DevOps Engineer

Jobsbridge; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 95,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An IT staffing organization is looking for an experienced Systems Administrator proficient in VMware and various scripting languages. The role requires at least 7 years of production experience in managing highly-available and clustered architectures. Candidates should have strong knowledge of configuration management tools and demonstrate expertise in Java application administration, FreeBSD or Linux system administration, and excellent troubleshooting skills. The position demands the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with VMware virtualization, management, monitoring and automation.
• 7+ years production experience administrating highly-available & clustered architectures.
• Expert in high availability applications including redundancy, fail over, scalability, monitoring and performance.

Responsibilities

• Systems administration including custom distributions, user and account management, patching and scripting.
• Able to handle multiple tasks in a fast paced environment.

Skills

VMware virtualization

Scripting languages (Shell, Python, Perl, Ruby)

Configuration management tools (Puppet, Ansible, Chef)

Infrastructure analysis & design

Organizational skills

Troubleshooting skills

Java applications administration

FreeBSD or Linux System Administration

Education

Undergraduate degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Bamboo

Jenkins

Hudson

CruiseControl

Job description

Jobs Bridge Inc is among the fastest growing IT staffing / professional services organization with its own job portal. Jobs Bridge works extremely closely with a large number of IT organizations in the most in-demand technology skill sets.

Job Description

Undergraduate degree in the field of computer science or equivalent.

Strong experience with VMware virtualization, management, monitoring and automation

7+ years production experience administrating highly-available & clustered architectures.

Proficiency in scripting languages such as Shell, Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.

Experience using configuration management tools such as Puppet, Ansible and Chef.

Expert in high availability applications including redundancy, fail over, scalability, monitoring and performance.

Good infrastructure analysis & design skills.

Systems administration including custom distributions, user and account management, patching and scripting.

Excellent organizational and troubleshooting skills.

Able to handle multiple tasks in a fast paced environment.

Experience administering Java applications.

Demonstrated master of FreeBSD or Linux System Administration.

Experience with CI tool: Bamboo, Jenkins, Hudson or CruiseControl.