Senior DevOps Engineer/Performance Engineering Exp.

Alphalogic, Inc.; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Alphalogic, Inc. is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design and implement robust solutions and infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software systems and a strong command of AWS and other cloud technologies.

The role emphasizes maintaining quality, developing continuous delivery frameworks, and hands-on leadership in diverse projects. Candidates with U.S. Citizenship or GC Holders are encouraged to apply, as no sponsorship is available.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience in software systems, programming, and infrastructure development.
• 5 years of demonstrated full stack development experience.
• Strong practical Linux systems administration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement solutions based on standards and processes.
• Develop and ensure quality criteria for deliverables.
• Write complex code and build infrastructure as code.
• Lead and manage hands-on development teams.

Skills

AWS Cloud Services

Infrastructure as Code

Continuous Integration

Programming Languages

Linux Administration

Education

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

Tools

Git

Jenkins

AWS CloudFormation

Selenium

Nagios

Job description

Senior DevOps Engineer/Performance Engineering Exp.

Full-time

Alphalogic is a global technology solutions company headquartered in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Alphalogic offers a wide range of technology and consulting services; predictive analytics, data warehousing & BI, cloud consulting, web & mobile application development.

Cutting‑edge Technologies

Our company’s core competencies are cloud and mobile computing; healthcare solutions and services; data warehousing‑analytics‑ business intelligence; and enterprise collaboration‑content management. Alphalogic teams are continually deploying emerging technologies to meet our clients’ current challenges.

Industry Best Practices

Alphalogic specializes in the effective use of industry‑standard frameworks such Agile, for helping our clients achieve quick wins and reduce cycle times.

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 implements 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

Education/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) are a plus.
• Strong and evolving competence in several programming languages and technologies, working knowledge of multiple tools 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.

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. All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.