CloudDev Ops Engineer

Roles/Responsibilities:

Deliverable 1: Solution Architecture Development and Test Support

• Evaluate existing applications and provide roadmap for architectural upgrades and enhancements.
• Evaluate unit tests and collaborate with the Regression Automation team to ensure adequate testing suites.
  Provide input into design alternatives and provide alternative solutions based on the requirements and performance of the applications.

Deliverable 2 : Dev Ops Discovery and Assessment

• Provide a thorough assessment of the existing CI/CD infrastructure monitoring security and compliance and identify bottlenecks risks and technical debt.
• Provide a gap analysis between current state vs. industry standard.

Deliverable 3: Roadmap & Strategy

• Prioritized list of improvements (short medium long term).
• Recommend upgrades and refactoring based on new technologies
• Identify automation opportunities.
• Security and compliance upgrade plan.

Deliverable 4: Implementation of Approved Changes

• CI/CD Pipeline Enhancements such as automated build test and deployment pipelines.
• Monitoring and Logging Improvements to observability stack
• Implementation of secrets management vulnerability scanning and access controls.
• For cloud applications optimize scaling policies cost optimizations and backup/recovery improvements.

Deliverable 5: Knowledge Transfer

• On an ongoing basis through the end of the contract all work products and deliverables (project status reports business process triage incident reports with resolution meeting minutes test cases test outcomes) have to be discussed with the contract manager to ensure that all the information is documented and placed in a file share.
• The contract manager will schedule knowledge transfer sessions at regular intervals to ensure that all of the work production details have been documented and the knowledge has been transferred to the state personnel.

Mandatory Skills:

1. Minimum of 10 years of expert-level experience as a DevOps Architect and System Integrator with a proven track record of implementing solutions using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products.
2. At least 10 years of experience serving as a Solution Architect for complex enterprise-scale applications demonstrating the ability to design integrate and optimize large systems
3. A minimum of 5 years of experience in the infrastructure and architecture of public pension systems including system integration scalability performance optimization and modernization of legacy platforms.
4. 5 years of experience in developing technical documentation (standards best practices procedures) and delivering training or knowledge transfer sessions to team members.
5. A minimum of 5 years of experience supporting applications on cloud platforms specifically Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure with expertise in deployment monitoring and operational support.

Desirable Skills: N/A