Sr. DevOps Kubernetes Engineer

ASCENDING Inc. is dedicated to serving the nation's military and Veterans, supporting federal agencies to advance the U.S. health care system. They are seeking a skilled Sr. DevOps Kubernetes Engineer to design, develop, and maintain automated build and release structures while migrating applications to Kubernetes clusters in Azure/AKS.

Responsibilities:

• Setup, install, configure and maintain build infrastructure
• Maintain source control branches
• Perform periodic builds and deployments to production environment
• Work with other IT teams to review pre-release checklists and coordinate activities to be performed prior to, during and post releases by others
• Work with other IT teams to perform troubleshooting and resolution of build and deployment issues in sprint and during releases related to deployment targets, databases, certificates, permissions, firewall changes, IIS configurations and any other system and network dependencies
• Work with Development teams and participate in troubleshooting high priority application related issues after releases
• Configure and maintain application settings and credentials
• Perform administration of GitHub including regular maintenance, user management and security
• Design and implement policies for managing source code within ADO and GitHub, including branching, merging and tagging policies to support frequent releases, concurrent development, and partial fixes
• Create and maintain documentation of the build and release processes
• Develop metrics and reporting for build and release tasks
• Investigate, evaluate, propose and implement new tools or processes to improve the reliability, stability and efficiency of the build and deployment pipelines
• Participating in weekly on-call rotation for triaging production critical issues

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• At least 2 years of experience working within a DevOps Engineering role
• Intermediate knowledge of cloud infrastructure services, specifically with Azure
• 2+ years of experience with Kubernetes or other containerization technologies (AKS)
• 2+ years of experience with CI/CD tools and platforms such as Azure DevOps, Argo, and Flux
• Experience supporting 24x7, high availability application environments that include web, application and database servers and load balancing systems
• Basic to intermediate knowledge of Microsoft SQL server and relational databases
• Demonstrated experience working in a fast paced, large scale Agile/Scrum development environment
• Equivalent combination of education, experience and/or applicable military experience will be considered
• Experience with CI using tools such as Azure DevOps, YAML, Task Agent, or Pools
• Experience working with Container technologies like Docker, Kubernetes