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Job Title: Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer (Contract) - Job# 3916 Location: Remote Job Description: We are looking for a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer to join our client. The selected candidate will play a critical role in establishing and maturing cloud strategy across the organization's global growth. As a Cloud DevOps Engineer the selected candidate will contribute to business process improvements of IT policies, procedures, tools, security controls and infrastructure. Responsibilities: • Design and manage scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure and automation tooling for routine operation tasks • Participate in team activities such as peer code reviews, design collaboration efforts and rotating on-call process • Use automation, configuration management and deployment tools to provide cloud-based solutions • Work with solution architects and partners to confirm developed solutions align with existing standards, meet security controls and meet cloud computing best practices • Develop tooling and associated processes to improve automation, efficiency, consistency and adherence to security and audit requirements and controls • Manage implementation and the ongoing operation of cloud services following approved designs, adherence to patterns, security requirements and certify all logging and monitoring are active for security and compliance • Investigate and monitor current-state cloud usage, solutions in use, risks, gaps, and limitations and recommend solutions, optimizations, and remediation • Maintain comprehensive and systematic configuration, lifecycle, and security management of servers • Ensure cloud services and toolsets are deployed with best practices and are fully documented Required • 10+ years of experience in IT Infrastructure across-platform areas, with implementing and maintaining expertise • 5+ years of experience building, deploying, and managing public cloud IaaS and PaaS services • Experience building an automated cloud infrastructure across Prod and Non-Prod environments • Scripting and automation of builds, workflows, tasks, and other integration aspects • Linux and Microsoft Windows server administration • Kubernetes and related technologies for virtualization • Azure DevOps, Nexus Repository System, and Gnu Make for setting up CI/CD pipelines. • Azure cloud computing services or similar environments. • Web services, microservices APIs, and related software architecture concepts • Configuration management, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) toolsets including (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, and Chief) Desired: • Experience with GitHub, Python, and Terraform • Experience deploying cloud technologies on Azure IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS • Experience in Agile methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps culture principles and practices • Experience with deploying Docker containers into a cloud environment • Experience with writing PowerShell scripts • Familiarity with operating and maintaining cloud solutions to address industry regulations including PCI, SOX, HIPAA, and GDPR • Azure DevOps Engineer Certification

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