Sr. DevOps Administrator
NAIC

Job Description:

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has an exciting opportunity for a Sr. DevOps Administrator. The Sr. DevOps Administrator position is focused on the continued development, deployment and maintenance of the CI/CD pipeline for application development teams in the NAIC's Filing Solutions department within our Information Technology Division. This resource will work with Software Engineers and Solutions Architects to improve and adapt the pipeline to meet ongoing security requirements, coordinate application area testing/implementation and work with professionals in IT Ops and Security to communicate and coordinate changes.

This position is based out of the NAIC's Kansas City, MO office. This is a full-time hybrid-remote position, in a positive and flexible environment. Residency within 100 miles of the Kansas City, Missouri office is required, along with in-office work as scheduled.

Key Responsibilities

• Writing, maintaining, documenting, and diagnosing CI/CD pipelines in GitLab written in Python and Linux shell scripting utilizing a variety of tools including Maven, NPM, SonarQube, Nexus IQ, Docker, Helm, Kubernetes, etc.
• Writing, execution, upgrades, and monitoring of AWS infrastructure assets stood up in AWS via TerraForm/Atlantis.
• Utilization of DynaTrace and its supported protocols to monitor software and hardware assets within AWS and Oracle OCI clouds. This should include the ability to stand up and maintain synthetic web transactions to probe system up times, review logs, write dashboards, and in general utilize and tune DynaTrace, Slack, and VictorOps (i.e. Splunk On-Call) for monitoring, escalation, and intervention.
• Aiding and participating in Release Management activities coordinated through JIRA Agile boards.
• Incorporating security concerns and scans into multiple points of the software development, release, and monitoring workflows.
• Some SQL skills needed to investigate database issues.
• Familiarity with message queues, servers, Tyk and Okta.
• An eye toward automating manual and repetitive activities with workflows that combine human and machine steps that remain compliant with SOC1 and SOC2 controls.
• Interfacing with Systems teams on diagnosing infrastructure and software issues and making recommendations to one or both teams on ways to improve security, stability, performance, and operational costs.

Management Responsibilities

• This position does not have direct reports.
  

Education, Certifications, Licenses, & Experience

Bachelor's degree (B.A.) in Computer Science or Associates degree in Applied Science specific to Computer Science, and eight plus years related work experience; or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

Systems & Technology Requirements

• GitLab CI, Terraform for AWS, Helm, Kubernetes, Python, Docker
• AWS Infrastructure Resources, Dynatrace (or similar application monitoring tool)
• Tyk and Okta

Travel Requirements

Must be able and willing to travel to locations throughout the United States and with such frequency as necessary to meet the needs of this position and the Association.

Compensation

Salary offer range is $105,150 - $137,000, commensurate with experience and education.

Interested in learning more about the amazing benefits the NAIC offers? Visit our Benefits page for more information.

The NAIC is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer

Applicants for all positions are considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin or ancestry, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, military or veteran status, disability, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

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