Sr. DevOps Kubernetes Engineer

About this role

DevOps Engineer II
Long term contract- 2+ years
100% remote in the continental US

Our client is dedicated to serving our nation's military and Veterans. They have the honor to support federal agencies in their efforts to advance the United States health care system and improve the overall health and well-being of all those who serve or have served our country. To support this mission, our client has embarked on a multi-year modernization journey, within which the DevOps Engineer will play a key role: designing, developing, and maintaining the client's automated build and release structure and deployment pipeline. This will span from code compilation and automated testing to deploying releases to multiple environments.

Our client is seeking a talented DevOps Engineer, with strong experience spinning up Kubernetes clusters. You will be joining a team that is currently migrating from on-prem to the cloud and migrating their suites of web applications into Kubernetes clusters in Azure/AKS.

Responsibilities
Setup, install, configure and maintain build infrastructure

• Maintain source control branches
• Perform periodic builds and deployments to production environment
• Work with other IT teams to review pre-release checklists and coordinate activities to be performed prior to, during and post releases by others
• Work with other IT teams to perform troubleshooting and resolution of build and deployment issues in sprint and during releases related to deployment targets, databases, certificates, permissions, firewall changes, IIS configurations and any other system and network dependencies
• Work with Development teams and participate in troubleshooting high priority application related issues after releases
• Configure and maintain application settings and credentials
• Perform administration of GitHub including regular maintenance, user management and security
• Design and implement policies for managing source code within ADO and Gi...