DevOps Architect

Neos is seeking a DevOps Architect for a long-term contract role for our client.
***REMOTE- ONLY CANDIDATES CURRENTLY RESIDING IN THE U.S. WILL BE CONSIDERED***
No calls, no emails, please respond directly to the "apply" link with your resume and contact details.
Must-have skills:
1. GitHub & Source Control Management (experience 3-5 years)
Strong Git/GitHub skills, including branching strategies, pull requests, repository administration, permissions, and helping transition delivery processes from Azure DevOps to GitHub.
2. CI/CD & DevOps Automation (exp 5-7 years)
Hands-on experience designing and supporting automated build, validation, packaging, deployment, and promotion pipelines for Java applications.
3. Configuration & Release Management (exp. 5-7 years)
Strong understanding of controlled builds, configuration management, release governance, environment promotion, traceability, and production controls. This is particularly important because your CM/NSK team remains the gatekeeper
4. ADO (3-5 years)
What type of education is needed for this position? BA/BS
Responsibilities

• CoolGen / CA Gen experience or experience supporting comparable legacy application platforms.
• GitHub Actions experience for building modern CI/CD workflows.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience with tools such as Terraform or equivalent.
• Cloud platform experience, particularly Azure
• Java build tools, such as Maven or Gradle, beyond basic Java deployment knowledge.
• Artifact/repository management, such as GitHub Packages, Artifactory, Nexus, or equivalent.
• Automated testing integration, including incorporating unit, integration, security, and quality checks into CI/CD pipelines.
• DevSecOps / security scanning experience, including integrating code, dependency, and vulnerability scanning into pipelines.
• Environment and configuration automation, including secrets, environment variables, configuration promotion, and environment-specific deployment controls.
• Enterprise modernization/replatform experience, particularly supporting a legacy-to-Java transition while both platforms operate concurrently.
• Healthcare/Medicaid experience or experience in another highly controlled enterprise environment.

Primary Job Duties / Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical liaison between the DevOps, Configuration Management (CM)/NSK, application development, infrastructure, and release teams to coordinate build, deployment, configuration, and source-control activities throughout the NSK Claims replatform.
• Design, implement, maintain, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines supporting the new Java-based NSK platform, including automated build, validation, packaging, deployment, and environment promotion processes. [Past
• Support the transition from Azure DevOps (ADO) to GitHub, including repository structure, branching strategies, pull-request workflows, access controls, source-code management standards, and migration of applicable DevOps processes.
• Translate existing CM/NSK configuration, build, release, and governance controls into the future-state Java/GitHub delivery model, ensuring appropriate traceability, versioning, approvals, and controlled promotion across environments.
• Support both legacy and modern delivery environments during the replatform transition, ensuring that existing NSK/CoolGen build and configuration processes continue to operate effectively while new Java-based processes are implemented
• Establish and maintain automated deployment and release processes, including integration of testing, code-quality validation, security scanning, artifact management, and other required quality gates within CI/CD workflows.
• Troubleshoot build, configuration, pipeline, deployment, and environment issues, partnering with development, CM/NSK, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to identify root causes and implement sustainable resolutions.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation and operational procedures for source control, branching, builds, deployments, configuration management, release promotion, rollback, and support processes.
• Promote DevOps and configuration-management best practices, identifying opportunities to reduce manual activities, strengthen release controls, improve deployment reliability, and increase automation across the software delivery lifecycle.
• Support knowledge transfer and operational readiness so the DevOps and CM/NSK teams can effectively own, operate, and support the future-state Java/GitHub platform after transition.

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Job Num: 12002