Web Services DevOps Engineer

ITCON Services; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

ITCON Services is seeking a detail-oriented Web Services DevOps Engineer to join our team in Washington, DC. You will build and automate CI/CD pipelines, manage Drupal/PHP deployments, and coordinate patching across environments to ensure high availability.

You will collaborate with development, QA, and infrastructure teams, document processes, and lead production deployment efforts with robust rollback strategies. Strong scripting and Linux administration skills are essential.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent technical degree.
• 3-5 years of experience managing diverse DevOps workloads across infrastructure, administration, deployment, development support and monitoring.
• 3 years of experience with automation and configuration management using Ansible.
• 1-3 years of Linux administration experience.
• 3+ years of experience with containerization, orchestration, and service discovery on Linux using Docker/ECS/EKS.
• 1-3 years of experience with GitLab or similar version control systems, including branching, tagging, merging, and release management.
• At least three years of experience building CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or GitLab Pipelines.
• Experience with Docker, deploying containers, automated build deployments.

Responsibilities

• Develop scripts to enable CI/CD using GitLab CI/CD or other tools.
• Configure and setup systems built in Drupal and PHP-based frameworks across environments.
• Collaborate with development, QA, release engineering, site support, and infrastructure teams to maintain deployment artifacts through the pipeline.
• Document all DevOps and CI processes on SharePoint.
• Develop and fix monitoring systems to ensure production availability.
• Develop and implement centralized logging and monitoring tools.
• Install application patches on Drupal-based applications.
• Lead production deployment efforts with change requests, deployment and rollback strategy and testing.
• Coordinate patch deployments with Linux and Drupal vendors and ensure container image updates.
• Work with Solution Architecture and Tanzu teams to patch container images.
• Debug performance issues and recommend optimizations.

Skills

Automation experience

Ansible

Linux administration

Containerization

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

GitLab

Shell scripting

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Gitlab CI/CD

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Drupal CMS

Job description

ITCON Services is seeking a detail-oriented Web Services DevOps Engineer.

General Responsibilities

• The contractor personnel will be required to work 40 hours per week. The normal work hours are 9 am to 5:30 pm, Monday through Friday, with a half hour for lunch.
• Work effectively and collaboratively with Web Services colleagues on assigned projects and activities.
• Maintain professional relationships with customers, management, colleagues and deliver high-quality customer service.
• Enable automation of triggers and alerts when deploying applications through environments
• Configure automated testing and deployment processes
• Design and document the DevOps process
• Automate Developer's everyday operations with scripts or templates
• Recommend to management development approaches and strategies for applications and services provided to House customers.
• Work closely with management, project managers and members of the Development Team to develop detailed specification documents

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop scripts to do Continuous Integration and Development using Gitlab CI/CD or other similar tools
• Configure and Setup systems built in Drupal and PHP based framework across environments
• Collaborate with development, QA, release engineering, site support, and infrastructure teams to maintain high-quality deployment artifacts as it moves through deployment pipeline
• Document all DevOps and Continuous Integration processes on SharePoint
• Develop and fix monitoring systems to ensure availability of production systems
• Develop and implement centralized logging and monitoring tool
• Install application patches on applications built on Drupal
• Lead production deployment efforts with Development Team by creating change requests, deployment and rollback strategy and testing to ensure successful deployments to production environments
• Work with Linux team and Drupal vendors to coordinate patch deployments and remove any impediments for development team and requests made by Development team.
• Work with the Solution Architecture team, VM Tanzu team and Development team to ensure patching and updates are applied to the Container images.
• Debug application performance issues and provide recommendation on optimizing the performance.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent technical degree.
• 3-5 years of experience managing diverse DevOps workloads, across infrastructure, administration, deployment, development support and monitoring.
• 3 years of experience with automation and configuration management using Ansible
• 1-3 years of Linux administration experience.
• 3+ years of experience working with containerization, orchestration, and service discovery experience on Linux hosts, using docker, ECS or EKS.
• 1-3 years of experience with Gitlab or similar version control systems, including branching, tagging, merging, and release management.
• At least three (3) years of experience building CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or Gitlab Pipelines
• Experience with Docker, deploying containers, automated build deployments.

SPECIFIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Understanding of the Agile/Scrum software development lifecycle
• Hands on experience in building and maintaining websites using Drupal CMS and supporting tools like Memcached, Varnish, Load Balancers, SOLR, CDNs
• Demonstrated experience in deploying and configuring applications on Kubernetes and Linux environments
• Experience with automation tools like Ansible or equivalent
• Strong understanding and familiarity with the fundamentals of Linux systems administration
• Experience with application containerization (Docker) and infrastructure as code solutions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Equally comfortable working on a project team as well as independently
• Excellent organization, planning, prioritizing skills and attention to detail
• Experience in setting up and deploying applications on PaaS or IaaS cloud offerings
• Experience in administration of source code management tools like Git.