F2F Interview - Lead DevOps Engineer – Chicago, IL 5x a week onsite - Contract

[Mohammed Humair]

Title: Lead DevOps Engineer

Location: 230 S LaSalle Chicago, IL 5x a week onsite + onsite interviews

Duration: 12+ month contract

Interview Mode: Onsite

 

Position Intel: Enhancing Automation and Efficiency: The Sr DevOps Engineer will significantly improve the bank's software development lifecycle by implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines, automating infrastructure provisioning, and ensuring seamless integration and deployment, thereby enhancing overall efficiency, and reducing time-to-market for new features and services.

 

 Description:

• Set up CI/CD pipelines to support automated deployment of resources to Cloud environments, all at medium to high level of complexity
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment.
• Implement security best practices and ensure compliance.
• Proactively identifies system and process risks and recommend/implement process improvements
• Develop, implement,and support test automation for continuous integration and continuous deployment.
• Identify and develop metrics and dashboards to monitor adoption and maturity of DevSecOps practice for the Bank.
• Expertise in conterization (Docker and Podman) and orchestration via AWS Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS).
• Develop, manage and mature the Bank’s software development life-cycle (SDLC) ensuring alignment with Agile, DevSecOps, and platform standards.
• Embed “shift-left” security practices leveraging tools like Checkmarx, SonarQube, PrismaCloud.
• Work collaboratively with architecture, security and delivery teams to estimate, design, code, deploy and support working software / technology components.
• Work with development and support teams to design improved deployment, provisioning and integration workflows, ensure environments stability and identify areas and plans for improvement.

 Skills:

• 7+ years of demonstrable software engineering and DevOps experience
• 7+ years working in SCRUM/Agile software development environment
• Experience deploying and administering Continuous integration tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, TeamCity, Octopus or Bamboo
• Expertise with Infrastructure cloud tools such as Terraform, Docker, Podman, Helm etc.
• Experience administering and integrating SAST tools (Checkmarx) and code quality tools (SonarQube)
• Expertise with integrating automated testing solutions for unit, system, integration, and performance testing within CI/CD
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience. Computer Science or related field preferred.
• Strong cloud engineering experience primarily with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Expertise in working with Terraform, Ansible, and/or Chocolaty for infrastructure automation and configuration
• Expertise with containerization via Docker and Podman with container orchestration leveraging Amazon EKS
• Expertise with GitHub Co-pilot configuration and administration
• Expertise with programming languages such as Python, Powershell, and Bash is a must
• Expertise with Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools such as Datadog and Solarwinds.
• Expertise with project management and workflow tools and concepts such, Agile, Scrum/Kanban, etc.
• Proficiency in cross-platform scripting language and build tools (Python, Artifactory, MS Build, NuGet)
• Proficiency in OOP software development using C# or similar languages
• Ability to define scalable and secure CI/CD pipelines
• Deep understanding of containerization strategies using Docker and Podman
• Experience with pair programming using GitHub Copilot
• Strong communication/presentation skills and ability to build and explain standards, processes, and cloud architecture with team and management 

 

Mohammed Humair || Senior Recruiter

Email: hum...@aptivacorp.com

Web: https://www.aptivacorp.com/

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mohammed-humair-058473124