DevOps Engineer
kemperJacksonville (FL)
About the role
DevOps Engineer Kemper is one of the nation's 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. Kemper's 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 or Jacksonville 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 5+ years of 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 Cloud
- Formation, Terraform, AWS CDK, or similar tools
- Solid understanding of public cloud, networking, IAM/security, and highly available infrastructure; AWS experience strongly preferredExperience 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 preferredExperience 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 does not include sponsorship.
- This position works in the Kemper office in a hybrid capacity.
The range for this position is $79500 to $132900. When determining candidate offers, we consider experience, skills, education, certifications, and geographic location among other factors. This job is eligible for Kemper benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, PTO, 401k, etc.).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.
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