineer

---

Job description

What are we looking for in our DevOps Engineer ?

The Information Technology team at Russell Tobin & Associates is supporting a top Health Insurance company that has an opening for DevOps Engineer.

Location: Phoenix, AZ

Duration: 4 months to potential possibility for hire

Pay Range: $50/hr-$60/hr on W2 (DOE)

Duties:

Serves as a DevOps Engineer supporting a dedicated DevOps team. This role will be responsible for applying DevOps best practices and ideas to include testability, repeatability, and automation, and be able to provide skill uplift, knowledge transfer and sharing of DevOps concepts and best practices to various agile team members.

• Maintain container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes
• Educate key people on security and scalability
• Assist with providing continuous monitoring capabilities
• Design, build and maintain the CI/CD infrastructure and tools
• Leverage CI/CD tools to automate testing and deployment
• Develop backend web services
• Administer Docker runtime or similar container platforms
• Administer SQL and NoSQL technologies
• Administer Linux servers supporting applications
• Participate with others in leveraging VMWare
• Troubleshoot complex scenarios
• Identify and escalate situations requiring urgent attention
• Use your understanding of networking and storage technologies related to databases
• Implement infrastructure as code related to tooling
• Work with configuration management systems to include Chef, Puppet, and/or Ansible
• Orchestrate database related changes on a CICD Pipeline

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

1. Required Job Skills

• Configuration Management skills using Chef or Puppet
• Infrastructure automation skills using Terraform or similar
• CICD pipeline creation using Jenkins or similar
• Manage release workflows using XLRelease or similar
• Proficient using PC
• Proficient in spreadsheet, database, flowcharting, and word processing software
• Working knowledge of current software protocols and Internet standards
• Excellent IT troubleshooting skills
• Knowledge of data privacy practices and laws, including HIPAA regulations related to data security
• Willing to work under different technologies and take up new technology responsibilities outside core skills

1. Required Professional Competencies

• Ability to prioritize tasks and work with multiple priorities, sometimes under limited time constraints.
• Perseverance in the face of resistance or setbacks.
• Effective interpersonal skills and ability to maintain positive working relationships with others.
• Proficient Verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
• Working with and managing third parties
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and privacy
• Comfortable with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders
• Ability to work under pressure in a fast paced environment and meet tight deadlines
• Ability to act independently to drive IT goals and change

Required Education

• High School Diploma or GED in the general field of study.

Preferred Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or related field.

Required Work Experience

• 3 years Experience as a DevOps practitioner/engineer
• 2 years Working on or closely with a DevOps team in an agile environment
• 3 years experienced user of DevOps tooling and a clear understanding of DevOps principles

Preferred Work Experience

• 3 years' Experience coaching others in the adoption of DevOps
• 1 year Administrator of DevOps tooling and able to take point on DevOps-related actionable items

Preferred Licenses / Certifications

Any Azure Certification

HIPAA and able to take point on DevOps-related actionable items

Benefits Info

• Russell Tobin offers eligible employee's comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors.

Rate/Salary: $50/hr-$60/hr on W2 (DOE)

<!– job description page –>