DevOps Engineer

Washington DC – 100% REMOTE

Long-term Contract 

Job Description:

In order to meet the demands of its clients, Team needs 1 (one) Senior DevOps Engineer. In this role, the individual will be a hands-on Senior Engineer with DevOps skills.

The responsibilities include execution of full life cycle activities in support of multiple devops tools which will include but not limited to:

• Work directly with architect, principal and lead engineer, and other team members on design and implement tasks.
• Plan and build roadmaps for the DevOps Tools such as Artifactory, SonarQube, Jenkins CI, Bitbucket.
• Upgrade / Patch / Migrate DevOps tools
• Accountable for meeting milestones.
• Conduct code review, unit and integration testing.
• Document system design and unit testing information
• Automation of manual steps

Required Skills:

• Hands on with Python, Shell scripting
• Have hands on skills with Jenkins, BitBucket, Sonar, Artifactory, CloudNative Practices. Wide breadth knowledge of development and testing best DevOps practices.
• Outstanding knowledge in Continuous Integration (CI), Testing (CT), Security and deployment(CD) concepts. Knowledge of JIRA and Confluence
• Apply engineering principles to improve resiliency, performance, efficiency and scalability of the DevOps eco system
• Analyze existing processes, practices, within the delivery teams and suggest changes to improve throughput.
• Find opportunities and build automation to reduce teams interdependency
• Stay current with DevOps practices, emerging tools landscape, and predict impact of changes
• AWS EC2 instance maintenance
• Linux administration
• Administer Windows
• Linux certification (current or prior) desirable
• Windows Administrator certification (current or prior) desirable
• Excellent documentation skills
• Self-starter and quick learner
• Be part of on call rotation

Day to Day Activities:

• Maintain operations of the DevOps tools within a team.
• Maintain Jenkins Servers and Agents
• Maintain Artifactory
• Maintain SonarQube
• Maintain Bitbucket
• Monitor Nagios Alerts and respond as per SOP and run books
• Upgrade the tools on a regular cadence.
• Add Change control tickets and attend change control meetings.
• Administer Linux
• Administer Windows
• Administer AWS console where Jenkins Agent exists on the EC2 instance.

Software & Tools:

• Jenkins CI and its plugins
• Artifactory and its plugins
• Bitbucket and its plugins
• SonarQube and its plugins