Web Services DevOps Engineer

Creative Solutions Services, LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

ITCON Services is seeking a detail-oriented Web Services DevOps Engineer to automate deployments, configure Drupal-based systems, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless production deployments. The role emphasizes scripting, monitoring, and centralized logging in a Linux-based environment.

The candidate should have strong experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, and CI/CD tools, and be comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative setting.

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 automation and configuration management using Ansible.
• 1-3 years of Linux administration experience.
• 3+ years of containerization, orchestration, and service discovery on Linux with Docker/ECS/EKS.
• 1-3 years experience with GitLab or similar version control systems including branching, tagging, merging, release management.
• At least three years building CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or GitLab Pipelines.
• Experience with Docker, deploying containers, automated build deployments.

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 deployment artifacts through the pipeline.
• Document all DevOps and CI/CD 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 and rollback strategies.

Skills

Docker

Kubernetes

GitLab

CI/CD pipelines

Ansible

Linux administration

ECS/EKS

Jenkins

Memcached

Varnish

CDNs

SOLR

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science

Tools

GitLab

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Memcached

Varnish

SOLR

CDN

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.