Job Specifications
DevOps Engineer | Direct Hire | Hybrid x2 day on-site | Charlotte, NC
Optomi, in partnership with a leading insurance organization, is seeking an accomplished Senior DevOps Engineer to join their team. This role offers the opportunity to leverage cloud technologies to accelerate value delivery to customers and drive innovation across the organization. The Senior DevOps Engineer will play a critical role in shaping and enhancing development practices by defining and implementing best practices, patterns, and automation strategies. This individual will lead efforts to design, improve, and sustain continuous integration and delivery pipelines while providing hands-on technical oversight to ensure projects align with organizational strategy, architecture, and methodologies. Acting as both a technical leader and trusted advisor, the Senior DevOps Engineer will bring thought leadership in modernization, technology advancement, and application lifecycle management, while also providing expert consulting, mentorship, and guidance to organizational leaders and development teams.
What the right candidate will enjoy!
Direct Hire full-time opportunity
Flexible hybrid schedule
Acting as a leader in modernization, technology advancement, and application lifecycle management
Driving efficient development practices and influencing best practices and patterns across teams
Experience of the right candidate:
Over 7 years of experience in applications development
More than 5 years of experience designing DevOps pipelines using tools and technologies including Azure DevOps, SonarQube, and YAML
In-depth knowledge of Azure services including but not limited to Azure Compute, Azure Storage, Azure Networking, Azure App Service, Logic Apps, VMSS, and Azure Security
Proficiency in Azure DevOps and building CI/CD pipelines, including Azure environment provisioning tasks
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, Terraform, Puppet, or Ansible
Experience with scripting languages such as Bicep, PowerShell, Bash, or Python
Demonstrated experience in cloud cost optimization, governance, and implementing FinOps practices
Strong leadership and influencing skills with the ability to drive change and foster a DevOps culture across teams
Experience designing and implementing disaster recovery strategies and high-availability architectures in cloud environments
Self-starter who is capable of working independently and making decisions when necessary/as applicable
Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication and the ability to communicate with audiences at varying technical levels
Preferred: Experience working in an Agile environment, preferably SAFe
Preferred: Azure certifications such as Azure Administrator Associate, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
Preferred: Experience in Application Security / DevSecOps roles
Responsibilities of the right candidate:
Design and oversee the implementation of cloud-based architecture, networking, and containerization, utilizing Infrastructure-as-Code for automation and patterns
Lead the creation and deployment of CI/CD and other automation solutions, focusing on design patterns that emphasize reuse, scalability, performance, availability, and security
Develop and enhance process flows, release pipeline documentation, mockups, and other materials to convey technical details and their alignment with desired outcomes
Conduct technical evaluations of DevOps solutions, understand existing industry options, and design necessary custom system integrations
Serve as a strategic thinker, thought leader, internal consultant, advocate, mentor, and change agent for DevOps architecture within development teams
Measure and demonstrate the benefits and business value of DevOps improvements
Present innovative and complex solutions and ideas to participants at all levels, working both as a leader and an individual contributor
Identify customer, business, and technology needs through relationship building and communication with key stakeholders
Identify gaps and propose modernization opportunities that involve both process and technical/automation aspects of the SDLC
Debug and troubleshoot issues with new and existing CI/CD pipelines
About the Company
Established in 2012, Optomi is committed to providing superior IT Talent Services via contract, contract-to-hire, and team augmentation models. Our delivery teams are aligned by competencies focused on 7 key areas in technology: Business Optimization, Software Engineering, Cloud & Infrastructure, Cyber Security, Data Modernization, ServiceNow, and Emerging Technologies. Our skillset-focused approach allows our recruiting teams to become experts within their space and streamline the hiring process. We save you time and money ...
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