Lead DevOps-Upskilling Partner

Position: Lead DevOps-Upskilling Partner Location: des Moines, IA - REMOTE Duration: 10+ Months Contract Job Description: MUST HAVE’s: • Have TFS (Team Foundation Server) to GitHub transformation experience. • ADO (Azure DevOps) to GitHub transformation experience, including wikis and dashboards • Both technically sound as well as a savvy business communicator who can influence stakeholders and lead team. As the Lead DevOps Engineer/Upskilling Partner, you will: • Lead DevOps Strategy (60-70% hands-on, 30-40% leadership): You’ll balance hands-on work with leadership, focusing on automating CI/CD pipelines, establishing best practices, and leading development teams through migrations. • Application Migration: You will lead the migration of applications from TFS/ADO to GitHub. Experience with GitHub Actions, GitHub Enterprise, and Azure DevOps will be critical for success. You’ll design and implement migration strategies that include moving wikis, project management boards, and source code repositories. • DevOps Automation & Optimization: You’ll build scalable, automated solutions for builds, testing, and deployments, as well as optimize branching, merging, and release processes. • Mentorship & Technical Guidance: You will mentor and coach developers, leading technical debates, and providing guidance on best practices for development, security, and process automation. • Security and Code Quality: You will integrate security scanning tools into the development pipeline (e.g., SAST, SCA, GitHub Advanced Security) and lead efforts to improve code quality through automated tests, code reviews, and continuous integration practices. • Cloud and Infrastructure Support: While the primary focus will be on Azure, you should have experience with other cloud providers, infrastructure as code (IaC), and setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines from scratch. Skills Required: • C#, ASP.NET, MVC, .NET Core development and mentoring - Required 8 years • Security practices (secure coding, static code analysis, data protection/encryption, etc.) - Required 8 years • TFS, Azure DevOps, GIT, GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, CI/CD - Required 5 years • Automated Testing, Test Driven Development, Gating Deployments - Required 5 years • TSQL language skills with MS SQL - Required 8 years • Code reviews, documentation, technical guidance, mentoring - Required 5 years • Technical debate moderation and team direction influence - Required 2 years • Code quality and security scanning tools - Required 4 years • Code branching, merging, and release process optimization - Required 5 years • TypeScript/Angular, Client Based Authorization, Service Clients - Required 2 years