This is a contract with a great organization. As a contractor for Smith Johnson, you are eligible for medical, dental, life, disability. Smith Johnson pays for 70% of your medical and dental and 100% of life and disability. The contract is also eligible for PTO/holiday accrued monthly. You are also eligible for a 3% retirement matching plan. Smith Johnson believes in taking care of our contractors.

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
• 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