Sr. DevOPS Engineer

Jobsbridge; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; 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.

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.

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

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,