DevOps Engineer

Position Title: DevOps Engineer

Work Location: Sylmar, CA (Onsite)

Assignment Duration: 6 months (possibility of extension)

Position Summary:

Looking for DevOps with 3+ year of experience. Builds and maintains CI/CD pipelines

Key Responsibilities:

* Builds and maintains CI/CD pipelines

* Manages cloud infrastructure and containerized environments

* Implements monitoring, logging, and alerting

* Automates repetitive operational tasks

* Ensures smooth, reliable deployments

* Passion for DevOps, DevSecOps, Agile, and Security

* Working knowledge of Azure and Azure PaaS services

* Working knowledge of Waterfall, Agile, and primarily DevOps development methodologies

* Normally determines technical objectives of assignments. Exercises latitude in approach to solutioning.

* Knowledgeable in managing software code projects and conducting management of said projects

* Experience with Automation in testing or orchestration

* Experience with tools such as Terraform, Git, Gitlab

* Knowledgeable in CI/CD in relation to Gitlab, Azure DevOps, and/or similar platforms

* Exposed to security checks in CI/CD pipelines

* Understanding of virtualization and container technologies (Docker, AKS/Kubernetes, etc.)

* Experience with REST APIs

* Experience managing vendor relationships

* Ability to contribute to dev ops workflows via scripting and other regular system administration activities

* Demonstrated knowledge of scripting languages

* General exposure to how key networking components operate/function, primarily firewalls and load-balancers/reverse proxies such F5 LTM/GTM or Azure native services

* Provide system performance optimization, maintenance and production support (if escalated to)

* Refine conceptual system requirements into a technical design consisting of job flows and program specifications

* Understand customers' business objectives and system requirements and work closely with customers to determine their strategic requirements and measure performance against expectations. Assist in customer resolutions

* Responsible for staying abreast of new developments in technologies and making recommendations as appropriate

* Applies enterprise security policies and standards when performing all operational duties.

Qualification & Experience:

* Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer, Electrical or Biomedical Engineering. Knowledge of software coding.

* Knowledge of software development lifecycle management tools.

* Organized, on-time, quick learner and detailed oriented.

* Excellent documentation skills in delivering information that adds value to managements decision-making process.

* Experienced in quantitative, analytical, organizational, and follow-up skills.

* Polished communicator - written documentation and oral presentations/ discussions/ meetings.

* Excellent reputation for building relationships across various levels of an organization.

* Energized attitude, proactive thinker and self-starter.

* We are primarily looking for somebody who has good coding skills, no testing experience required.

* Education in computer science is preferred.

* 3+ years of exp.

* Looking for candidates who are organized and proficient thinkers with excellent communication skills.

* Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization

* Multitasks, prioritizes and meets deadlines in timely manner

* Ability to maintain regular and predictable attendance.

Background & Context:

* Med device exp is nice to have but not required.

* Prefer local candidates but relocation at own expense is fine as long as it's within two weeks and onboarding is not interrupted.

* Potential to extend and/or convert to FTE for right candidate but no guarantees.