Build Engineer / DevOps (Microsoft) - Contract to hire

Build Engineer / DevOps (Microsoft) - Contract to hire

Contract

USM Business Systems Inc. is a quickly developing worldwide System Integrator, Software and Product Development, IT Outsourcing and Technology assistance supplier headquartered in Chantilly, VA with off-shore delivery centers in India.

We offer world-class ability in giving most astounding quality and administrations through industry best practices planned to convey remarkable worth to our customers.

Utilizing our industry knowledge, administration service offering expertise and innovation abilities, we distinguish new business and innovation slants and create answers for help customers around the globe, giving top of the line solid and practical IT benefits which are cost effective services.

Established in 1999, the organization has corner qualities in building and dealing with a Business Oriented IT environment with rich involvement in technology innovation, ERP and CRM counselling, Product Engineering, Business Intelligence, Data Management, SOA, BPM, Data Warehousing, SharePoint Consulting and IT Infrastructure.

Our other offerings include customized solutions and administrations in ERP, CRM, Enterprise architecture, offshore advisory services, e-commerce, Social, Mobile, Cloud, Analytics (SMAC) and DevOps.

USM, a US ensured Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) is recognized as one of the fastest developing IT Systems Integrator in the Washington, DC zone.

Most as of late, USM was positioned #9 on the rundown of the Top administrations organizations in the DC Metro Area Washington Business Journal (2011).

We are a project-driven firm that reliably meets the IT needs of our State and Government customers through development and business keenness.

Job Title : Build Engineer / DevOps (Microsoft)

Duration : 6+ month (might need to roll perm, not sure, prefer EAD / GC)

Interview Process : Phone then F2F

Rate : $55-60 / hr on C2C

This is from the manager :

As a suggestion please do not focus on the tooling. Development experience (preferably .Net) is a must. Not interested in IT professionals who manage TFS as part of their workload.

This role requires a developer willing to shift right (from Dev to CI).

Again, I am not going to mention tooling because it throws people off but this is what an ideal candidate will look like.

• Unit testing experience
• Release management experience

Requirements :

• Must have a minimum of 5 years development experience in a .NET / Microsoft environment
• Must have development and coding experience with :
• Must have experience with ALM using Agile practices
• Experience with infrastructure automation tools, preferably Chef and Octopus
• Experience with CICD tools such as Bamboo or Jenkins or VSTS Build
• Experience working with Cloud solutions, preferably Azure
• Experience with testing frameworks such as :

Responsibilities :

• Role requires working with various cross-functional engineering specialists, project managers and application development teams to define and implement upcoming release requirements
• Facilitate communication between various teams & stakeholders in order to increase development velocity and improve efficiency
• Serves as the technology expert on building technical requirements
• Work with Automation testing teams to improve UI and Performance
• Responsible for helping to define the design, implementation and support of infrastructure and operational components. Will create and build using Jenkins and VSTS.

OVERVIEW :

The DevOps Build Master is a key member of an agile development team. The qualified applicant is responsible for the implementation of an application’s delivery pipeline - from version control, build, and release.

Applicant must be adept to working in a highly fluid environment which includes : frequent changes to requirements, tactics, strategies and timelines.

Candidate must also be a self-learner with abilities to quickly absorb new and emerging technologies. Effective communication skills are a must as this role requires frequent interactions with other departments i.

e., Application Development, QA, PMO, Operations, offshore Dev / QA teams, vendors, and the business. Experience with cloud programming models such as Reliable Actors and Reliable Services are a plus.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Work closely with scrum masters to understand upcoming release requirements
• Manage and resolve forward / reverse integration issues with limited help (merge issues)
• Support multiple development teams working on a single development branch
• Create and maintain build definitions in VSTS Build and Jenkins
• Troubleshoot / resolve build and package issues
• Monitor / enforce code quality and test coverage standards
• Work with QA automation teams to orchestrate automated testing (UI and Performance)
• Administer VSTS version control system using Git and TFVC repositories
• Attend daily SCRUM standup meetings with development teams
• Design and develop new methods to improve AutoNation’s development environment

QUALIFICATIONS :

• 5-7 years of .NET development experience at the enterprise level using Agile best practices
• Bachelor’s degree in technology or equivalent job experience
• Strong understanding of ALM and release management processes
• Software version control systems in centralized and distributed designs
• Continuous integration systems that test and package deployable code
• Continuous deployment systems that deploy / promote code to different environments on demand
• Configuration management that automatically set environments to desired state
• Software and system monitoring / alerting that provide fast feedback loops
• Strong understanding of coding standards such as MVC, client-side frameworks (Angular JS / React, jQuery), asynchronous programming, web sockets (SignalR), web APIs, SOA, Reliable Actors, Reliable Services, SQL, SSDT and mobile clients using Xamarin
• Strong understanding of test frameworks and tools such as : Jasmine, AVA, Mocha, JSlint, Karma, Grunt, Gulp, nUnit, xUnit, MSTest, Selenium
• Solid understanding of zero-downtime deployments and fast rollback strategies

ENVIRONMENTS and TOOLING :

• Server 2012 R2, Server 2016, RHEL
• IIS Web Server
• MS SQL Server 2014, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS
• Sitecore, Sharepoint
• Jenkins CI, VSTS Build
• Octopus Deploy, VSTS Release, Chef
• SonarQube, Cobertura
• Office 365

If you are interested in the above position, please share your updated resume to gmahesh(at)usmsystems(dot)com or can directly call me on 703-880-4184.

Make your application after reading the following skill and qualification requirements for this position.

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