Cloud/DevOps Engineer - II

Job Title: Cloud/DevOps Engineer - II    
Location: San Francisco, CA 94105
Duration: 1 year
Pay Rate: $72.93/hr - $80/hr on W2

What the client does?
A central banking system of the United States that manages monetary policy, regulates financial institutions, provides banking services, and acts as a lender of last resort during financial crises.
 
AWS shop, Gitlab, hands on tech skills with AWS, familiarity with terraform, scanning tools knowledge (nexusIQ for example), need someone to come in and hit the ground running, cloud work has been increasing so we need someone who already has those skills.
 
In addition to being super technical savvy, the ideal candidate will possess:

• 7-10 years of AWS experience delivering technology solutions in a DevOps architectural capacity. “Hands On” experience with significant depth around crafting, implementing, and managing critical multi-functional components and their integration.
• Strong interpersonal skills, written and oral; strong and proven interpersonal skills to include collaborate in a professional manner, lead working groups, negotiate, influence, and build consensus.
• Proven ability to collaborate and work horizontally throughout a complex organization including exposure across IT including, infrastructure, networking, security, data management, and application development.
• Proven experience implementing, integrating, and maintaining the critical infrastructure for a DevOps environment.
• Knowledge of C , Java, JavaScript and .Net technology stacks and hands-on experience of integrating build tools and technologies across the enterprise
• Expertise working in a Linux and Windows operating systems.
• Experience in coding and scripting using scripting using Python, Groovy, Shell, YAML.JSON and other scripting languages.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Configuration/Build Management, Build/Release Management, and CI/CD pipelines, using tools such as NPM, Maven and GitLab/Git
• Strong knowledge of installation, configuration, support, and maintenance of GitLab and Artifact Repos (Nexus)
• Experience in preparing and reviewing vulnerabilities reports using security tools such as Fortify, SonarQube, Nexus IQ and GitLab native scan tools (Semgrep, Gymnasium).
• Experience in setting up Checkov and KICS for IaC scans.
• Experience with Visual Studio, Eclipse, IntelliJ, or any other popular IDEs.
• Ability to work with APIs and Plugins to integrate security tools into established CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience running containerization tools (Docker) workloads in AWS Services; CloudWatch, EC2, Lambda, Fargate, ECS and/or EKS.
• Secrets Management and storage using AWS Secrets Manager, Systems Manager Parameter Store and Vault
• Experience building and maintaining AWS environments using Terraform scripts and Infrastructure as Code is required.
• Knowledge of Agile tools Jira, VersionOne/HP-ALM.
• Bachelor and/or master’s degree in computer science, Information Management, Information Technology or Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience

 
Responsibilities:
Information Technology Services team has an opportunity for a Lead or Senior DevOps Build Engineer contracting role. The build engineer will be part of the DevOps & Platform Engineering group. This role requires a hands-on development and technical experience to support our customers with the implementation of automated CICD pipeline and integrating security scans (SAST, DAST, OSS and Container Scans) for cloud projects. The hired engineer will use their extraordinary communication/influencing skills and technical knowledge to drive the standardization of DevOps pipeline and provide guidance on secured architecture.
 

• Providing architecture, vision, problem anticipation, and problem solving on an enterprise level.
• Stay consistently informed about business, infrastructure, and technical issues to contribute to the development of creative solutions.
• Design, lead, and build an automated deployment tool set and infrastructure including environments, code management using a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery process.
• Takes ownership of technical aspects of software development for assigned applications.
• Ensure conformance to technical standards for programming and design technique.
• Maintain security in accordance with Bank information security policies.
  

Thank you and have a great day!

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About VARITE: 
VARITE is a global staffing and IT consulting company providing technical consulting and team augmentation services to Fortune 1000 Companies in UK, USA, CANADA and INDIA. VARITE is currently a primary and direct vendors to the leading corporations in the verticals of Networking, Cloud Infrastructure, Hardware and Software, Digital Marketing and Media Solutions, Clinical Diagnostics, Utilities, Gaming and Entertainment, and Financial Services.