Senior DevOps Engineer

Alphalogic, Inc.; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Alphalogic, Inc. is looking for a Sr. DevOps Engineer based in Reston, Virginia. The ideal candidate will have experience in designing, developing, and implementing cloud-based solutions with a focus on continuous delivery and infrastructure management.

Responsibilities include developing full stack solutions, ensuring quality standards are met, and mentoring junior team members. Candidates should possess a Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of relevant experience. U.S. Citizenship or GC Holders encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

• 5 - 7 years of experience in software systems and infrastructure development.
• Minimum 5 years demonstrated experience with full stack development.
• Strong practical Linux systems administration skills in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement solutions based on established standards.
• Responsible for the quality of deliverables and continuous improvement.
• Write complex code and build supporting toolsets for deployment.

Skills

AWS CloudFormation

Infrastructure as Code

Linux Administration

Continuous Integration

Programming Languages

Automated Testing Tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or MIS

Tools

DataDog

Git

Jenkins

Chef

Job description

Job Description

Position Summary:

The ideal candidate will have designed, developed and implemented solutions that include not only the code that services business functionality but the underlying infrastructure required to run that code and the systems required to deploy it. The candidate will also possess technical skills and experience in the virtual infrastructure domain in particular Amazon Web Services and have knowledge and experience with continuous delivery systems.

The Sr. DevOps Engineer must have excellent written and oral communication skills, and be adaptive to the changing needs of the organization. The Sr. DevOps Engineer must have experience with building and maintaining highly effective relationships with team members and multiple stakeholders across multiple projects.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and implement solutions, based on a set of standards and processes which establish consistency across the enterprise data, reduce risk, and promote efficiency in support of the organization’s goals and objectives.
• Responsible for the quality of their work; will develop and implement a set of quality criteria and the associated validation method to ensure that any deliverable meets the expected quality levels of our customers, use quality management to ensure quality levels are maintained, seek new approaches and techniques to improve quality levels, employ reviews and observations to maintain the quality and continuous improvement process, and analyze the impact of quality control and quality assurance on project performance.
• Use metrics to establish feasibility of new initiatives and develop plans, including budget, sequencing and time frames.
• Delegate responsibility and provide support (coaching and mentoring) for more junior teammate's work activities on a regular basis.
• Actively review their own and the team’s work processes and implement improvements seen from other teams or in industry to drive continuous improvement of the team’s efficiency, speed, and quality.
• Develop full stack solutions and continuous delivery frameworks that improve the ability of the CB IT delivery teams to efficiently deliver solutions with quality.
• Write complex code, building infrastructure as code, work with immutable “cloud” based environments, and build the supporting automated toolsets to test and deploy the systems they develop.
• The candidate will plan for work, manage and lead smaller development teams but is primarily a hands‑on engineer that leads by doing. The candidate will also take responsibility for creating design specifications, unit testing, and preparing technical documentation.

Qualifications

Qualifications

Education and Years of Experience:

• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or MIS.
• 5 - 7 years of experience in software systems, programming, and infrastructure development and administration.
• Minimum 5 years demonstrated experience with full stack development.

Related Skills and Other Requirements:

• Experience with Distributed Service Standards (SOAP, REST, EJB).
• Familiarity with monitoring tool suites like DataDog, SumoLogic, NewRelic, and Nagios.
• Experience with revision code source code repositories in particular git and SVN.
• Experience with automated testing tools (i.e. selenium, JMeter) is a plus.
• Strong and evolving competence in several programming languages and technologies, working knowledge of multiple tool sets, technologies and implementation environments.
• Expertise in the knowledge of programming languages, relational databases, and NoSQL databases.
• Strong practical Linux based systems administration skills and scripting experience in a cloud based environment.
• Experience building infrastructure as code using AWS CloudFormation or similar scripting techniques.
• Experience with Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible in production environments.
• Management of continuous integration servers like Jenkins and Bamboo.

Additional Information

Due to the nature of this opportunity, candidates with U.S. Citizenship or GC Holders are encouraged to apply. No C2C or agencies candidates and no sponsorship is available, please. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.