Sr. DevOPS Engineer

Jobsbridge; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT staffing organization is seeking a DevOps Engineer in Washington D.C. The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience in sys-admin and release management, with strong expertise in DevOps practices and automation tools like Ansible. Responsibilities include developing deployment tools for IaaS platforms and leading agile practices in project SDLC. A BS/MS degree in Computer Science or a similar technical field is required. Competitive compensation and work in a dynamic environment are offered.

Qualifications

• 8 years’ work experience in sys-admin and release management.
• Solid understanding of CI best practices and tooling, specifically Jenkins.
• Strong experience with Git like DVCS systems for release management.
• Extensive experience in building JAVA Web/Mobile Systems.
• Well versed in using Solaris and Linux operating systems.
• Detailed knowledge of Configuration Management discipline.
• Strong organizational and communication skills.
• Well versed in using Solaris, and Linux operating systems.
• Detailed knowledge of Configuration Management discipline.
• Self-starter with ability to lead processes and projects.
• Thorough knowledge of Scripting with Bash/Shell, Perl and Python.
• Strong organizational, communication skills and detail oriented.
• BS/MS Degree in Computer Science or similar technical field.
• DevOps practices, deployment tools to support IAAS platforms i.e. AWS, RackspaceAWS,

Responsibilities

• Develop and automate deployment tools for IAAS platforms.
• Lead agile practice implementation for project SDLC.
• Design best practices for build and release process and tooling.
• Oversee daily responsibility of build execution.
• Develop and automate build/release steps; oversee daily build execution.
• Lead agile practice implementation for SDLC.
• Support Test Driven and Agile Development.
• Design best practices for build and release tooling.

Skills

DevOps practices

Automation tools (Ansible, Chef)

Scripting languages (Python, Bash)

CI tools (Jenkins)

IaaS platforms (AWS, Rackspace)

Configuration Management

Agile Development

JAVA Web/Mobile Systems

Ansible

Cloud AWS

Education

BS/MS Degree in Computer Science or similar technical field

Tools

Git

JIRA

Confluence

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.

Responsibilities

• A clear understanding of the practice driven around and the development of a DevOps based release platform
• Experience in the process of transitioning to DevOps practices - includes an understanding of best practices, implementation strategies (e.g. GIT branch strategies) and integration strategies and analysis of related tools.
• Familiarity and practical experience with the ‘continuous’ practices noted in our objectives
• Well versed with automation and provisioning frameworks primarily Ansible (Salt and Chef experience may suffice)
• Experience developing and automating deployment tools to support IAAS platforms – i.e. AWS, Rackspace
• Well versed with and working knowledge of other associated software deployment tools - SCM (GIT), CI tools (Jenkins CI), Artifact repositories (ArtiFactory), Issue management tools (JIRA, Confluence, Crowd)
• Working knowledge of the following scripting languages: Python, Bash
• Working knowledge of the following software tools: Maven, Gradle
• Experience in supporting Test Driven and Agile Development
• Design best practices for build and release process and tooling
• Take charge of automating steps in our build and release systems
• Oversee daily responsibility of build execution for various systems/releases
• Lead agile practice implementation for project SDLC
• Experience in Cloud & Virtualization products
• Advanced experience in automation tools and best practices.

Qualifications

• 8 years’ work experience in sys-admin and release management
• Solid understanding of CI best practices and tooling, specifically Jenkins
• Strong experience with Git like DVCS systems and their use in release management, branching, merging, and integration strategies
• Extensive experience in building JAVA Web/Mobile Systems
• Well versed in using Solaris, and Linux operating systems
• Detailed knowledge of Configuration Management discipline
• Self-starter with ability to lead processes and projects
• Thorough knowledge of Scripting with Bash/Shell, Perl and Python
• Strong organizational, communication skills and detail oriented
• BS/MS Degree in Computer Science or similar technical field
• DevOps practices, deployment tools to support IAAS platforms i.e. AWS, RackspaceAWS,