Cloud DevSecOps Engineer IV

Position: Cloud DevSecOps Engineer IV (Only W2)
Location: Birmingham, Alabama / Charlotte, NC / Atlanta, GA (Hybrid)
Duration: Contract

Job Overview:
The Cloud DevSecOps Engineer IV contributes to the advancement of cloud strategy by developing, communicating, and implementing robust and secure cloud continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. This role collaborates closely with stakeholders to create fully automated pipelines that align with current DevSecOps best practices.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with engineers and IT staff to orchestrate code builds, quality and security analyses, deployments, and automated testing through CI/CD pipelines.
• Translate business needs into technology solutions.
• Model release candidate CI/CD pipelines to communicate states and steps necessary for application and service release candidates.
• Design and develop fully autonomous CI/CD pipelines for cloud deployments, automating infrastructure services and application build and deployment.
• Ensure all pipeline components follow good software engineering practices, including automated tests and infrastructure tests.
• Research new technologies to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
• Implement scalable CI/CD platforms to support high change volumes and fast feedback.
• Complete project work and contribute to the technical direction of various objectives.
• Automate operational activities and tasks.
• Respond to performance issues identified by alerts and reported incidents related to CI/CD platforms.
• Build tools to reduce errors and improve customer experiences.
• Troubleshoot production issues and ensure pipelines and infrastructure produce clear documentation and metrics for Root Cause Analysis.
• Develop and test Ansible Playbooks, Terraform Scripts, and Packer Scripts to establish immutable infrastructure.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, Software Delivery, and Quality Assurance teams to enable cloud automation.
• Act as a resource for colleagues with less experience.

Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED and ten (10) years of related post-secondary education and/or experience in Information Security or Information Technology.

Preferences:

• Six (6) years of relevant DevSecOps experience.
• AWS DevOps certification or Azure DevOps certification.
• Experience in building and deploying cloud-native applications (e.g., OpenShift, Azure Kubernetes Service).
• Experience with real-time metrics in pipelines and deployment strategies (e.g., Blue/Green, Canary Deployment).
• Experience with AWS or Azure cloud technologies.
• Experience interfacing with secrets management solutions like Hashicorp Vault.
• Familiarity with Chaos engineering principles in pipelines to identify weak links and suggest solutions.
• Familiarity with testing tools for automation and integration into CI/CD pipelines.
• Comfortable developing pipelines as code using YAML specs and Ansible Playbooks.

Skills and Competencies:

• Excellent communication skills and ability to mentor developers and team members in DevSecOps practices.
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure, networking services, and architectural patterns, including virtual machines, managed infrastructure, containers, serverless, database services, and security services.
• Proficiency in Python programming language.
• Understanding of Shift Left principles and facilitation technologies.
• Working knowledge of Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Git, and ServiceNow is a plus.

About PTR Global: PTR Global is a leading provider of information technology and workforce solutions. PTR Global has become one of the largest providers in its industry, with over 5000 professionals providing services across the U.S. and Canada. For more information visit www.ptrglobal.com

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Pay Range: $70 - $80

The specific compensation for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. Our full-time consultants have access to benefits including medical, dental, vision and 401K contributions as well as any other PTO, sick leave, and other benefits mandated by appliable state or localities where you reside or work.

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