DevOps Engineer

Experis IT ManpowerGroup has partnered with a leading Pharma Company in the Pleasanton, CA for a Devops Engineer role to assist their team. This is an on-site role.

Industry: Pharma Company

Title: Devops Engineer

Location: Pleasanton, CA

Duration: 6 months

Shift: M-F : 8 Am - 5 PM

Description

Description

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.

• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists

What You'll Work On

• Work with developers to identify potential operational issues with software and workflows before production release.

• Work with cross-functional teams and external vendors to bring software to market.

• Coordinate software and application deployments and testing in various environments.

• Investigate and resolve escalated customer problems via Tier-2 production tickets.

• Evaluate existing processes for inefficiencies and improvements. Develop new processes to address the fast-evolving infrastructure. Pro-actively look for ways to enhance the functionality, reliability, and operation of production systems.

• Apply DevOps thinking - i.e. bring development and IT operation processes, people and tools closer together to increase the speed, efficiency, and quality with which we deliver product solutions.

• Contribute to the support and maintenance of Microsoft Azure Cloud applications.

• Develop tools and automation to improve workflows and processes.

• Support all Company initiatives, policies, operating procedures, and processes. Maintain positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors.

Required Qualifications

Working knowledge of Azure and Azure PaaS services

Working knowledge of Waterfall, Agile, and primarily DevOps development methodologies

Normally determines technical objectives of assignments. Exercises latitude in approach to solutioning

Knowledgeable in managing software code projects and conducting management of said projects

Experience with Automation in testing or orchestration

Experience with tools such as Terraform, Git, Gitlab

Knowledgeable in CI/CD in relation to Gitlab, Azure DevOps, and/or similar platforms

Exposed to security checks in CI/CD pipelines

Understanding of virtualization and container technologies (Docker, AKS/Kubernetes, etc.)

Experience with REST APIs

Experience managing vendor relationships

Ability to contribute to dev ops workflows via scripting and other regular system administration activities

Demonstrated knowledge of scripting languages

General exposure to how key networking components operate/function, primarily firewalls and load-balancers/reverse proxies such F5 LTM/GTM or Azure native services

5+ years of DevOps experience

2+ years of Azure experience preferred

3+ years of software development experience

1-2years of software development or devops lead/manager experience"

Preferred Qualifications

• Good understanding of modern, cloud centric architectures and microservices, software programming, networking concepts, cybersecurity,

and cloud computing.

• Experience working in a Medical Devices field or controlled and heavily regulated environment.

• Ability to work in a highly matrixed and geographically diverse business environment.

• Ability to work within a team and as an individual contributor in a fast-paced, changing environment.

• Ability to leverage and/or engage others to accomplish projects.

• Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively

communicate at multiple levels in the organization.

• Multitasks, prioritizes, and meets deadlines in timely manner. • Strong organizational and follow-up skills, as well as attention to detail