DevOps Engineer

Kemper•Jacksonville, FL

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

Kemper is hiring a DevOps Engineer to work from its Birmingham, Alabama, or Jacksonville, Florida, office in a hybrid capacity. The role is part of a team that designs, implements, maintains, and improves enterprise DevOps and platform engineering capabilities across on-premise and AWS cloud environments. The team supports continuous integration and automated releases, source-code and artifact management, container platforms, infrastructure automation, security tooling, and shared platforms used by application development teams. The position focuses on maintaining secure, reliable, and scalable engineering platforms while improving the efficiency of development, testing, infrastructure provisioning, and product releases. In a dynamic, fast-paced agile environment, the DevOps Engineer partners with application, cloud, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to automate repeatable work, troubleshoot platform issues, and continuously improve developer experience.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Systems/Technology, or equivalent.
At least 5 years of DevOps-related work experience in development or infrastructure automation.
Understanding of DevOps principles and patterns in an enterprise organization.
Hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud infrastructure.
Strong understanding of infrastructure as code (IaC), configuration management, and automation practices.
Understanding of source-code management processes using Git and enterprise Git platforms.
Programming or scripting experience in one or more of Python, Bash/PowerShell, .NET, or Java.
Experience creating and maintaining code-defined infrastructure using CloudFormation, Terraform, AWS CDK, or similar tools.
Experience developing solutions with AWS services and enterprise DevOps tools.
Solid understanding of public cloud, networking, IAM/security, and highly available infrastructure.
Experience with remote administration and automated configuration of Linux and Windows systems.
Strong troubleshooting, communication, documentation, collaboration, and customer-service skills.

Nice To Haves

AWS experience is strongly preferred.
Experience with containers and Kubernetes/EKS, including deployments, configuration, troubleshooting, and operational support.
Build automation experience, including multi-stage pipelines, shared automation, credentials, and deployment dependencies.
Experience with Git-based source-code platforms and artifact, code-quality, and related tooling such as Artifactory, Xray, and SonarQube.

Responsibilities

Ensure the quality, reliability, security, and efficiency of DevOps platforms and SDLC tooling.
Maintain and improve CI/CD processes supporting automated software builds, testing, releases, and deployments.
Design and automate cloud and hybrid infrastructure, including build and test environments, AWS services, container platforms, and deployment workflows.
Provide automation, CI/CD, source control, artifact management, and cloud platform expertise to Application Development teams.
Monitor, troubleshoot, and report on the health, availability, capacity, and performance of build, deployment, and shared DevOps infrastructure.
Support and administer enterprise engineering platforms, including Jenkins, GitLab, JFrog Artifactory/Xray, SonarQube, and AWS-based services.
Support Kubernetes/EKS workloads and platform services, including deployment, configuration, access, observability, and troubleshooting.
Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code and automation for AWS infrastructure, Linux and Windows systems, and repeatable platform operations.
Partner with security and infrastructure teams to implement vulnerability management, secure configuration, access controls, compliance requirements, and hardened operating-system images.
Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and project documentation for platform changes, builds, releases, and automation.