DevOps Engineer
Kemper Corporation3 days ago
Jacksonville, FL, USASenior
Base Salary
$80k - $133k/yr
Responsibilities
- Maintain and improve CI/CD processes for automated builds, testing, releases, and deployments.
- Design and automate cloud and hybrid infrastructure, including AWS services, container platforms, build environments, and deployment workflows.
- Administer Jenkins, GitLab, JFrog Artifactory/Xray, SonarQube, AWS-based services, and shared engineering platforms.
- Support Kubernetes/EKS workloads and platform services, including deployment, configuration, access, observability, and troubleshooting.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code and automation for AWS infrastructure, Linux and Windows systems, and repeatable platform operations.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and report on the health, availability, capacity, and performance of DevOps infrastructure.
- Partner with application, cloud, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to improve developer experience and implement secure configurations, access controls, compliance requirements, and hardened operating-system images.
- Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and project documentation for platform changes, builds, releases, and automation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Systems/Technology, or equivalent.
- At least 5 years of DevOps-related work experience in development or infrastructure automation.
- Hands-on experience with AWS services, cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code, configuration management, and automation.
- Understanding of source-code management using Git and enterprise Git platforms.
- Programming or scripting experience with one or more of Python, Bash/PowerShell, .NET, or Java.
- Experience creating code-defined infrastructure with CloudFormation, Terraform, AWS CDK, or similar tools.
- Understanding of public cloud, networking, IAM/security, highly available infrastructure, and remote administration of Linux and Windows systems.
- Preferred experience with containers and Kubernetes/EKS, multi-stage build pipelines, Git-based source-code platforms, Artifactory, Xray, and SonarQube.
- Strong troubleshooting, communication, documentation, collaboration, and customer-service skills.
Benefits
- Hybrid work from the Kemper office in Birmingham, Alabama, or Jacksonville, Florida.
- Eligible for Kemper benefits including medical, dental, vision, PTO, and 401(k).
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About Kemper Corporation
Kemper Corporation is a U.S. insurer offering auto, home, life, accident and health, and specialty personal lines for individuals and small businesses, primarily under the Kemper Auto and Kemper Life brands. The company distributes policies through independent agents, brokers, and online channels, generating revenue from premiums and investment income. Founded in 1990 and headquartered in Chicago, it is a public company listed on the NYSE.