Sr. DevOps Automation Engineer

Overview

On Site
$70+
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2

Skills

Agile
Atlassian
Jira
GitHub Enterprise Cloud
Hyper-V
Jenkins
Docker
Ansible
OpenShift
WebSphere
JBoss
Tomcat
Maven
Shell
Ruby
Perl
Python
Oracle
MySQL
PostgreSQL
DevOps
GitHub
Eclipse
IBM WebSphere
JavaScript

Job Details

Description:

  • Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, and studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes.
  • As a member of the team, participate in requirements analysis, high-level and detailed design, development, testing and deployment of new application components, as required.
  • Create technical and design documentation, as required.
  • Employ contemporary testing methods to ensure applications function properly and without error.
  • Provide technical support for testing and implementation efforts.
  • Perform system analysis, troubleshooting, diagnosis and problem resolution. Analyze software for defects and performance tuning opportunities.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements:

  • Experience with Agile Scrum and DevOps methodologies
  • GitHub Administration:
    • Manage repositories, branching strategies, and access control.
    • Automate workflows using GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD tools.
    • Maintain code quality and integration processes.
    • Define and implement governance rules.
  • Jira Administration:
    • Configure Jira projects, workflows, custom fields, and user permissions.
    • Develop dashboards and reports to support Agile project tracking.
    • Integrate JIRA with development and communication tools.
    • Design and maintain JIRA automation rules.
  • AWS Infrastructure Management:
    • Provision and manage EC2 instances, VPCs, IAM roles, S3 buckets, and related services.
    • Automate infrastructure using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform.
    • Monitor and optimize cloud performance and costs.
  • One or more programming languages or technologies such as Python, JavaScript, Angular and Maven
  • Experience working in Developer IDEs, such as Eclipse, IBM Rational Application Developer, etc.
  • Asset and service account management
  • BMC Helix ticketing system
  • Prefer some experience with Databases PostgreSQL and Oracle
  • Prefer some working experience with Virtual Machine Provisioning and De-Provisioning:
  • Create, configure, and manage VMs across cloud or on-prem Hyper-V environments.
  • Ensure proper networking, storage, and security configurations.
  • Prefer past Development and Database experience

II. CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Requirements:
Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.

Years

Required/Preferred

Experience

8

Required

Hands-on experience in administering, configuring, and supporting Atlassian Jira

8

Required

Proven ability to administer GitHub Enterprise Cloud

8

Required

Proven ability to analyze and resolve complex issues

8

Required

Supporting and training end users on all levels.

8

Required

Hands-on experience with Hyper-V server administration, hardware, backup, recovery and disaster/recovery

8

Required

Hands-on experience with Continuous Integration Delivery models

8

Required

Hands-on experience with Automation/Build tools: Jenkins, Docker, Ansible and OpenShift. App & Web Servers: WebSphere, JBoss and Tomcat. Scripting: Maven, Shell, Ruby, Perl and Python. Databases: Oracle, MySQL and Postgres.

8

Required

Hands-on experience integrating new webhooks into GitHub projects to automate various compliance checks

5

Preferred

Hands-on experience with large development projects using Agile methodology

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