LOE#2025-0999 - Cloud DevOps Engineer

Job Title : Cloud DevOps Engineer

LOE# 2025-0999

Location : Sacramento CA

Project Introduction :

The consultant will undertake duties as a Dev OPS Engineer and Solution architect and support several critical applications that are part of the myCalPERS system. The consultant will evaluate on-prem applications that the ARTS team support and recommend upgrades as well as improvements to the application CI / CD pipelines to ensure adherence to the most recent Platform Engineering guidelines and standards. The consultant will also provide expertise in creating technical documentation and provide knowledge transfer to the Application Release, Testing, and Scheduling team. The consultant will collaborate with other team members on projects of a complex nature or broad scope.

The consultant will act as a Subject-Matter Expert (SME), assisting ARTS technical team members in the design, architecture, analysis, troubleshooting, review, and documentation of products supported by the ARTS Unit. The products are both on-prem and in the Azure or AWS cloud. The consultant may also act as the technical subject-matter expert on complex projects or may participate with other team members on projects of a complex nature or broad scope.

Deliverable 1 : Solution Architecture, Development and Test Support

Evaluate existing applications and provide roadmap for architectural upgrades and enhancements.

Evaluate unit tests and collaborate with the Regression Automation team to ensure adequate testing suites.

Provide input into design alternatives and provide alternative solutions based on the requirements and performance of the applications.

Deliverable 2 : Dev Ops Discovery and Assessment

Provide a thorough assessment of the existing CI / CD infrastructure, monitoring, security and compliance, and identify bottlenecks, risks and technical debt.

Provide a gap analysis between current state vs. industry standard.

Deliverable 3 : Roadmap & Strategy

Prioritized list of improvements (short, medium, long term).

Recommend upgrades and refactoring based on new technologies

Identify automation opportunities.

Security and compliance upgrade plan.

Deliverable 4 : Implementation of Approved Changes

CI / CD Pipeline Enhancements such as automated build, test, and deployment pipelines.

Monitoring and Logging Improvements to observability stack

Implementation of secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and access controls. For cloud applications, optimize scaling policies, cost optimizations, and backup / recovery improvements.

Deliverable 5 : Knowledge Transfer

On an ongoing basis through the end of the contract, all work products and deliverables (project status reports, business process, triage incident reports with resolution, meeting minutes, test cases, test outcomes) have to be discussed with the contract manager to ensure that all the information is documented and placed in a file share.

The contract manager will schedule knowledge transfer sessions at regular intervals to ensure that all of the work production details have been documented, and the knowledge has been transferred to the state personnel.

Minium Qualifications :

• Minimum of 10 years of expert-level experience as a DevOps Architect and System Integrator, with a proven track record of implementing solutions using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products.
• At least 10 years of experience serving as a Solution Architect for complex enterprise-scale applications, demonstrating the ability to design, integrate, and optimize large systems.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in the infrastructure and architecture of public pension systems, including system integration, scalability, performance optimization, and modernization of legacy platforms.
• 5 years of experience in developing technical documentation (standards, best practices, procedures) and delivering training or knowledge transfer sessions to team members.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience supporting applications on cloud platforms, specifically Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, with expertise in deployment, monitoring, and operational support.