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Client: State of Utah

Job ID: 142346

Posting title: DevOps - KSSOW 25036 DevOps Engineer - DTS - Department of Government Operations - IT

Job Location: 140 East 300 South, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84111

Projected start date: 06/09/2025

Projected end date: 5 Years from projected start date

Candidate must be local

Tentative interview date: May 19th

40% onsite 60% remote

Local candidates

Onsite Interview Format

KSSOW 25036

Preferred/required skills:

• Minimum of 5 years designing and maintaining technical infrastructure.
• Experience with transitioning monolithic application to service oriented architectures
• Enterprise Java experience
  
  

Scoring:

• 20% - Cost
• 35% - Duration and Quality of experience as Technical Infrastructure
• 35% - Duration and Quality of experience transforming systems into Service Oriented Architecture.
• 10% - Experience with an eligibility and enrollment system, or financial package such as collections system
  
  

Required skills;

• Minimum of 5 years designing and maintaining technical infrastructure.
• Experience with transitioning monolithic application to service oriented architectures
• Enterprise Java experience
• Familiar with building Docker containers and creating deployment pipelines for multiple environments
• Preferred skills:
• Experience with RedHat (Linux)
• Experience with Open Source
• Experience with Amazon Web Services
• Experience with Websphere
• DB2 experience
• Java Built environments
• Experience with Maven
• Experience with Jenkins
  
  

Roles/Responsibilities:

• Cross and merge the barriers that exist between software development, testing and operations teams while keeping existing networks in mind as they design, plan and test.
• Project management, best practices and workflows
• Tools such as JIRA, GITHub, AWS DevOps
• Assist developers in troubleshooting:
• Applications
• Migrations
• Conversions
• Deployments/publications
• Additional skills beyond system administrator
• Security roles:
• Enforcing governance and best practices through security guardrails
• Adhere to all State of Utah security definitions
• Evaluate logs
• Follow specific procedures and document for knowledge transfer
• Work in conjunction with like-minded departments and closely with developers and other Devops personnel throughout the State of Utah to successfully deploy applications and ensure consistent and repeatable practices.
• Collaborate with software developers, system operators and other IT staff members to manage code releases and cloud infrastructure.
• Use leadership skills to team build and train others by being the example through showing self-motivation, professionalism and adaptability to change.
• Devops will require additional skills beyond system administrator

• Work with developers to understand workflows, identify resources, system requirements, create Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scripts to provision the resources, and create automated CI/CD pipelines, across all environments.
• Work closely with Developers, Sys Admins, and Cloud Architects on best practices
• Provision resources in cloud environments
• Maintain and troubleshoot the health of applications and infrastructure
• Build and maintain consistent environments
• Manage the reliability of application infrastructure and environments, such as monitoring and identifying ways to make improvements
• Ensure consistent and accurate billing
• Work with Development Managers to provide accurate cost estimates
• Enforce security governance and best practices in security guardrails
• Develop, build, test, and maintain Cloud solutions by implementing reusable scripts and components
• Translate technical and business requirements
• Assist with all stages of testing
• Participate in application strategic project-planning meetings
• In addition to providing guidance and expertise on system options, risk, impact and costs vs. benefits, create and share operational requirements and development forecasts to allow for timely and accurate planning of projects.
• Ensure environments meet state, agency, and regulatory policies and best practices
• Help create requirements and procedures for implementing routine maintenance
• Follow department change management processes
• Disaster Recovery (DR) and Replication, including DBA in the planning process, as needed.
• Assist in developing and preserving system knowledge, decisions, processes, etc. by maintaining documentation in a team area. This aids in training, passing on knowledge, and maintaining continuity in the eREP system.
  
  
Skills:

• Must have scripting knowledge to build and maintain infrastructure as code (ex: Terraform, BASH, Cloud Formation, Python)
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
• Knowledge of:
• API's
• Key management systems
• Available cloud services/features
• Networking and firewalls
• Possess an associate-level cloud certification or be certified within one year from date initial cloud access
• Understand various development methodologies
  
  

Cleo Consulting is an equal opportunity employer (Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled)