DevOps Engineer at Kforce Inc in Houston, Texas

Job Description:

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Kforce has a client that is seeking a DevOps Engineer in Houston, TX.

Responsibilities:

• DevOps Engineer will work with development and support teams to design and implement deployment, provisioning, and integration workflows; Ensure environments are stable, properly configured and secure, and identify areas for improvement


• Build and maintain tools and solutions associated with deployment and our DevOps platform


• Update our processes and design new processes as needed to optimize performance of our CI/CD/CT pipelines


• Partner with internal stakeholders to develop best practices to manage and reduce security risks by developing and integrating global security controls into our CI/CD/CT pipelines


• Prepare environments for development, testing, user acceptance testing, performance, scalability and reliability analysis, and ensure that environments are stable, production-like and available for development and QA teams


• Establish DevOps Engineer team best practices and document DevOps processes, procedures and workflows to maintain consistency


• Work with internal stakeholders across various organizations contributing to the development and management of the organization's incident management and disaster recovery processes


• As a DevOps Engineer, you will support monitoring tools for application and infrastructure stability, reliability and security with automated analysis, problem detection and alert generation


• Actively troubleshoot any issues that arise and work with development teams to expedite fixes

REQUIREMENTS:

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent work experience


• At least 3 years of demonstrated success in related IT profession, including substantial DevOps experience and release management practices for enterprise teams


• Strong experience applying DevOps and CI/CD concepts and building CI/CD pipelines with source control such as GIT and Azure DevOps/TFS Experience with Docker containerization, Kubernetes, ServiceMesh, API Gateway and Proxy Server


• Experience with encryption, SSL/TLS, OpenSSL, key and secret management


• Experience with application and system profiling/monitoring tools and techniques, scaling and optimization techniques


• Experience planning, implementing and maintaining deployment processes for large enterprise multi-tier distributed applications, including experience with IIS, messaging systems and databases


• Experience working/communicating with global teams


• Familiarity with Agile development practices, Scrum/Kanban or other Agile work decomposition and management methodologies


• Strong general IT application and networking knowledge, including load balancing, networking, Microsoft Active Directory, messaging middleware and virtualization technologies such as VMWare vSphere


• Strong knowledge of SQL Server (or other RDBMS) configuration, administration, backups and recovery


• Communicates and collaborates effectively to management, peers and team members

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless
and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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