Cloud DevSecOps Engineer III Remote (CST or EST) 12 month contract Pay Rate: $65.00 to $70.00 per hr. We need a Cloud DevOps Engineer III who will play a pivotal role in advancing our cloud strategy. The primary focus of this role will include developing, communicating and implementing cloud Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines that are robust and secure. This role will work closely with all stakeholders to create fully automated pipelines that support current DevOps best practices. Primary Responsibilities • Partners with other developers and other information technology staff to oversee code releases • Articulates business needs and translates them into technology solutions • Designs and develops fully autonomous CI/CD pipelines that facilitate cloud deployments which includes automation of all infrastructure, services and application build and deployment • Ensures that all parts of the pipeline follow good software engineering practices to include unit tests and infrastructure tests • Researches new technologies that will improve efficiency and effectiveness • Implements highly scalable applications • Maintains the health of cloud-based production environments through monitoring and typical daily administration duties • Automates operational activities and tasks • Responds to performance issues identified by alerts and reported incidents • Builds tools that reduce errors and improve our overall customer experiences • Assists in troubleshooting of production issues and ensures the pipeline and infrastructure produces clear documentation and metrics which enables Root Cause Analysis • Develops and tests – Ansible Playbooks, Terraform Scripts, Packer Scripts and establish immutable infrastructure such that patches are an artifact of the past • Works with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security (InfoSec), Application Development to enable the organization to move to the cloud using complete automation Required Skills: • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or High school diploma or GED and seven (7) of DevOps experience • Three (3) years experience as a DevOps practitioner • Preferred AWS DevOps certification or Azure DevOps certification • Experience with either AWS or Azure cloud technologies • Working Knowledge of Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Git, ServiceNow a big plus • Familiar with implementing Chaos engineering principles in the pipeline in order to determine weak links and suggest solutions. • Proficient in python programming language • Excellent knowledge of Cloud Infrastructure – Compute – Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Virtual Machines (VM's), SQL – Amazon Relational Database Service (AWS RDS) or Azure SQL, Document Data Store (DynamoDb,Mongo), Security Groups, Subnets • Experience in building / deploying cloud native applications – OpenShift, , Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) • Experience in observing real-time metrics in the pipeline and deployment strategies – Blue/Green, Canary Deployment • Must be comfortable in developing pipelines as code using yaml specs, ansible playbooks • Experience with interfacing with secrets management solutions like Hashicorp Vault • Excellent communication skills and willing to mentor developers and other team members in the art of DevOps • Experience with either AWS or Azure cloud technologies