DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

• Contract to Hire (6mo->FTE) • Hybrid (3/2) • West Milwaukee/Brookfield/Waukesha Area

Ascent Ready's client partner in the financial services arena is actively looking to onboard a DevOps engineer to own how software gets built, deployed, and maintained. This is infrastructure work, not application development reporting to the VP of IT Infrastructure and Operations. The DevOps Engineer will sit between development, security, and infrastructure teams, with the main objective of ensuring the technical environments stay stable, available, and iteratively automated.

Scope of Work

• Plan, deploy, and maintain solutions across on-prem and cloud environments
• Build and maintain automated release processes, including blue/green deployments
• Make sure the right security controls are in place on everything you touch
• Set up application metrics and monitoring
• Provide production support
• Document what you build
• Run cross training sessions to raise the automation bar across IT
• Work with development and IT to pressure test requirements before they get built

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years in a highly automated software engineering environment, or 7+ without a technical degree
• 3+ years writing code in an object oriented, functional, or scripting language
• 2+ years running an orchestrated container environment
• 1+ years building CI/CD pipelines
• 1+ years standing up and maintaining web servers such as IIS or NGINX
• 1+ years automating environment deployment with a tool like Terraform
• Experience securing and monitoring a service oriented environment, such as a service mesh
• Experience baking application security into automated solutions
• Comfortable in an iterative delivery process

Preferred Qualifications

• Kubernetes and Docker
• SUSE Enterprise Linux
• Azure DevOps for pipelines