DevOps Engineer

About This Role

This DevOps Engineer role is a strategic leadership position focused on transforming a governmental company's DevOps capabilities. It involves assessing current maturity, designing a target operating model, and driving a cultural shift towards DevSecOps, ensuring sustainable capability building within the client's team.

Responsibilities

• Conduct a comprehensive Current State Analysis of existing tools, practices, and security posture utilizing industry standards like DORA metrics to identify the current DevOps maturity level
• Identify operational gaps, user pain points, and security vulnerabilities, delivering a detailed "Current State Analysis Report" and "Security Maturity Assessment Report"
• Propose strategic recommendations and a phased DevSecOps Implementation Roadmap, outlining tasks, expected outcomes, and an "Action Plan" to bridge identified gaps
• Design and implement a DevSecOps Framework that includes detailed policies, standards, governance models, and interaction models outlining roles and responsibilities
• Develop an "Application Security Service Catalog" and integrate security best practices (Shift-Left) into the pipeline, ensuring compliance with governance policies
• Establish rigorous release governance policies to ensure strict adherence to standards and prepare compliance reports
• Lead the implementation of changes, driving a cultural shift in mindset toward collaboration, automation, and shared responsibility between development and operations teams
• Provide hands-on coaching to build internal team capability, ensuring knowledge transfer and sustainable improvements beyond the consultancy period
• Develop and deliver "Training and Awareness Program Materials" tailored to different roles to ensure the seamless adoption of new tools and processes
• Oversee the design of secure CI/CD pipelines on Azure DevOps, ensuring the automation of builds, testing, and database procedures
• Implement Vault for advanced secrets management, ensuring secure access control, secret rotation, and data protection policies
• Lead the automation of infrastructure using Terraform or Azure Resource Manager (ARM) to ensure consistency and scalability
• Define a "Monitoring and Reporting Framework" to provide full visibility into security and operational metrics, optimizing performance and minimizing downtime

Requirements

• Proven experience conducting DevOps maturity assessments (DORA) and defining target operating models (TOM) for enterprise or government clients
• Deep expertise in Azure DevOps (Boards, Repos, Pipelines)
• Strong knowledge of Vault for secrets management
• Hands-on experience with IaC tools (Terraform/ARM) and scripting (Shell)
• Demonstrated ability to lead cultural change, mentor teams, and manage stakeholders in a high-compliance environment