Job Title: DevOps Engineer
Duration: 12 months
Location: Richardson, TX – Hybrid
Pre-screening Questions

• Describe your experience over the last 6+ months using infrastructure as code for automation?
• Describe your recent experience with Ruby or Go for backend software development?
• Tell me about a time you built a scalable DevOps pipeline?

Experience and Education:

• 6+ Years
• Bachelor in related field or equivalent work experience

Job Description:

• Manage and support multi-cloud solutions: Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Ali Cloud
• Ensuring operational integrity of Global Cyber-Security Office DevSecOps applications and infrastructure
• Tracking, comparing, and reporting SLOs and SLIs against defined SLAs to guarantee reliability and availability.
• Be On-call rotation to ensure uptime and functionality of critical internal customer services 
• Manage and support source control management and best practices using Git, Azure DevOps, and GitHub
• Create and update the Cloud Infrastructure to meet the application needs using Terraform.
• Create Build and Release pipelines for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) using tools like Jenkins, and Azure DevOps.
• Deploying application updates and fixes to production and non-production environments.
• Setting up and managing custom agents in Azure DevOps to meet specific pipeline requirements and ensure efficient execution of CI/CD processes.
• Configure the networking requirements for the application.
• Set up and manage application and infrastructure monitoring using logging systems like DataDog.
• Ensuring that all systems are secure and up to date with the cloud compliance guidelines.
• Implementing and testing disaster recovery strategies to ensure business continuity in the event of a system failure.
• Support bi-weekly Releases.
• Review cloud costs and fix Cloud tagging ongoing basis.
• Maintain CI/CD for any issues, compliance and modernize needs.
• Use and maintain automated vulnerability scanning tools, like Cycode, Sync and Veracode, to detect potential security issues in your code or dependencies.
• Implement and manage secure secrets management systems to protect sensitive information such as API keys and database credentials. Ensure these secrets are not stored in the code using tools like HashiCorp's Vault for managing and securely injecting secrets into applications.

Must Haves

• Advanced experience administering Kubernetes and understanding of manifest management with Helm.
• Advanced experience solutioning with AWS services such as IAM, KMS, EC2, EKS, S3, Route53, CloudFront, ACM, Secrets.
• Expert experience writing and running Terraform and advanced understanding of Infrastructure as Code.
• Advanced of Linux systems administrator experience or equivalent skills.
• Intermediate experience or equivalent skills with DevOps or CICD pipelines (Jenkins, Concourse, etc…)
• Intermediate experience with configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible, SaltStack.
• Advanced experience with automating multiple systems using languages such as Bash, Python and Ruby and Go
• Deep experience with AWS RDS and Aurora databases such as Postgres, MySQL, and MS SQL Server.
• Deep understanding of source control management and practices using Git, and Github.
• Directory services like AD, and LDAP.
• Understanding and experience with backend software application development with Ruby or Go including API development and integrating with third party.
• Experience with or knowledge of Microsoft Azure (or equivalent) infrastructure, including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters, network security groups, application gateways, virtual machines, databases, storage, backups, Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and/or Bicep deployments.

 Nice to Have

• Strong preference for Chef
• Experience with the Microsoft ecosystem including Powershell is a plus

 

About Us: Established in 2004, SPECTRAFORCE® is one of the largest and fastest-growing diversity-owned staffing firms in the US. The growth of our company is a direct result of our global client service delivery model that is powered by our state-of-the-art A.I. proprietary talent acquisition platform, robust ISO 9001:2015/ISO 27001 certified processes, and strong and passionate client engaged teams. We have built our business by providing talent and project-based solutions, including Contingent, Permanent, and Statement of Work (SOW) services to over 140 clients in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, and India. Key industries that we service include Technology, Financial Services, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Telecom, Retail, Utilities and Transportation. SPECTRAFORCE is built on a concept of “human connection,” defined by our branding attitude of NEWJOBPHORIA®, which is the excitement of bringing joy and freedom to the work lifestyle so our people and clients can reach their highest potential. Learn more at: http://www.spectraforce.com
 
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.

Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation. 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $55.00/hr.