DevOps Engineer

Location: Tampa, FL, United States; Hybrid

The DevOps Engineer will be instrumental in bridging the gap between development and operations, ensuring the smooth and efficient delivery of high-quality software products.  This position will based hybrid in Tampa, FL and the ideal candidate will be seasoned in Docker and Terraform with significant AWS ECS/EKS experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaboration: Work closely with developers, QA engineers, and IT operations to streamline processes and improve communication across all stages of the software development lifecycle.
• Continuous Integration/Delivery (CI/CD): Implement and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to ensure that application is automatically deployed, promoting rapid feedback and iterative development.
• Automation: Develop and manage automation scripts to deploy, manage, and monitor applications, infrastructure, and configuration, reducing manual intervention and enhancing reliability.  Leverage AI and predictive techniques to reduce manual coding effort.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Utilize tools such as Terraform to define and provision infrastructure through code, ensuring consistency and repeatability.
• Monitoring/Alerting: Set up and manage logging, monitoring, and alerting tools to track application performance, identify issues, and optimize system efficiency.
• Security Practices: Implement security-best practices within the CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure to safeguard our applications and data.
• Containerization: Leverage Docker for containerization and manage containerized applications using AWS ECS to ensure scalable and efficient deployment.
• Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for all automation, CI/CD processes, and infrastructure setups.

Skill Requirements: 

• Five (5) years of experience in a DevOps Engineer role
• Technical Proficiency: Strong experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub, etc.
• Scripting and Programming: Proficiency in scripting languages like Python, Bash, or PowerShell.  Java development background is preferred. 
• Cloud Expertise: Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, specifically AWS is required.
• Containerization: Proven experience with the containerization tool Docker and experienced with AWS ECS/EKS to manage containerized applications effectively.
• Cloud Architecture: Experience designing systems in the cloud such as serverless (e.g. AWS lambda, fargate), queuing (e.g. sqs/sns), data storage (e.g. rds, s3)
• Networking: Strong grasp of networking concepts including VPC and Subnetting, firewalls, DNS, http/https, tcp/ip
• IaC: Experience provisioning cloud infrastructure using Terraform is required.
• Collaboration Tools: Familiarity with version control systems (e.g. Git) and collaboration platforms (e.g. Jira, Confluence).
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a passion for optimizing processes and infrastructure.
• Continuous Learning: Enthusiasm for staying up to date with the latest industry trends, tools, and technologies.

Education/Certification Requirements:

•  Bachelor’s Degree required, preferably in CS or MIS

Additional Requirements:

• Ability to work on-call to support late night deployments.  
• Ability to work across all Time Zones and willing to cover off-hour deployments on a regular basis.
• Prospective candidates must be able to pass a background check and drug screening
• This position is expected to be Hybrid and local to Tampa, FL.

At MHK we help health plans and pharmacy benefit managers deliver optimal care management across every member’s health journey.  We do this through state-of-the-art technology that provides critical insights from member enrollment and maintenance through every stage of care and compliance. 

Benefits Snapshot:

• Medical, vision, and dental plans for full time employees
• 401(k) offered with a generous match
• Benefits begin on first day of the month following employment   
• Exercise/Health Club reimbursement opportunity 
• Monthly dependent care reimbursement opportunity 
• Short Term and Long-Term disability 
• Basic Term Life and AD&D Insurance 
• Pet Wellness program  
• Generous PTO and Company Paid Holidays   

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The DevOps Engineer will be instrumental in bridging the gap between development and operations, ensuring the smooth and efficient delivery of high-quality software products. This position will based hybrid in Tampa, FL and the ideal candidate will be seasoned in Docker and Terraform with significant AWS ECS/EKS experience.