DevOps Engineer

Role description 

• Design, implement, and enhance our deployment automation based on Chef. We need proven experience writing chef recipes/cookbooks as well as designing and implementing an overall Chef based release and deployment process. 
• Use Jenkins to orchestrate builds as well as link to Sonar, Chef, Maven, Artifactory, etc. to build out the CI/CD pipeline.
• Support deployments of code into multiple lower environments. Supporting current processes needed with an emphasis on automating everything as soon as possible.
• Design and implement a Git based code management strategy that will support multiple environment deployments in parallel. Experience with automation for branch management, code promotions, and version management is a plus.

Requirements

Key Skills & Requirements:

• Strong experience with CI/CD tools – especially Jenkins, Chef, and XLR
• Proficiency in DevOps automation, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment pipelines
• Good understanding or exposure to AI-related tasks (nice to have)
• Must have Linux and SQL Skills 
• Proven ability to work independently and hit the ground running from Day 1
• Prior experience in supporting large-scale distributed systems and production environments
• Strong scripting and coding skills (e.g., Python, Java, Ruby, etc.)
• Must have ITSM (Change management, Incident management, and Problem ticket management) Knowledge  
• DevOps certification mandatory
• Good to have cloud certification.