Associate DevOps Engineer

A financial firm is looking for an **Associate DevOps Engineer** to join their team in Charlotte, NC. *Compensation: $130\-155k* **Responsibilities** * Participate in full lifecycle development of SDLC and implement all DevOps procedures to manage and support the CI/CD process including the automation of the build, test, deploy pipelines and configuration management. * Employ best practices for designing automation processes and utilities that can be easily used by the development teams. * Design and develop a best practice release management process that employs separation of control and proper approvals. * Closely partner with the security and infrastructure teams to incorporate corporate standards into the CI/CD and provisioning processes. * Maintaining source control management system and integrating it with software build and deployment. * Responsibility for the build environment: resolve build issues, help coordinate complex software test environments and software releases. * Monitoring of Applications operational processes, escalating and facilitating failure resolution as appropriate. **Qualifications** *Required* * 5\+ years of professional experience of working with the full software development life cycle and designing/developing best practice CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions, Ansible (IaC), Terraform/CloudFormation, K8s, test automation, static code analysis, Artifactory and release management processes. * Proficient in at least two of the following Windows batch/PowerShell, bash, Python. * Knowledgeable about networking (TCP, UDP, ICMP, ARP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, SSH, NAT, firewall, load balancing, etc). * Strong experience with managing and support of Windows/Linux Servers. * Good understanding of deployment of various platforms such as web/REST API, messaging bus/queue, application services, Microservices and Cloud Serverless components/managed platform. * Experience working with relational databases/SQL and no\-SQL, other database technologies are a plus. * A curiosity concerning technology and the ability to learn new systems and tools quickly. * Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a collaborative environment. **Preferred** * Experience with Cloud solutions i.e Azure (VNet, privateLink, Blob storage, Azure SQL, Web App, Data Factory, Client, AKS, ARO, SQL Server/Cosmos) / AWS (VPC, EC2, S3, Route53, ECS, EKS, RDS, ALB/NLB). * Experience with code\-quality (SonarQube, GitHub Enterprise Advanced Security/CodeQL, Jfrog Artifactory \+ Xray). * Experience with containers and orchestration technologies (Docker, K8s, OpenShift). * Experience with application telemetry, monitoring and alerting solutions (Splunk, LogicMonitor, AWS CloudWatch, Azure Insight or similar).