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Zeektek · 1 day ago

Devops Engineer - Hybrid - OKTA

Sacramento, CA

Contract

Hybrid

Senior Level

$120K/yr - $140K/yr

5+ years exp

Zeektek is seeking a Development Operations Engineer to improve developer productivity, system reliability, and deployment efficiency. The role involves building and maintaining OKTA solutions, implementing API gateway solutions, and designing CI/CD pipelines among other responsibilities.

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Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Building and maintaining OKTA solutions for multi-cohort, multi-entitlement identity management environments

Implementing API gateway solutions, including routing and rate limiting

Designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automation scripts, tooling, and user interfaces to support scalable, high-frequency deployments with minimal downtime

Leveraging commercial and open-source tools to manage deployments across test, production, and customer-facing environments

Driving Release Management strategy, framework design, and execution across Agile and Waterfall projects, including release calendars and zero-downtime initiatives

Evaluating and improving version control and configuration management tools to enable parallel development and real-time change impact analysis

Developing and maintaining DevOps standards, guidelines, best practices, and procedures (DevOps Playbook)

Defining and implementing test automation and continuous testing strategies that support test-driven development (TDD) across multiple platforms

Defining and supporting test environment management strategies and tooling to efficiently provision and manage environments

Partnering with Infrastructure teams to automate scaling and server resource management in support of CI/CD and zero-downtime goals

Collaborating effectively with cross-functional stakeholders in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

Monitoring industry trends and emerging tools to continuously improve DevOps practices

Participating in required after-hours activities, such as scheduled server patching

Supporting special projects and performing additional duties as assigned

Qualification

Okta developmentCI/CD frameworksLinux/UnixDevOps best practicesJenkinsAnsibleDockerKubernetesGitCommunication skillsProblem-solving skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in Information Science or a related discipline

5 years of IT experience, including at least 3 years of hands-on DevOps implementation

3 years of experience with Okta development and administration

Experience implementing solutions in multi-layered hybrid environments

Experience designing, implementing, and managing Release Management processes across business- and customer-facing environments

Experience architecting, designing, and implementing CI/CD frameworks in both legacy and modern environments

Experience with Linux/Unix operating systems (including Ubuntu) and at least one scripting language such as Python, Shell, Bash, PowerShell, or Perl

Hands-on experience with tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Nginx, HAProxy, ELK stack, or similar SDLC tools

Experience using Git and Git-based source control tools (e.g., Bitbucket)

Strong understanding of engineering best practices for building high-performance, reliable, and scalable web services

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Ability to read, write, speak, and understand the primary language(s) used in the workplace

Preferred

IIS and Windows Server experience

Experience working with microservices architectures and modern web technologies (Docker, REST, Node.js, React, JavaScript, HTML5, AJAX, Git, Big Data architectures)

Previous experience in the healthcare industry, particularly within an HMO environment