Senior Dev Operations Engineer

Title : Senior Dev Operations Engineer

Duration : 12 months

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS :

• 6+ years of overall IT experience
• 4+ years of AWS Cloud management experience with below skill set
• AWS Certified DevOps and / or Solution Architect certification
• Experience in AWS provisioning, operations, and management of AWS environments.
• Experience setting up alerts / alarms / notifications in AWS cloud. CloudWatch / Dynatrace
• Experience with AWS solutions using AWS services including Kafka, ECS, EKS.
• Experience with IaC (Infrastructure as code) CDK or Terraform.
• Experience setting up / maintaining multi AZ infrastructure including HA and DR in AWS.
• Experience with code repositories Azure DevOps Server, GIT, GITLab, SVN
• Experience with continuous integration tools Jenkins, Azure Pipelines
• Excellent knowledge of Linux systems
• Experience with system automation and configuration management tools including Ansible Experience with Python scripting
• Strong background in networking, load balancing, and firewalls
• High-level understanding of networking standard protocols and components such as : HTTP, DNS, TCP / IP, ICMP, the OSI Model, Subnetting and Load Balancing
• Thorough understanding of and experience with managing web applications in a highly available environment
• Experience in Software development is a plus
• Familiarity with deploying and configuring Java and .Net applications.
• Experience with Application Security Testing tools a plus (Coverity, Tenable, BlackDuck, etc)
• Understanding of SQL, PL / SQL, and T-SQL commands

PREFERRED SKILLS :

• Passion for AWS cloud architecture, provisioning, monitoring, and maintenance management
• Passion for improving software development processes and desires to automate any repetitive work you ever do. Familiarity with configuration management
• Enthusiasm for working closely with developers to understand ops requirements
• Experience with large project rollouts at an enterprise level
• Detailed knowledge of Windows and Linux Operating Systems
• Good knowledge of SCM (software configuration management)
• Working knowledge of web services, web application development, Oracle database Server, multi-tier application systems
• Good knowledge of software configuration, source control, and build engineering, scripting and system administration is required
• Database management expertise : MS SQL Server, Oracle
• Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills, including application and network-level troubleshooting ability
• Technical writing skills
• Knowledge / experience with troubleshooting installing and configuring SSL certificates
• Understanding of TCP / IP, UDP, IP ROUTING, SSH / SFTP / SCP, DNS, FTP, SMTP

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS :

• Ability to think and operate as a team player
• Proven track record of project delivery results
• Extremely strong interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) with the ability to assess and clearly communicate technical and project risk
• Ability to act as a consultant and provide recommendations to the IT / Design Team
• Ability to operate as independently or as part of collaborative effort
• Demonstrate strong project leadership and ability to develop strong working relationships with State Fund technical personnel
• The candidate must be able to learn quickly, work in a fast-paced, team-driven environment and have the ability to communicate well with technical and non-technical personnel
• Willing to work after hours and weekends (as needed) in order to deploy product releases in predefined, maintenance windows
• Must be able to multi-task, manage details and keep sight of overall objectives

QUALIFICATIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS :

BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience