DevOps Engineer (Core)

Direct Client Requirement

Position : Devops Engineer

Location : Remote

Type : Contract to Hire

Important This is a contractual role with the potential to transition to full-time status at the sole discretion of the client.

Overview

As our DevOps engineer, you will work on a team of DevOps engineers focusing on the day-to-day tasks of managing and maintaining datacenter environments and will be hands-on involved with building source code, deploying binaries, configuration and monitoring application servers

You will also research and develop build and deployment automation tools and must be comfortable working in an agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Automate the development and test automation processes through CI / CD pipeline (GitFlow, Jenkins, SonarQube, Artifactory, Puppet, Stackstorm, Chef etc.,)
• Develop and configure tools for more productive Front-end Operations (build tools, deployment, speed : (app, tests, builds, deploys), monitoring errors / logs, and stability)
• Drive continuous improvements in deployment, management, and monitoring of the application's web services
• Manage and maintain multiple environments, ensuring that these environments are properly setup, configured, and available for each project as scheduled
• Contribute to improvements in processes that increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the DevOps and product development teams in responding to customer and business needs
• Solve live performance and stability issues and prevent their recurrence
• Document and present your ideas and solutions accurately and thoroughly
• Administer in Linux systems and various tools including JIRA, Git, Jenkins or other similar systems

Develop automated deployment and monitoring tools in Ansible, Python, bash or similar scripting

• languages (Ansible a MUST)
• Creatively identify and isolate issues between infrastructure and application
• Research and analyze tools and technologies to optimize building and deploying codebase, manage distributed production systems and application resources
• Deploy new modules, upgrades, and fixes to the production environment
• Work with various teams including developers, QA, triage, technical support, project managers, database administrators and technical writers
• Document and complete knowledge transfer to production support
• Work with Release Management to ensure modules are production ready

Qualifications

• 6+ years software engineering / DevOps experience
• Extensive experience in Ansible, Linux and Jenkins (REQUIRED)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Experience handling aggressive timelines
• Extensive experience with scripting and automation tools and strategies, e.g

Ansible and PowerShell

• Experience overseeing web application installations, upgrades, and deployment as well as any
• servers / systems that support hosted web applications
• Strong working knowledge of configuration management tools such as Puppet and Chef
• Experience with Jenkins and CI tools to automate software delivery (build, test, deploy)
• Experience in configuring SOA-based applications (REST, SOAP, JSON, and similar)
• UNIX / Linux based system administration experience
• Experience in web application (Java) maintenance and troubleshooting, application performance
• monitoring, automating day-to-day activities with Ansible
• Hands-on working experience with implementing configuration, build, deployment, and release management best practices
• Experience creating documentation for application configuration and procedures
• Experience with source control systems (GitHub, BitBucket, SVN, etc.)
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