Senior DevOps Engineer

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Job description

My client a leading Law Firm located in downtown Chicago is seeking a dynamic Senior DevOps Engineer. The Senior DevOps Engineer will drive the architecture, business objectives and overall infrastructure in co-operation with the technical architect. This individual must be able to take high level direction, formulate a plan to achieve the goals and execute the plan.

Requirements:

• Maintains DevOps environment, tools, scripts, configuration etc.
• Review and monitor DevOps activities, logs, and act accordingly.
• Advise 3rd party vendor on approach consistent with company standards
• Recognize and respond to reported issues in a prompt manner. Resolve problems and perform root cause analysis as required and improvise processes and procedures using best practices.
• Support changes affecting DevOps infrastructure and application environments. Collaborate with members of the Application Development team to understand technology and standards
• Work closely with project Technical Architect to understand strategic direction for application and guide tool per that direction.
• Release management and deployment, including participation in on-call rotation for after hours DevOps/ application support.
• Assist/support in troubleshooting production and non-production environment issues with configuration, code, or 3rd-party dependencies and integrations.
• Investigates operational or systematic problems and provides resolution using intermediate analytical skills and tools as necessary.
• Configuration management of existing and new server infrastructure, maintenance, updates, and migrations ensuring known state across environments.
• Maintain application security, design and documentation according to legal compliance requirements and Security governance directions.
• Manage environmental (infrastructure, code versions, and data) differences.
• Create process and change control documentation.

Experience:

• 5+ years of DevOps and application support experience in a fast paced environment
• Strong understanding of the software development life cycle and the various methodologies
• Knowledge of MS .Net, and .Net core.
• Fairly decent hands on working knowledge around Linux and Windows based systems
• Comfortable in working with cloud and on-prem environments - Azure, containers etc
• Understanding of secure coding best practices including OWASP top 10 and other potential application vulnerabilities, and securing infrastructure layer to mitigate attack vectors (including undesirable information disclosure at the server and make recommendations at the application level)
• Understanding of SSL certificates and management
• Understanding of F5 load balancing/APM capabilities
• Familiarity with identity management with ADFS, Azure AD, and SAML client configuration
• Familiarity with DNS record management

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar disciplines or equivalent work experience.
• DevOps certifications preferred

Salary:

• up to $175k plus bonus