

Sr. DevOps Engineer (Utah Locals Only) - W2
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This role is for a Sr. DevOps Engineer in Salt Lake City, Utah, on a W2 contract for an unspecified length. It requires 5+ years of experience in technical infrastructure, enterprise Java, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines. Hybrid work is available.
π - Country
United States
π± - Currency
$ USD
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π° - Day rate
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ποΈ - Date discovered
July 23, 2025
π - Project duration
Unknown
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ποΈ - Location type
Hybrid
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π - Contract type
W2 Contractor
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π - Security clearance
Unknown
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π - Location detailed
Salt Lake City, UT
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π§ - Skills detailed
#AWS DevOps #Infrastructure as Code (IaC) #Security #GitHub #Documentation #DevOps #Linux #Leadership #Scripting #Containers #Migration #Deployment #Cloud #Python #AWS (Amazon Web Services) #DBA (Database Administrator) #Docker #Bash #Terraform #Jira #NoSQL #Databases #Project Management #Monitoring #Java #Jenkins #Maven #Replication #Disaster Recovery #Web Services
Role description
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Open to local to Utah candidates only
Mode of work: Hybrid
Mode of Interview: In-Person Only
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Required Skills
β’ Minimum of 5 years designing and maintaining technical infrastructure.
β’ Experience with transitioning monolithic application to service oriented architectures
β’ Enterprise Java experience
β’ Familiar with building Docker containers and creating deployment pipelines for multiple environments
Preferred Skills
β’ Experience with RedHat (Linux)
β’ Experience with Open Source
β’ Experience with Amazon Web Services
β’ Experience with Websphere
β’ DB2 experience
β’ Java Built environments
β’ Experience with Maven
β’ Experience with Jenkins
Roles/Responsibilities:
β’ Cross and merge the barriers that exist between software development, testing and operations teams while keeping existing networks in mind as they design, plan and test.
Project management, best practices and workflows
β’ Tools such as JIRA, GITHub, AWS DevOps
Assist developers in troubleshooting:
β’ Applications
β’ Migrations
β’ Conversions
β’ Deployments/publications
β’ Additional skills beyond system administrator
Security roles:
β’ Enforcing governance and best practices through security guardrails
β’ Adhere to all State of Utah security definitions
β’ Evaluate logs
β’ Follow specific procedures and document for knowledge transfer
β’ Work in conjunction with like-minded departments and closely with developers and other Devops personnel throughout the State of Utah to successfully deploy applications and ensure consistent and repeatable practices.
β’ Collaborate with software developers, system operators and other IT staff members to manage code releases and cloud infrastructure.
β’ Use leadership skills to team build and train others by being the example through showing self-motivation, professionalism and adaptability to change.
β’ Devops will require additional skills beyond system administrator
β’ Work with developers to understand workflows, identify resources, system requirements, create Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scripts to provision the resources, and create automated CI/CD pipelines, across all environments.
β’ Work closely with Developers, Sys Admins, and Cloud Architects on best practices
β’ Provision resources in cloud environments
β’ Maintain and troubleshoot the health of applications and infrastructure
β’ Build and maintain consistent environments
β’ Manage the reliability of application infrastructure and environments, such as monitoring and identifying ways to make improvements
β’ Ensure consistent and accurate billing
β’ Work with Development Managers to provide accurate cost estimates
β’ Enforce security governance and best practices in security guardrails
β’ Develop, build, test, and maintain Cloud solutions by implementing reusable scripts and components
β’ Translate technical and business requirements
β’ Assist with all stages of testing
β’ Participate in application strategic project-planning meetings
β’ In addition to providing guidance and expertise on system options, risk, impact and costs vs. benefits, create and share operational requirements and development forecasts to allow for timely and accurate planning of projects.
β’ Ensure environments meet state, agency, and regulatory policies and best practices
β’ Help create requirements and procedures for implementing routine maintenance
β’ Follow department change management processes
β’ Disaster Recovery (DR) and Replication, including DBA in the planning process, as needed.
β’ Assist in developing and preserving system knowledge, decisions, processes, etc. by maintaining documentation in a team area. This aids in training, passing on knowledge, and maintaining continuity in the eREP system.
β’ Skills:
β’ Must have scripting knowledge to build and maintain infrastructure as code (ex: Terraform, BASH, Cloud Formation, Python)
β’ Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.