UX DevOps Engineer (Hybrid - Boulder, CO)

Our Customer is a software vendor of cloud-based ERP that practices human capital management and financial management applications. They offer products and services that allow customers to oversee time tracking, procurement, employee data, financial accounting, and expense management at any time and anywhere. They continue to offer enterprise-level software solutions for financial management, human resources, and planning. Their proven methodology, expertise, community, tools, and education help ensure your organization’s success.

We are seeking a UX DevOps Engineer on a contract basis to help support our Customer's business needs. This role is hybrid (2 days onsite and 3 days remote/week) in Boulder, CO.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a key role in building and supporting the cloud-based infrastructure that powers the code build pipelines and hosts the tools and assets essential to the UX organization. Your work will directly contribute to innovation, design quality, and cohesion across the products.

You're passionate about coding and possess a strong drive to automate manual processes, leveraging new tools and technologies to enhance workflows. You understand how robust and scalable infrastructure can empower and scale Design teams.

Hours: 32 hours, 4 days/week

Responsibilities:

• Help design, build, and support secure and scalable cloud infrastructure to support code-build pipelines, tools, and assets for the UX organization.
• Deliver high-quality and secure infrastructure solutions, employing structured due diligence and risk analysis.
• Collaborate with the Design Technology team to innovate and develop tools and processes that effectively support the UX organization's scale.
• Act as a multiplier by working with cross-functional teams to identify and implement solutions that amplify the impact of UX.
• Integrate and support technology solutions, software, and hardware that enable Designers and Researchers to perform their work efficiently.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Standout colleague with excellent communication skills as well as the ability to prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong background in Linux/Unix fundamentals and/or System Administration.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts and protocols (e.g., SMTP, DNS, LDAP, NTP, HTTPS), servers, storage systems, operating systems, and databases, and how they interrelate.
• A passion for learning and growth in DevOps practices.
• A curiosity for Design, UX and UI.
• You are a self-motivated, dynamic teammate.
• Experience with AWS, including policy management, account access, allowlisting, and endpoint creation.
• Experience with Infrastructure automation, specifically within AWS environments.
• Solid understanding of Continuous Integration Frameworks, particularly Jenkins, including Jenkinsfile management and Docker image creation for Jenkins agents.
• Experience in scripting/programming languages such as Groovy and Bash (for Jenkins and general automation).
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform and/or CloudFormation (for AWS deployments).
• Experience with secure network design and implementation, including WAF (Web Application Firewall) management, specifically Cloudfront and Appsync WAFs.
• A solid understanding of serverless applications and AWS Lambda.
• Experience with GitHub Actions for CI/CD.

Preferred:

• Experience in Javascript, web frameworks (e.g. React), CSS, and HTML.
• Experience with RESTful services, service-oriented architecture, distributed systems, and microservices
• Curiosity about machine learning fundamentals
• Experience with multiple AWS services (S3, EC2, IAM, Cloudfront, Appsync).

We offer a competitive salary range for this position. Most candidates who join our team are hired at the median of this range, ensuring fair and equitable compensation based on experience and qualifications.

Contractor benefits are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements)

Benefits include: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability