Title: Senior DevOps Engineer / Lead
Location: Schaumburg, IL or Irvine, CA
Hire Type/Length: Contract/CTH, 6+ months
PROJECT: This project is part of a larger initiative called HCP (Healthcare Platforms), which is focused on building a cloud-based integration platform that unlocks data for consuming applications on digital and marketing channels adhering to this organization's standards of Security, Availability, Reliability, and Performance.
There are four key objectives:
The successful candidate will be a servant leader who develops and supports a learning organization model through coaching, training, and mentorship. The successful candidate will be one that can adapt as necessary for unintended consequences of this change initiative and one that understands the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team. Documentation and community support are a part of this role.
Candidates will work in a DevOps team environment and are expected to work on both tactical and strategic assignments. Since the team is very young in its adoption of DevOps principles there is still a fair amount of manual maintenance work. Candidates are expected to handle the manual work while figuring out how to automate it.
Required Qualifications:
- Kafka (Streams, Connect)
- Azure Data Factory
- Sprint Boot, Batch, Cloud Config
- Azure Key Vault
- Azure Cosmos, Search, SQL, Data Lake Storage, Blob Storage, Redis
- Azure Front Door, App Gateway, APIM, B2C
- NodeJS, Apollo, GraphQL
- Docker, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Databricks, Synapse
- GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps
- Terraform, Helm
- SonarQube, Fortify
- Apache Maven
- AccelQ, JUnit
- Splunk, App Insights, New Relic, Grafana, Dynatrace
- ServiceNow
EEO Employer
Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Employee Services Department at or 844-463-6178.
Location: Schaumburg, IL or Irvine, CA
Hire Type/Length: Contract/CTH, 6+ months
PROJECT: This project is part of a larger initiative called HCP (Healthcare Platforms), which is focused on building a cloud-based integration platform that unlocks data for consuming applications on digital and marketing channels adhering to this organization's standards of Security, Availability, Reliability, and Performance.
There are four key objectives:
- Build a unified middleware platform for this organization
- Achieve data isolation from source of truth systems so that the organization can adopt ELDM
- Adopt an API first mentality to build discoverable, and reusable, domain-based microservices
- Simplify API onboarding by providing self-service capabilities to the broader organization that help accelerate product development
The successful candidate will be a servant leader who develops and supports a learning organization model through coaching, training, and mentorship. The successful candidate will be one that can adapt as necessary for unintended consequences of this change initiative and one that understands the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team. Documentation and community support are a part of this role.
Candidates will work in a DevOps team environment and are expected to work on both tactical and strategic assignments. Since the team is very young in its adoption of DevOps principles there is still a fair amount of manual maintenance work. Candidates are expected to handle the manual work while figuring out how to automate it.
Required Qualifications:
- MUST be a strong DevOps leader and help drive the DevOps strategy and maturity of our digital products in an organization very immature in this space
- MUST have strong Kubernetes administration and deployment experience
- 5 years of IT experience on web-based products
- 3 years of experience working on large scale, multiple team projects
- 3 years of experience with Agile methodologies and Test Driven Development
- 3 years of continuous integration experience (for example tools like Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Docker).
- 2 years of experience in at least 1 high level programming language such as C, C#, C++ or Java
- 1 years of experience with programmatic interaction with a relational database, preferably a recent version of SQL Server.
- Be available for weekend production support, as needed (on rotation)
- Extensive experience working on DevOps within the Azure public cloud.
- Ability to lead and mentor other DevOps engineers on the team
- Extensive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience, using tools such as Terraform
- Configuration as code experience
- Infrastructure experience
- Operations experience
- Experience working on DevOps within OpenShift
- Experience working on DevOps within Google Cloud Platform
- Experience working in a multi-cloud environment
- Git (contributions on Github++)
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) experience
- Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) experience
- Database change automation experience
- Real-time automated metrics and reporting experience
- Experience using or automating some or all of the following technologies (sample):
- Kafka (Streams, Connect)
- Azure Data Factory
- Sprint Boot, Batch, Cloud Config
- Azure Key Vault
- Azure Cosmos, Search, SQL, Data Lake Storage, Blob Storage, Redis
- Azure Front Door, App Gateway, APIM, B2C
- NodeJS, Apollo, GraphQL
- Docker, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Databricks, Synapse
- GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps
- Terraform, Helm
- SonarQube, Fortify
- Apache Maven
- AccelQ, JUnit
- Splunk, App Insights, New Relic, Grafana, Dynatrace
- ServiceNow
EEO Employer
Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Employee Services Department at or 844-463-6178.