Devops Engineer Location: O'Fallon, MO/hybrid Duration: 24 Months Description: Overview: The Automation Frameworks team in Client’s Architecture & Technology division is leading the DevOps transformation at Client by developing automation tooling and driving standards throughout the development, quality, release, and product organizations. Our team members have an appetite for change and pushing the boundaries of what can be done with automation. We are responsible for automation standards with Client, maintaining industry standard tools such as Chef, Jenkins, and Ansible, and working closely with other departments supporting BitBucket (git), Sonar, Artifactory, Terraform, and more. Role: We demonstrate 'Client values every day - own it, simplify it, sense of urgency, thoughtful risk-taking, unlock potential, and be inclusive – with a relentless focus on our customers. As A Lead Engineer At Client, You Are Expected To Carry Out The Following General Duties: Own complex problems having dependency across services and facilitate cross-functional team interactions to drive resolution Define, design, and develop procedures and solutions at a service level to meet the business requirements/enhancements Automate and simplify all aspects of software delivery and development by actively evangelizing the need to automate and simplify where needed. Introduce new technologies and architecture by following enterprise guidelines Provide development and architecture guidance to team members All About You: The Automation Frameworks team is looking for a DevOps Engineer who can help us solve problems, build our CI/CD pipelines and lead Client in DevOps automation and best practices. Client is seeking an engineer with experience in industry standard CI/CD tools like Git/BitBucket, Jenkins, Maven, Artifactory, and Chef. Experience designing and implementing an effective and efficient CI/CD flow that gets code from dev to prod with high quality and minimal manual effort is required. Bachelor or master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent Experience in one or more of the following is preferred: Java, Python, Go, Groovy, Perl or Ruby. Design, implement, and enhance our deployment automation based on Chef and Ansible. We need proven experience writing chef recipes/cookbooks or Ansible playbooks as well as designing and implementing an overall Chef or Ansible based release and deployment process. Use Jenkins to orchestrate builds as well as link to Sonar, Chef, Maven, Artifactory, etc. to build out the CI/CD pipeline. Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement. Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity. Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems. Take a holistic approach to problem solving, by connecting the dots during a production event thru the various technology stack that makes up the platform, to optimize mean time to recover Work with a global team spread across tech hubs in multiple geographies and time zones We support many different stakeholders. Experience in dealing with difficult situations and making decisions with a sense of urgency is needed. What Is The Name Of Your Group: How Does It Fit Into The Overall Client Organization: Forge Onboarding What Program Will This Person Be Supporting: Will This Person Be A Part Of A Guild: If So, Which One And How Will They Be Contributing: Forge Onboarding What will a typical work day look like for this contractor: What are their expected hours: Varies each day What are your top 3 required technical skills: Maintaining industry standard tools such as Chef, Jenkins, and Ansible, and working closely with other departments supporting BitBucket (git), Sonar, Artifactory, Terraform, and more Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity. What are a couple of desired/nice to have technical skills: Onboarding onto developer tools and cloud What soft skills would you like to see in a candidate; Organized well articulated What technical level of technical competency is required to fulfill this position: [please use the terms: Foundational, Intermediate, or Advanced] Intermediate Why would someone want to work for your team within Client: What’s going to stand out to a candidate about your group or the work: Bleeding edge of infrastructure transformation Call notes: Code review and troubleshooting Capable and go getter Devops and Project management Jenkins Bitbucket AWS or Azure CI/CD pipelines Scripting : Java/Python Ansible /Chef both are ok No lead role or mentoring Please source candidates with customer interaction experience.