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Title: Cloud/DevOps Engineer (Only W2 Position, No C2C, No Referral)
Duration: 6+ Months
Location: Sacramento, CA
Job Description:
The consultant will evaluate on-prem applications that the ARTS team support and recommend upgrades as well as improvements to the application CI/CD pipelines to ensure adherence to the most recent Platform Engineering guidelines and standards. The consultant will also provide expertise in creating technical documentation and provide knowledge transfer to the Application Release, Testing, and Scheduling team. The consultant will collaborate with other team members on projects of a complex nature or broad scope. The consultant will submit to the contract manager a written weekly and monthly status report as part of this agreement. Consultant responsibilities also include ensuring that all work performed under this agreement will comply with Client s Information Technology Services Branch (ITSB) policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines.
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.