Azure Devops Engineer needed in St. Louis - Resource Informatics Group : Job Details

This is an Azure Devops Engineer Long Term Rolling Contract - 2 days onsite in St. Louis, 3 Days remote weekly Duties and Responsibilities • Lead and oversee migration standards, release management and application deliverable migrations within the Shared Services group, and partnering with stakeholders to execute on vision. • Responsible for the Release Management lifecycle that involves the stages such as scheduling the release, coordinating between teams, and deployment of release as per the schedule on-premise and cloud applications. • Understanding of CI/CD pipeline and contribute towards in DevOps automation scripts to improve system reliability and efficiency. • Identify and manage the risks that may delay the release, to ensure the quality and scope are not compromised. • Continuously improve the release management process to increase efficiency and quality. • Develop CI/CD pipeline with Gitlab, Jenkins build, Artifactory and Ansible to facilitate rapid deployment and testing of infrastructure and configuration changes for multiple Agile development teams. • Responds, when required, to triage production issues related to DevOps duties and follow Service Level Agreement set forth. • Fully imbedded in Shared Services team, and participates in all agile ceremonies and planning • ccepts work into the team backlog and owns the commitment related to what has been laid out to be completed each PI.? • Responsible for optimizing, enhancing, and supporting cybersecurity protocols as it relates to the Shared Service application suite • Research and implement new technology to keep the team at the front of innovation. Essential Characteristics and Competencies • Demonstrate servant leader mindset • bility to teach and mentor, fostering an environment of continuous learning and progress • Excellent understanding of software development life cycles • Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Believes in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, and trust across the ART • bility to recognize problems and respond, systematically gather information, sort through complex issues, understand consequences of decisions, provides recommendation, and seeks input from leadership Supervisory Responsibilities • No direct supervision required, but indirect technical leadership required. Required Education (certifications, licenses)

• Bachelor's degree - Computer Science, Information Technology, or Technical Engineering required
• 5 years of experience in IT Release management and DevOps required
• SAFe certification(s) a plus
• DevOps certification(s) a plus

• 3+ years of experience with CI/CD tools such as Gitlab, Jenkins, Ansible, Dockers and Kubernete
• Experience with Oracle and SQL server databases
• Experience with Linux and Windows Operation Systems
• Experience developing in an agile environment a plus
• Advanced knowledge of software development tools and methodologies like Agile & DevOps.
• Advanced knowledge of DevSecOps CI/CD processes and IT Release management
• Advanced knowledge in Gitlab, Jenkins, Ansible, Dockers, Kubernetes, Terraform and equivalent DevOps tools.
• Working knowledge of Source Control best practices
• Strong scripting experience (JavaScript, Groovy, Python, Bash, PowerShell)
• Strong analytical skills/capabilities to solve complex issues arising during design and testing phases