DevOps Engineer

Title: DevOps Engineer, Development Support

Duration: 6-month Contract-to-Hire

Location: Denver, CO OR Nashville, TN (Hybrid, onsite 3 days per month: Tuesday – Thursday, 2nd week)

Pay: $40/hr

Client: Major Healthcare Company

Job Summary:

As a member of the Release Management Team DevOps Team, the DevOps Engineer will work with Development, QA, Security, and Production Operations teams.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate software patterns, architectures, and configurations against security and operational considerations.
• Collaborate within a team-based DevOps approach to design, build, implement, and improve offerings.
• Identify opportunities to improve and automate processes, systems, and code.
• Design, implement, and manage systems to meet functionality, scalability, performance, and reliability requirements.
• Demonstrate how DevOps and Cloud can enhance speed, flexibility, and quality.
• Work with strategic planning groups to align future technologies with executive vision.
• Develop processes and procedures to manage pre-production and production environments proactively.
• Plan release windows and cycles across a portfolio.
• Manage risks and resolve issues affecting release scope, schedule, and quality.
• Monitor progress to ensure timely and budget-compliant application releases.
• Coordinate release content and effort based on service request backlog, third-party applications, or OS updates.
• Communicate key project plans, commitments, and changes, including requirements, QA plans, schedule, and scope changes.
• Manage relationships and coordinate work between teams at different locations.
• Conduct Release Readiness, Milestone, and Business Go/No-Go reviews.
• Organize and coordinate complex releases involving cross-functional teams and multiple interrelated changes.
• Ensure resource requirements for releases are met.
• Implement risk mitigation practices (e.g., back out/contingency planning).
• Provide ongoing written and verbal release status updates.
• Communicate release details and schedules to the business as needed.
• Negotiate, plan, and manage all release activities.
• Maintain the release schedule for core services and ensure alignment with key partners and vendors.
• Continuously improve the release process.
• Lead and coordinate Go-Live activities, including deployment plans and checklists.
• Participate in CAB meetings to discuss release scope and roadblocks.
• Research new software development and configuration management methodologies and technologies.
• Serve as an escalation point for release-related issues and questions.
• Use subject matter expertise, evidence, and judgment to mitigate risks by adjusting releases and processes.
• Use post-release reviews to improve the release management process.
• Support IT initiatives to reduce system workload (elimination, automation, or self-service).
• Assist in updating and documenting key policies, processes, and procedures.
• Identify areas for improvement and integration in key processes.

Skills:

• Hands-on experience and proficiency with DevOps and Cloud (Google Cloud preferred).
• Software development experience, including language proficiency, GitOps familiarity, and coding/testing best practices.
• Cloud-native and hybrid-Cloud approaches.
• Microservice delivery and operation, including polyglot database architectures.
• CICD and release management.
• Technical capabilities with:
• Terraform
• Modern CICD tooling
• Kubernetes
• VM migration, image creation/management (e.g., Packer), and highly available operation
• Relational and NoSQL databases
• Core networking concepts and application
• Core security best practices

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