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

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.

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Senior DevOps Engineer, Kubernetes

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