DevOps Engineer
Contract
Cincinatti, Ohio
Remote
Our retail partner is looking for a DevOps Engineer to streamline their infrastructure and improve the efficiency of their software development lifecycle. The ideal candidate will implement automation solutions, manage cloud environments, and ensure continuous integration and deployment practices are optimized. They will also collaborate closely with development and operations teams to enhance overall system reliability and scalability.
Job Description:
- The DevOps Engineer is responsible for ensuring operations for infrastructure and application solutions are reliable and sustainable by incorporating automation towards installation and configuration of entire technology stack.
- The engineer will be responsible for all aspects of environment planning including capacity management, monitoring, scalability, auditing, disaster recovery, and interoperability and infrastructure as code.
- Cloud experience (Azure) is required for this role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and successfully implement overall infrastructure leveraging infrastructure as code designed to meet SLA (performance and up-time), DR, and scalability needs required by the solution.
- Responsible for helping to define all DevOps practices and processes to enable a reliable, repeatable, and high-quality release process, to include:
- Configuration management (CM)
- Continuous Integration (CI)
- Continuous Delivery (CD)
- Continuous Testing
- Continuous Logging, Monitoring, Alerting & Feedback
- Continuous Improvement
- Ensure that post-production operational processes / deliverables are well designed and implemented prior to the project moving into the solution support phase.
- Define and create operational procedures, processes, and scripts.
- Follow appropriate change/release management practices.
- Support and maintain infrastructure solutions utilizing required tools and technologies.
- Configure and monitor cloud infrastructure and services as it pertains to the application’s hardware and business processes.
- Facilitate collaboration between development and operations teams throughout the application lifecycle.
- Partner with Corporate Information Security to ensure all security policies and audit inquiries are addressed.
- Working with application teams and developers with complex business solutions.
- Agile team environment that is self-directed and independent working.
- Excellent problem-solving skills to determine root cause and corrective action.
Technology and Tooling:
- Cloud: Azure (Required), GCP (Nice to have)
- Pipelines
- GitHub, GitHub actions
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Logging
- Data Platforms
Scripting:
Good working understanding of:
- Networking (firewalls, security, traffic flow, subnetting)
- Landing Zones
- Resource groups, RBAC
ABOUT EIGHT ELEVEN:
At Eight Eleven, our business is people. Relationships are at the center of what we do. A successful partnership is only as strong as the relationship built. We’re your trusted partner for IT hiring, recruiting and staffing needs. For over 16 years, Eight Eleven has established and maintained relationships that are designed to meet your IT staffing needs. Whether it’s contract, contract-to-hire, or permanent placement work, we customize our search based upon your company's unique initiatives, culture and technologies. With our national team of recruiters placed at 21 major hubs around the nation, Eight Eleven finds the people best suited for your business. When you work with us, we work with you. That’s the Eight Eleven promise. Eight Eleven Group provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, citizenship, disability, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
