Sr. DevOps Engineer

Our history:
From our start in 2009, Conexess has established itself in 3 markets, employing nearly 200+ individuals nationwide. Operating in over 15 states, our client base ranges from Fortune 500/1000 companies to mid-small range companies. For the majority of the mid-small range companies, we are exclusively used due to our outstanding staffing track record

Who We Are:
Conexess is a full-service staffing firm offering contract, contract-to-hire, and direct placements. We have a wide range of recruiting capabilities, from help desk technicians to CIOs. We are also capable of offering project-based work.

Cloud Architecture and Engineering

• Design, implement, and support highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient solutions across AWS and Microsoft Azure.
• Serve as the technical authority for cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, automation, and DevOps practices.
• Develop cloud reference architecture, engineering standards, deployment patterns, and technical documentation.
• Evaluate existing cloud environments and recommend improvements related to performance, security, reliability, scalability, and cost.
• Support cloud migrations, application modernization initiatives, and hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
• Design solutions that incorporate appropriate disaster recovery, backup, business continuity, and high-availability capabilities.
• Provide technical guidance on cloud-native services and recommend the appropriate platform based on business and application requirements.

DevOps and CI/CD

• Design, implement, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for application, infrastructure, and platform deployments.
• Establish standardized processes for code integration, testing, security scanning, release management, and production deployment.
• Support CI/CD platforms and tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, and AWS CodeDeploy.
• Automate repetitive engineering and operational processes to improve delivery speed, consistency, and reliability.
• Implement deployment strategies such as blue-green deployments, canary releases, rolling deployments, and automated rollback.
• Partner with development teams to improve software delivery practices and reduce deployment-related risk.

Infrastructure as Code and Automation

• Design, develop, and maintain reusable Infrastructure as Code modules using tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure Bicep, and ARM templates.
• Implement configuration management and automation using tools such as Ansible, PowerShell, Python, and Bash.
• Use source control, testing, peer review, versioning, and documentation standards for infrastructure code.
• Develop reusable automation frameworks that support consistent provisioning across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual administration and improve operational efficiency through automation.

Containers and Platform Engineering

• Design, deploy, and manage containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.—
• Support container orchestration platforms such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, Azure Kubernetes Service, Amazon Elastic Container Service, and related cloud-native services.
• Develop and maintain Kubernetes configurations, Helm charts, deployment templates, and operational standards.-
• Implement container security, image scanning, secrets management, network policies, and access controls.
• Support platform engineering initiatives that provide development teams with standardized, self-service deployment capabilities.

Cloud Security and Governance

• Implement cloud security controls aligned with organizational policies, industry standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Apply identity and access management principles, including least-privilege access, role-based access control, multifactor authentication, privileged access management, and workload identity.
• Configure and support AWS Identity and Access Management, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure role-based access control, service principals, managed identities, and related identity services.
• Implement secure secrets and certificate management using services such as AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Key Management Service, Azure Key Vault, and certificate management platforms.
• Integrate security testing into CI/CD pipelines, including static analysis, dependency scanning, container scanning, infrastructure scanning, and policy validation.
• Support cloud governance practices related to account and subscription management, resource tagging, policy enforcement, logging, encryption, network segmentation, and compliance reporting.
• Participate in cloud security reviews, risk assessments, audits, vulnerability remediation, and incident response activities.

Monitoring, Reliability, and Operations

• Develop comprehensive monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability capabilities for cloud infrastructure and applications.
• Support tools and services such as Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and other enterprise monitoring platforms.
• Define service-level indicators, service-level objectives, operational dashboards, and alerting standards.
• Troubleshoot complex issues involving cloud infrastructure, networking, identity, application performance, automation, and deployment pipelines.
• Participate in root-cause analysis and corrective action efforts following service disruptions or failed deployments.
• Improve system reliability through automated recovery, proactive monitoring, capacity planning, performance tuning, and operational testing.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and provide escalation support for critical cloud services when required.

Cloud Networking

• Design and support secure cloud networking solutions, including virtual private clouds, virtual networks, subnets, routing, load balancers, private endpoints, firewalls, network security groups, gateways, and DNS.
• Support connectivity between AWS, Azure, corporate data centers, branch locations, and third-party environments.
• Work with technologies such as AWS Transit Gateway, AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute, VPN gateways, application gateways, and web application firewalls.
• Troubleshoot complex network connectivity, routing, security, and performance issues across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Cost Optimization and Capacity Management

• Monitor and optimize AWS and Azure consumption, licensing, storage, compute, network, and managed service costs.
• Develop dashboards, reports, budgets, forecasts, and alerts to improve cloud financial visibility.
• Identify opportunities involving rightsizing, reserved capacity, savings plans, autoscaling, storage optimization, and removal of unused resources.
• Partner with technology, finance, and business teams to establish cloud cost governance and accountability.
• Promote FinOps practices and ensure cloud investments align with business value and operational requirements.

Technical Leadership and Collaboration

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to engineering, infrastructure, security, architecture, and business leadership.
• Lead technical design sessions, architecture reviews, proof-of-concept initiatives, and technology evaluations.
• Mentor DevOPS cloud engineers, system administrators, and software development teams.
• Provide guidance on cloud engineering standards, troubleshooting techniques, automation practices, and secure development processes.