DevOps Architect

Mindlance is a national recruiting company which partners with many of the leading employers in IT, financial services, engineering, semiconductor, clinical and pharmaceutical domains. You can learn more about us at   www.mindlance.com . Position Details: Position: DevOps Architect Location: Frisco, TX Duration: 03+ months Contract to Hire Description: · Under general direction of the Director of Platform Engineering or other director level associate, operating as a champion for DevOps practices across the organization, providing solution design and implementation guidance, coaching, mentoring, and technical support. Experience Required: · 3+ Years of experience in a Development Operations organization leading, administering, building and maintaining an automation environment · Knowledge of Service Oriented Architectures · Track record of delivering applications and cloud-based infrastructure delivery in an agile environment · Experience with automated deployment, continuous integration, and release engineering tools · Knowledge of software development and software testing methodologies · Knowledge of cloud environments and how to implement cloud architectures · Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, auto-scaling and auto-healing concepts · Knowledge in various branching/merging methodologies and release procedures · Ability to communicate clearly and concisely and a flexible mindset to handle a quickly changing culture Technical skills: · Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, etc.) · Experience with Microsoft tool chains (.NET, VSO/VSTS, Powershell) · Experience with Infrastructure as Code (ARM Templates/Terraform/CloudFormation) · Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment tools (Bamboo, VSTS, TeamCity) · Experience with Monitoring Tools (Splunk, ELK, DataDog) · Experience with Scripting (Powershell, Bash, Python, etc) · Experience with configuration management (Chef, Ansible, or Puppet) · Experience with Git based workflows · Experience working with REST APIs Our stack: · Azure Cloud PaaS · Visual Studio Team Services · .NET / Angular2 · Azure Resource Manager Templates · Powershell / Azure Automation Responsibilities: · Serve as a champion/SME for DevOps practices across the organization, providing coaching, mentoring, and technical support · Guide design and Implementation of DevOps solutions · Bring new and emerging concepts in DevOps to our organization All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.