DevOps Engineer

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Kemper is one of the nations leading specialized insurers. Our success is a direct reflection of the talented and diverse people who make a positive difference in the lives of our customers every day. We believe a high-performing culture valuable opportunities for personal development and professional challenge and a healthy work-life balance can be highly motivating and productive. Kempers products and services are making a real difference to our customers who have unique and evolving needs. By joining our team you are helping to provide experience to our stakeholders that delivers on our promises.

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.

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

Qualifications

• 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/ 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
• 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
• Strong troubleshooting communication documentation collaboration and customer-service skills
• This position works in the Kemper office in a hybrid capacity.

Kemper is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin veteran disability status or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We are committed to supporting diversity and equality across our organization and we work diligently to maintain a workplace free from discrimination.

Kemper does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Kemper and Kemper will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.

Kemper will never request personal information such as your social security number or banking information via text or email. Additionally Kemper does not use external messaging applications like WireApp or Skype to communicate with candidates. If you receive such a message delete it.

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