Applications Development Expert (DevOps) (Hybrid)

Job Title: Applications Development Expert (DevOps) (Hybrid)
Duration: 2+ Years
Location: Baltimore, MD

Job Description:

The Client seeks Applications Development Experts (DevOps) to provide expert-level of technical services in the areas of planning, development, continuous integration, and continuous deployments for enterprise-level applications and custom integrated solutions, including major enhancements and interfaces, functions and features for the solutions and other systems.

Duties / Responsibilities:

• Work with the development, testing, and operations teams and other DevOps engineers in setting up and maintaining the Maryland Health Connection system, application, and all related components in Cloud and traditional infrastructure.
• Provide technical support to Application Development teams to aid the consumption of Cloud services and ensure adherence to CI/CD pipeline patterns and standards.
• Collaborate and consult with infrastructure and system operations teams to help automate the end-to-end Operations of the applications and systems in AWS Cloud.
• Design, build, maintain, document, and automate technical processes and operations using AWS cloud services.
• Work with other DevOps team members to build tools and automation to configure/deploy/maintain our cloud technologies in AWS Cloud.
• Work on several tools in implementing and deploying CI/CD solutions in AWS Cloud, such as Ansible, EC2, ELB, Jenkins, Git, Docker, S3, etc.
• Understand and consistently apply the attributes and processes of current application development methodologies.
• Build, maintain, and monitor configuration standards.
• Develop standards and codebase to monitor and alert various cloud-based systems and applications to help ensure SLAs and other performance metrics are met.
• Monitor systems performance, troubleshoot errors, and debug.
• Utilize a variety of platforms to provide automated and integrated systems and applications.
• Provide technical input to the most complex and high-impact IT decisions for integrated solutions.
• Accountable for complex enterprise-wide applications and issues, translating
• highly complex technical concepts into requirements and solutions for peers.
• Assist with integration testing and work with business teams to complete acceptance testing.
• Participate in technical reviews during various stages of software and application development.
• Adhere to all security, change control, and Project Management Office (PMO) policies, processes, and methodologies.

Note: The candidate must be flexible to work overtime as needed, including weekends, holidays, and off-hours.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree from an accredited college or university in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or other related disciplines.
• A minimum of eight (8) years of experience designing, developing, maintaining, or supporting enterprise information technology platforms, applications, or solutions.
• A minimum of five (5) years of hands-on experience with DevOps processes in a cloud environment, preferably with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• A minimum of five (5) years of experience in automated configuration and deployment using tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, or other Infrastructure as Code (IAC) frameworks.
• A minimum of four (4) years of experience in Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Automation, and Orchestration.
• A minimum of four (4) years of experience working with infrastructure design and deployment of applications in Amazon Cloud (AWS).
• A minimum of two (2) years of experience with Ansible, Jenkins, Maven, and Scripting.
• Strong knowledge of the AWS cloud computing platform EC2, S3 (Object Storage), VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), Lambda, EBS (Block Storage under high I/O), ELB (Elastic Beanstalk - load-balancing and autoscaling), ECS, EKS, CloudFormation for AWS Orchestration, CloudWatch, and RedShift.
• Experience with the app and web server configuration and maintenance (JBoss, Apache Tomcat, or similar).

Preferred Qualifications:

• A Minimum of five (5) years of design, development, implementation, or maintenance experience with complex applications for health systems, eligibility systems, or equivalent.
• A minimum of three (3) years of software development experience with government Cloud deployments supporting high-volume, high-quality consumer applications.
• Experience with AWS services like CloudFormation, IAM Policies, EC2, Lambda, S3, Glacier, Multi-Region VPC, Route53, Security Groups, ALB/ELB/NLB, API GW, WAF, Shield, KMS, CloudTrail, Config, CloudWatch, Config, Kinesis.
• Hands-on experience with technologies like Docker, Git, NGINX. RDS, Elastic Beanstalk, VPC, Kubernetes.
• Experience working with PostgreSQL and MongoDB databases in cloud environments.
• Experience with Identity Provider (IDP) and Identity Access Management (IAM) technologies and solutions.
• Experience with scripting such as Ruby, Python, or Bash.
• Strong knowledge of Microservice and SOA architectures.
• Familiarity with various traditional and innovative project management approaches, tools, and phases of the project lifecycle.
• Experience with Agile software development practices.
• Experience working with the Project Management Office (PMO) processes, policies, and procedures.