Kforce has a client that is seeking a Cloud DevOps Engineer. Candidate will work hybrid onsite in Birmingham, Nashville, Atlanta or Charlotte. Summary: The Cloud DevOps Engineer will play a pivotal role in advancing our cloud strategy. The primary focus of this role will include developing, communicating and implementing cloud Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines which are robust and secure. This role will work closely with all stakeholders to create fully automated pipelines which support current DevOps best practices. Duties: * Partner with other developers and other information technology staff to oversee code releases * Articulates business needs and translate them into technology solutions * Designs and develops fully autonomous CI/CD pipelines which facilitate cloud deployments which includes automation of all infrastructure, services and application build and deployment * Ensures that all parts of the pipeline follow good software engineering practices to include unit tests and infrastructure tests * Research new technologies that will improve efficiency and effectiveness * Implements highly scalable applications * Maintains health of cloud-based production environments through monitoring and typical daily administration duties * Automates operational activities and tasks * Responds to performance issues identified by alerts and reported incidents * Build tools which reduce errors and improve our overall customer experiences * Assists in troubleshooting of production issues and ensure pipeline and infrastructure produces clear documentation and metrics which enables Root Cause Analysis * Develops and tests - Ansible Playbooks, Terraform Scripts, Packer Scripts and establish immutable infrastructure such that patches are an artifact of the past * Works with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security (InfoSec), Application Development to enable the organization to move to the cloud using complete automation