DevOps Engineer | Direct Hire | Hybrid x2 day on-site | Short Hills, NJ
Optomi, in partnership with a leading insurance organization, is seeking an accomplished Senior DevOps Engineer to join their team. This role offers the opportunity to leverage cloud technologies to accelerate value delivery to customers and drive innovation across the organization. The Senior DevOps Engineer will play a critical role in shaping and enhancing development practices by defining and implementing best practices, patterns, and automation strategies. This individual will lead efforts to design, improve, and sustain continuous integration and delivery pipelines while providing hands-on technical oversight to ensure projects align with organizational strategy, architecture, and methodologies. Acting as both a technical leader and trusted advisor, the Senior DevOps Engineer will bring thought leadership in modernization, technology advancement, and application lifecycle management, while also providing expert consulting, mentorship, and guidance to organizational leaders and development teams.
What the right candidate will enjoy!
- Direct Hire full-time opportunity
- Flexible hybrid schedule
- Acting as a leader in modernization, technology advancement, and application lifecycle management
- Driving efficient development practices and influencing best practices and patterns across teams
Experience of the right candidate :
Over 7 years of experience in applications developmentMore than 5 years of experience designing DevOps pipelines using tools and technologies including Azure DevOps, SonarQube, and YAMLIn-depth knowledge of Azure services including but not limited to Azure Compute, Azure Storage, Azure Networking, Azure App Service, Logic Apps, VMSS, and Azure SecurityProficiency in Azure DevOps and building CI / CD pipelines, including Azure environment provisioning tasksExperience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, Terraform, Puppet, or AnsibleExperience with scripting languages such as Bicep, PowerShell, Bash, or PythonDemonstrated experience in cloud cost optimization, governance, and implementing FinOps practicesStrong leadership and influencing skills with the ability to drive change and foster a DevOps culture across teamsExperience designing and implementing disaster recovery strategies and high-availability architectures in cloud environmentsSelf-starter who is capable of working independently and making decisions when necessary / as applicableStrong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication and the ability to communicate with audiences at varying technical levelsPreferred : Experience working in an Agile environment, preferably SAFePreferred : Azure certifications such as Azure Administrator Associate, Azure DevOps Engineer ExpertPreferred : Experience in Application Security / DevSecOps rolesResponsibilities of the right candidate :
Design and oversee the implementation of cloud-based architecture, networking, and containerization, utilizing Infrastructure-as-Code for automation and patternsLead the creation and deployment of CI / CD and other automation solutions, focusing on design patterns that emphasize reuse, scalability, performance, availability, and securityDevelop and enhance process flows, release pipeline documentation, mockups, and other materials to convey technical details and their alignment with desired outcomesConduct technical evaluations of DevOps solutions, understand existing industry options, and design necessary custom system integrationsServe as a strategic thinker, thought leader, internal consultant, advocate, mentor, and change agent for DevOps architecture within development teamsMeasure and demonstrate the benefits and business value of DevOps improvementsPresent innovative and complex solutions and ideas to participants at all levels, working both as a leader and an individual contributorIdentify customer, business, and technology needs through relationship building and communication with key stakeholdersIdentify gaps and propose modernization opportunities that involve both process and technical / automation aspects of the SDLCDebug and troubleshoot issues with new and existing CI / CD pipelines