DevOps Engineer

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Location: Richmond, VA [Hybrid]
Experience: 10+ Years

Job Summary

Value Technology is seeking a highly skilled DevOps Engineer. The ideal candidate will have strong experience designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, containerization, infrastructure automation, monitoring, and DevSecOps practices. The candidate should possess hands-on expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Ansible, and scripting languages while collaborating closely with development, QA, and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable and scalable applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application deployment.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Manage cloud infrastructure primarily on AWS.
• Deploy, configure, and maintain Kubernetes clusters.
• Build and manage Docker containerized applications.
• Configure and maintain Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Automate deployment processes and release management.
• Monitor production environments and proactively resolve infrastructure issues.
• Configure application monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions.
• Collaborate with software developers to optimize application deployment processes.
• Implement DevSecOps best practices and security automation.
• Perform infrastructure scaling and capacity planning.
• Manage Linux servers and system administration tasks.
• Create reusable automation scripts using Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Configure networking, load balancing, DNS, SSL certificates, and firewalls.
• Manage version control repositories using Git.
• Perform troubleshooting across application, infrastructure, and networking layers.
• Implement backup, disaster recovery, and high availability solutions.
• Optimize cloud resources for performance and cost efficiency.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise security policies and regulatory requirements.
• Support production releases and provide post-deployment monitoring.
• Work with Agile/Scrum teams throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Participate in on-call production support and incident management.
• Document infrastructure architecture, deployment procedures, and operational runbooks.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure Automation.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services.
• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines.
• Expertise in Docker and Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong Linux administration skills.
• Experience with automation and scripting using Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Experience implementing monitoring and logging solutions.
• Knowledge of networking concepts and cloud security.
• Experience supporting production systems in high-availability environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in financial services or banking environments.
• Experience with microservices architecture.
• Knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.
• Familiarity with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd).
• Experience with API gateways and ingress controllers.
• Exposure to serverless computing.
• Experience with container security tools.
• Knowledge of compliance standards such as SOC 2, PCI DSS, or ISO 27001.
• Experience with performance tuning and cloud cost optimization.