Responsibilities
Kforce's client in Austin, TX is seeking a DevOps Engineer. This company is a global enterprise software provider specializing in modern financial advisor and client interactions, using financial education, complex calculations, and deep personalization as a basis for client engagement. Our clients include many of the world's leading banks, private banks, wealth management firms, life and annuity companies, and employee benefit providers. We can consider candidates for this position who are able to accommodate an in-office work schedule and are close to our office location in Austin, TX. Responsibilities:
- Propose, design, and develop new DevOps projects
- Develop tools (e.g. dashboards) to continuously improve maintainability, monitoring, security and scalability of production environments (We have more than 10 separate production environments)
- Coordinate and perform periodic maintenance of all test and production AWS deployments (image updates, disaster recovery test, etc.)
- Develop expertise in our current deployment solution, and continually design enhancements. Technologies used include: EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, VPC, CloudFormation, Route53, WAF, Jenkins, DataDog, Tomcat, Apache, Ansible, MySQL, Redis, Java
- Setup and maintain internal DevOps tools such as Jenkins and Git
- Occasionally be on-call as part of DevOps team rotation
Requirements
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification
- 3+ years experience in a similar role
- Experience as a Linux system or DevOps Engineer
- Automation scripting language experience (Python+, Bash, Groovy)
- Expertise with virtualization technology and methods
- Experience maintaining production web deployments
- Configuration management experience (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
- Self-starter who takes initiative
- Cloud computing administration - Amazon AWS preferred
- Jenkins experience
- "DB" experience - MySQL, Redis etc.
- Load balancing and networking (HTTP, SSL, etc.) experience
- Web and application security experience
- Experience or familiarity with Java application servers and servlet containers
The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.
We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.
Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.
This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.
Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
