*** NOTE: NCDST's current telework policy is a mix of in-person office work and telework days per week. Please be clear with candidates that this is NOT a full telework position at this time. ***

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  The North Carolina Department of the State Treasurer is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to lead the creation of DevOps automations and establish the processes involved in the migration of vital web applications to the cloud and then maintenance and production support of all DevOps related activities once those web applications have been migrated up to the cloud.
• You will help select/design an appropriate code branching strategy. You will help guide the transition from on-premise to cloud from the very early stages. You will create pipelines to build and deploy .Net projects to Azure. You will define and provide ongoing maintenance and improvements to the new SDLC processes going forward.
• Excellent communication skills are as important as technical acumen to this role.
• Please pay close attention to the skills section and the required/desired experience levels of those skills.

Skill Matrix

• Ability to lead modernization of legacy processes around build and deployment automation, code merges, related monitoring, maintenance, & support Required 5 Years
• Ability to train and coach team members of all skill levels on migration steps and ongoing SDLC practices Required 5 Years
• Ability to create written training materials & plans for maintaining/extending the process framework as the number of microservices expands over time Required 5 Years
• Fluency in scripting tools/languages (Powershell/Azure CLI/Bash/YAML) Required 5 Years
• Experience with Azure DevOps/TFS, Azure Pipelines, JIRA, work items or similar issue tracking mechanisms and their role in the overall picture Required 4 Years
• Experience with tools or technologies such as Bicep, Terraform, Ansible, etc. Required 4 Years
• Experienced with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Required 4 Years
• Experienced with creating adaptable, repeatable, automation solutions with an attention to mitigating configuration drift and change management Required 4 Years
• Devops experience with large enterprise applications and microservice architectures Required 4 Years
• Strong knowledge of certificates, DNS, AD, load balancers, firewalls and Azure related security matters Required 3 Years
• Experienced with containers and orchestrators (Docker, Podman, Kubernetes) Highly desired 3 Years
• Experience with hybrid cloud/on-premise deployment environments Highly desired 2 Years
• Experience with DevSecOps and “shift-left” security tools and practices Highly desired 2 Years
• Experience with automated unit and integration testing tools (MS Test, xUnit, nUnit) as well as infrastructure testing and monitoring Highly desired 2 Years
• Experience with deployment scenarios in microservice based architectures Highly desired 2 Years
• Microsoft DevOps Engineer Certification Nice to have 2 Years