Senior Devops Engineer Duration: 6 months contract to hireLocation: Hybrid 4 days a week in Greenwood Village, CO; 1 day remotelook for Nearby Candidates Experience : 10 + years MUST HAVE : development background is mandatory MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES The Dev Ops Lead Engineer will own the ideation, design, development, enhancement and continuous improvement of our Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment CI/CD Pipelines.Ideation and design 50% of time Evaluate our current CI Pipelines Design new solutions Design, develop and constantly improve existing AWS Environments by enhancing our CloudFormation and Terraform scripts. Design, develop and constantly improve existing iOS and Android build Pipelines. Partner with development team to improve development efficiencies. Work with architecture team to ideate and design infrastructure, environment, and CI/CD improvements. Develop Features and Epics and work with the greater WDE team to groom and prioritize them. Develop Stories prior to SAFE Program Increment Planning (PIP Lead PIP with team. Groom stories with the team. Lead Sprint Planning. Development Work 50% of time Enhance existing Android, iOS, and Server Pipelines to integrate automated end to end testing improving our confidence in every deployment. Partner with our automation framework team to create CI solutions that improve automated testing, Enhance existing SonarQube capabilities in Android and iOS SDKs and APKs builds. Enhance existing SonarQube capabilities on our server code builds. Ideate, design and implement enhanced production monitoring across all our products. Create new CI/CD Pipelines for new projects. Implement industry and AWS best practices for deployment, monitoring and alerting. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS Independent self-starting problem solver with a creative passion to develop DevOps solutions with a variety of tools, strategies and techniques. Design documentation skills. Comfortable writing and prioritizing Agile Epics, Features and Stories. Leads Feature grooming sessions with leadership and other teams. Leads Story grooming and planning sessions with DevOps Team. A DevOps thought leader that can contribute to the constant improvement of our processes. Experience designing and deploying AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, , Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling groups, Cloud Formation. Working knowledge of branching and merging code in GitLab Strong working knowledge of developing CI/CD Pipelines. We use GitLab Runner Pipelines, and strong working knowledge with Jenkins is very transferable. Working understanding of AWS Virtual Private Clouds and AWS Networking. Strong design documentation and communication skills. A desire to code automated Pipeline and AWS solutions vs. building them one off. Strong working experience of integrating automated end to end testing into CI/CD Pipelines. Knowledge of industry best practices for Dev Ops in a Cloud Environment. Experience working in an Agile environment. Willingness to mentor and advise other engineering team members. A solid understanding and passion for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE 3 to 7 years of experience in Dev Ops Proficient with Docker based container deployments to create shelf environments for dev teams and containerization of environment delivery for releases and managed the docker container in Kubernetes clustering. Experience integrating various tools such as Gitlab, JIRA, Confluence, Webex Teams and/or Slack to create seamless automated information sharing. Experience managing and deploying Server releases to Production. Experience supporting and monitoring and developing alerts for Production environments. EDUCATION Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.