3-6 Month Contract to Hire

Purpose:

RareMed is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team, responsible for ensuring the integrity, reliability, secure deployment, and operation of our cloud infrastructure.

As a team member, you will be tasked with understanding, deploying, and maintaining infrastructure supporting the RareMed corporate environment and the RareMed SaaS application. You will be responsible for diagnosing any configuration issues within these systems in coordination with stakeholders. In addition, you will be a primary point of contact for stakeholders who have service requests and technical problems with their automated deployments, servers, networks, and other infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Secure provisioning, installation, configuration, operation, and maintenance of version control systems, build tools and continuous integration tools

• Designing, building, and maintaining end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using the latest web technologies

• Working with application teams to build, maintain, secure, and document our development, testing, staging, and production environments

• Creating and maintaining scripts and templates necessary for the consistent creation of secure resources

• Providing support and advice for configuration changes to existing infrastructure

• Promoting DevOps best practices to continue improving software delivery and release processes in a secure manner

• Analyzing the functionality and interoperability between infrastructure resources

• Diagnosing and solving environment-specific bugs

• Monitoring and responding to incidents impacting the RareMed production applications

• Developing automation solutions for ‘self-healing’ resources in these environments

• Testing and evaluating new technologies

• Working with 3rd party vendor support such as Microsoft

• Taking responsibility for patching the staging and production Windows Server environments

• Handling bugs and documenting solutions where the underlying infrastructure requires remediation

Required Qualifications:

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in cloud architecture, preferably Azure

• At least 5 years of experience in professional software development

• Solid experience (5 years) with infrastructure as code, ideally using Terraform

• Proficiency in Kubernetes and Docker, with at least 3 years of hands-on experience

• Familiarity with CI/CD tools, preferably Jenkins

• Strong scripting skills in PowerShell and YAML

• Experience with log and crash dump analysis

• Demonstrated capability in deploying and managing serverless functions

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities