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Our success is a direct reflection of the talented and diverse people who make a positive difference in the lives of our customers every day. We believe a high-performing culture, valuable opportunities for personal development and professional challenge, and a healthy work-life balance can be highly motivating and productive. Kemper’s products and services are making a real difference to our customers, who have unique and evolving needs. By joining our team, you are helping to provide experience to our stakeholders that delivers on our promises.\nKemper has an immediate need for a skilled and motivated DevOps Engineer to work from our Birmingham office.\nThis role works as part of a team responsible for designing, implementing, maintaining, and improving enterprise DevOps and platform engineering capabilities across on-premise and AWS cloud environments. The team supports continuous integration and automated release processes, source-code management, artifact management, container platforms, infrastructure automation, security tooling, and the shared platforms used by application development teams.\nThe focus will be on maintaining secure, reliable, and scalable engineering platforms while improving the efficiency of development, testing, infrastructure provisioning, and product release processes. The DevOps Engineer will work in a dynamic, fast-paced agile environment and will partner closely with application, cloud, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to automate repeatable work, troubleshoot platform issues, and continuously improve developer experience.\nResponsibilities\nEnsure quality, reliability, security, and efficiency of DevOps platforms and SDLC tooling\nMaintain and improve CI/CD processes that support automated software builds, testing, releases, and deployments\nDesign and automate cloud and hybrid infrastructure, including build and test environments, AWS services, container platforms, and deployment workflows\nProvide automation, CI/CD, source control, artifact management, and cloud platform expertise to Application Development teams\nMonitor, troubleshoot, and report on the health, availability, capacity, and performance of build, deployment, and shared DevOps infrastructure\nSupport and administer enterprise engineering platforms such as Jenkins, GitLab, JFrog Artifactory/Xray, SonarQube, and AWS-based services\nSupport Kubernetes/EKS workloads and platform services, including deployment, configuration, access, observability, and troubleshooting\nDevelop and maintain infrastructure-as-code and automation for AWS infrastructure, Linux and Windows systems, and repeatable platform operations\nPartner with security and infrastructure teams to implement vulnerability management, secure configuration, access controls, compliance requirements, and hardened operating-system images\nMaintain appropriate technical documentation, operational procedures, and project documentation for platform changes, builds, releases, and automation\nQualifications\nBachelor degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Systems/Technology, or equivalent and/or DevOps related work experience (development or infrastructure automation)\nUnderstanding of the DevOps principles and patterns in an enterprise organization\nHands-on experience with AWS services and cloud infrastructure\nStrong understanding of infrastructure as code (IaC), configuration management, and automation practices\nDemonstrated understanding of source-code management processes using Git and enterprise Git platforms\nProgramming or scripting experience in one or more of the following: Python, Bash/PowerShell, .NET, or Java\nExperience creating and maintaining code-defined infrastructure using technologies such as CloudFormation, Terraform, AWS CDK, or similar tools\nExperience developing solutions with AWS services and enterprise DevOps tools\nSolid understanding of public cloud, networking, IAM/security, and highly available infrastructure; AWS experience strongly preferred\nExperience with remote administration and automated configuration of Linux and Windows systems\nExperience with containers and Kubernetes/EKS, including deployments, configuration, troubleshooting, and operational support preferred\nBuild automation experience, including multi-stage pipelines, shared automation, credentials, and deployment dependencies preferred\nExperience with git based source-code platforms and with artifact, code-quality, and related tooling such as Artifactory, Xray, and SonarQube preferred\nStrong troubleshooting, communication, documentation, collaboration, and customer-service skills\nThis position works in the Kemper office in a hybrid capacity.\nKemper is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, disability status or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We are committed to supporting diversity and equality across our organization and we work diligently to maintain a workplace free from discrimination.\nKemper does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Kemper and Kemper will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.\nKemper will never request personal information, such as your social security number or banking information, via text or email. Additionally, Kemper does not use external messaging applications like WireApp or Skype to communicate with candidates. 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