DevOps Engineer

Kemper•Birmingham, AL

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Kemper has an immediate need for a skilled and motivated DevOps Engineer to work from our Birmingham office. This role works as part of a team responsible for designing, implementing, maintaining, and improving enterprise DevOps and platform engineering capabilities across on-premise and AWS cloud environments. The team supports continuous integration and automated release processes, source-code management, artifact management, container platforms, infrastructure automation, security tooling, and the shared platforms used by application development teams. The focus will be on maintaining secure, reliable, and scalable engineering platforms while improving the efficiency of development, testing, infrastructure provisioning, and product release processes. The DevOps Engineer will work in a dynamic, fast-paced agile environment and will partner closely with application, cloud, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to automate repeatable work, troubleshoot platform issues, and continuously improve developer experience.

Requirements

Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Systems/Technology, or equivalent and/or DevOps related work experience (development or infrastructure automation)
Understanding of the 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
Demonstrated understanding of source-code management processes using Git and enterprise Git platforms
Programming or scripting experience in one or more of the following: Python, Bash/PowerShell, .NET, or Java
Experience creating and maintaining code-defined infrastructure using technologies such as 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; AWS experience strongly preferred
Experience with remote administration and automated configuration of Linux and Windows systems
Strong troubleshooting, communication, documentation, collaboration, and customer-service skills

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Ensure quality, reliability, security, and efficiency of DevOps platforms and SDLC tooling
Maintain and improve CI/CD processes that support 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 such as 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 appropriate technical documentation, operational procedures, and project documentation for platform changes, builds, releases, and automation