DevOps Engineer

$70,000 - $90,000/Yr

Excelacom - Denver, CO

Full-time - Entry Level

Denver, CO

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Excelacom is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team in Greenwood Village, CO. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the infrastructure and processes that support our development and operations teams. You will collaborate closely with software developers, system operators, and other IT staff to manage code releases and ensure the smooth deployment of applications. Your expertise in automation, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), and cloud technologies will be critical in driving our operational excellence and efficiency. As a DevOps Engineer, you will work on various projects throughout your career with Excelacom. You will decompose key business problems to identify value areas and structure and implement complex technology solutions for our clients. Your role will involve creating innovative and differentiated offerings that stay relevant with market demand and technology evolution. You will deliver advisory services to Senior Management and above in support of technology-enabled business changes, manage and deliver technology projects including application development, integration, data migration, and testing for IT organizations. Daily interactions with client staff will be essential to understand key operational issues and identify opportunities for improvement in their operations and technology landscape. You will leverage Excelacom's domestic and international assets and expertise to bring new ideas to clients, supporting the development of improved capabilities across business processes, people, and technology. Additionally, you will be responsible for developing business cases and implementation roadmaps to support investment decisions, providing project management and change management support on transformation projects, and identifying and qualifying additional business opportunities. Strong communication skills are vital as you will also prepare solutions and proposals to present to clients.

Responsibilities

• Decompose key business problems to identify value areas and structure and implement complex technology solutions for the client.
• Create innovative and differentiated offerings, staying relevant and in sync with market demand and technology evolution.
• Deliver advisory services to Senior Management and above in support of technology-enabled business changes.
• Manage and deliver technology projects including application development, integration, data migration, testing, etc. for IT organizations.
• Meet with client staff on a daily basis to understand key issues with how they operate today and identify opportunities for improvement in their operations and technology landscape.
• Leverage Excelacom's domestic and international assets and expertise to bring new ideas to clients.
• Support the development of improved capabilities in clients across business processes, people, and technology.
• Develop business cases and implementation roadmaps to support investment decisions.
• Provide project management and change management support on large- or small-scale transformation projects.
• Identify and qualify additional business opportunities.
• Prepare solutions and proposals and present to clients.
• Manage cloud infrastructure and system administration and work with teams to identify and repair issues as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science or related field
• Prior consulting experience in an agile environment with a leading strategy firm, consulting practice, or consulting technology firm
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)
• Highly collaborative, team-oriented with strong stakeholder management skills
• Ability to lead project working groups and possesses strong facilitation and data gathering skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact with technical and non-technical personnel
• 5+ years of prior experience working in DevOps
• Experience developing CI/CD toolkits and pipelines
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell
• Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
• Strong knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with version control systems like Git
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI
• Knowledge of monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack
• Experience working with AWS cloud environment.

Nice-to-haves

• Prior experience in Telecommunications, Media, or Cable is highly preferred
• Past success in generating new business with existing clients
• Good time management skills
• Knowledge of Voice, Data, Video, Wireless technologies

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Life and AD&D insurance
• 401k
• Generous paid time off policies