Lead DevOps Engineer

Note: It is Contract to hire Role and onsite.

Position : Lead DevOps Engineer

Location : Phoenix ,AZ

Client : State of AZ

Position id : 7893

Contract to Hire Role

Position Description

This is a 6 9-month contract to hire position. All candidates must be eligible to convert to an FTE. The State is unable to sponsor any visas.

RESPONSIBILITIES
-Day-to-day responsibilities are 60% people management/leadership, 40% hands-on technical.
-Lead, coach, and mentor to motivate staff and produce expected results.
-Manage and provide direction in support of business operations.
-Ensure that applications meet business requirements and systems goals, fulfill end-user requirements, and identify and resolve systems issues.
-Review and analyze existing applications' effectiveness and efficiency, and then develop strategies for improving or leveraging these systems.
-Manage assigned projects.
-Research and make recommendations on software products and services in support of procurement and development efforts.
-Evaluate, install, configure, test, deploy, and maintain applications, systems software, products, and/or enhancements to existing applications throughout the enterprise.
-Assist team with day-to-day hands-on technical and operational responsibilities.
-Coordinate feasibility studies for software and system products under consideration for purchase, and give advice based on findings.
-Collaborate with other IT teams, including Information Security, Service Desk, Quality Assurance, internal business areas, and external service providers to ensure a stable, secure, well-performing, and available infrastructure and applications environment.
-Analyze documentation and technical specifications of any new application under deployment or consideration to determine its intended functionality.
-Negotiate contracts with software and service providers.
-Liaise with company's software suppliers for prompt resolution of any problems or emergencies.
-Maintain inventory of company software and systems assets and their corresponding contracts/agreements.
-Develop and communicate training and documentation for end users, hold clinics as necessary, and other user-related activities.
-Monitor, identify, and resolve complex infrastructure and application problems.
-Manage and remediate security vulnerabilities.
-Adhere to Incident, Problem, Configuration and Change Management processes and agreed-upon service levels.
KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE
-Proven experience in overseeing the direction, implementation, and support of software solutions.
-Strong project management skills and/or substantial exposure to project-based work structures.
-Direct, hands-on experience with automated software management tools.
-Strong knowledge of multi-tiered applications, software quality assurance best practices, and methodologies, including automated SDLC pipelines.
-Must have: Experience with AWS Public Cloud Infrastructure including infrastructure as code (CloudFormation, CodeCommit, CodePipeline).

-Extensive experience with administering and maintaining core infrastructure and software applications. The following products are used within ASRS' technology environment. Experience with these specific systems is not required; however, candidates must have experience managing similar environments.
-IBM FileNet

-Kofax (Tungsten Automation)
-Atlassian Jira, Jira Service Management, Confluence
-Fortra GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer (MFT)
-Public Key Infrastructure
-Microsoft Windows Server and client operating systems, Active Directory, Group Policy and other related technologies
-Linux Server operating systems
-Docker Containers and Kubernetes
-SolarWinds Network Monitoring and Alerting product suite
-Technically fluent in scripting languages, including Powershell to automate operational tasks and routines for efficiency and accuracy.
-Working knowledge of network and computer operating systems, including Windows and Linux.
-Excellent understanding of the organization's goals and objectives.
-Knowledge of applicable data security/privacy policies.

Required Skills

Skill Type
Skill Name
Five years of demonstrated, competent people management experience leading technical teams in a medium-large enterprise technology environment is required. Please do not apply if you haven't previously held technology-focused supervisory/management position(s).
Experience with AWS Public Cloud Infrastructure
Kubernetes

Preferred Skills

Skill Type
Skill Name
Jira
IBM FileNet
Kofax
Linux Server operating systems
confluence
Powershell