Sr.DevOPS/Cloud Engineer (RQ10411)

DevSecOps, CI/CD Automation & Engineering Quality – 35%

• Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, etc., for backend services, including automated testing, container builds, artifact management, and deployment approvals.

·      Implement load-testing and performance benchmarking using tools such as Locust or JMeter to validate system scalability under peak credential issuance and verification loads.

• Enforce SDLC, code quality, and DevOps best practices—including code reviews, secure Integrate DevSecOps practices into all CI/CD workflows, embedding security scanning, SAST/DAST, secret detection, and container image scanning into pipelines.
• Experience with scripting languages like Python and Bash
• Manage secure configuration of infrastructure including TLS certificate rotation, secret management, encryption policies, network segmentation, and hardened OS baselines.
• Work with teams to implement identity and access management, privileged access controls, threat modeling, and continuous compliance monitoring.
• Conduct regular infrastructure hardening, patching, library updates, dependency audits, and vulnerability remediation cycles for wallet, agent, and backend components.
• Ensure alignment with digital identity trust frameworks (PCTF, NIST, eIDAS) and enterprise cybersecurity policies.

Cloud Architecture, Platform Engineering & Infrastructure-as-Code – 30%

·      An expert in architecting, building, and maintaining Azure cloud infrastructure that supports the digital credential platform, ensuring high availability, resilience, and secure multi?environment deployments.

• Build and manage containerized workloads using Docker/Podman, applying secure image management, registry automation, and runtime hardening.      
• Design and operate Kubernetes production clusters (AKS/OpenShift), including workload orchestration, scaling policies, RBAC, network rules, and automated failover.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure?as?code using Terraform, Ansible, and related tooling to ensure consistent, auditable, and automated environment provisioning.
• Support backend components interacting with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) through secure connections and optimized queries.
• Operate and integrate event?driven architectures, caching mechanism, job schedulers and asynchronous messaging systems.
• In-depth knowledge of Azure networking, VNETs, ingress controllers, firewalls, and identity integrations to support secure and compliant services.
• Proven experience designing modern architectural patterns to support delivery of complex IT solutions that are reliable, secure, responsive and scalable.
• Experience applying industry cloud and security standards and best practices to your work that can be adopted by others.

Observability, Monitoring & System Insights – 20%

• Implement and maintain observability stacks using Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Log Analytics, or equivalent tools, ensuring end?to?end visibility across services.
• Design and implement Application Performance Monitoring (APM) to gain visibility into production workloads deployed in the cloud.

·      Define dashboards, alerting rules, incident playbooks, SLIs/SLOs, and health checks to support high?availability identity workloads.

• Conduct root?cause analysis and drive long?term reliability improvements across cloud, container, and other infrastructure components.

Collaboration, Documentation & Agile Delivery – 10%

• Work closely with architects, developers, automation engineers, cybersecurity teams, and enterprise stakeholders to ensure cohesive solution delivery.
• Produce and maintain documentation including diagrams, deployment architectures, operational runbooks, method of procedures, and troubleshooting playbooks.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and contribute to planning, release coordination, and cross?team technical alignment.
• Mentor team members in cloud engineering, DevOps automation, Kubernetes operations, and secure deployment practices.

Digital Credentials and Trust Services – 5%

• Demonstrated experienced with implementing (deployment and configuration) open-source OpenWallet Foundation products, including ACA-Py and its plugins.
• Has demonstrated understanding and experience with operating and supporting a digital credentials platform in a enterprise cloud based deployment. 
• Has experience working with related Open-Source community.

Closing Date/Time: 2026-02-06, 12:00 p.m. EST

Max submission: 1 (one)

5 days onsite

Must Have:

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