DevOps/Middleware Engineer / Contract / Hybrid / Alpharetta, GA

Overview

On Site
76.67/hr - 80/hr
Full Time

Skills

Unix
Linux
Software Administration
DHCP
DMZ
Firewall
TCP
HTTP
SOAP
RESTful
Configuration Management
Ansible
Progress Chef
Puppet
Scripting
YAML
Windows PowerShell
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
GitHub
Jenkins
CloudBees
Apache Maven
High Availability
Servers
Oracle WebLogic
WildFly
Apache Tomcat
Apache HTTP Server
Proxies
Docker
Kubernetes
Cloud Computing
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Azure
Load Balancing
Dragon NaturallySpeaking
DNS
Virtual Machines
Amazon EC2
Storage
Amazon S3
EBS
Computer Networking
Virtual Private Cloud
Amazon Route 53
Siteminder
LDAP
RBAC
SSL
Lifecycle Management
OpenSSL
Corporate Social Responsibility
Multi-factor Authentication
AppDynamics
Kibana
Splunk
Nagios
Dynatrace
Grafana
Root Cause Analysis
Agile
Kanban
Scrum
DevOps
Customer Facing
Use Cases
Application Servers
Scalability
Production Support
Shell
Perl
Python
Scripting Language
Technical Writing
Leadership
Automated Testing
Middleware
Performance Monitoring
Capacity Management
Instrumentation
KPI Management
Computer Hardware
Migration
Regression Analysis
Post-production
Evaluation
Design Analysis
ROOT
Knowledge Sharing

Job Details

Exciting contract DevOps/Middleware Engineeropportunity with an established firm. This is a hybrid role local to Alpharetta, GA.

Contract Duration: 6-Months

Required Skills & Experience
  • OS (Unix/Linux) From the basic Application administration and maintenance support perspective.
  • Knowledge about DNS, DHCP, Load balancer, DMZ, Firewalls, listing, TCP/HTTP/SOAP/RESTAPI etc.
  • Configuration Management Tools with Ansible/Chef/Puppet and scripting with Shell, Perl, python, Jason, YAML, PowerShell etc.
  • CI/CD Pipeline - GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CloudBees, Artifactory, Maven Canary & Blue/Green deployment with High availability of applications.
  • Middleware - Experience using any Enterprise servers like WebLogic, JBoss, Tomcat, Apache, proxy setup and security patching support.
  • Containerization - Leveraging Docker/Podman and Kubernetes for application deployment, ensuring portability across cloud platforms.
  • Cloud technologies - AWS/Azure on Load balancer, DNS, virtual machines (EC2), storage solutions (S3, EBS), and networking components (VPC, Route 53)
  • Security Okta, SiteMinder, LDAP, AD, Entra ID, RBAC, SSL certificates lifecycle management, OpenSSL, Keytool, CSR and MFA knowledge.
  • Monitoring Tools - Preferably with any of these: Datadog, AppDynamics, Kibana, Splunk, Nagios, Dynatrace, Grafana etc.
  • Troubleshooting experience on Production & Non-production issues with infrastructure knowledge and in-depth root cause analysis.
  • Knowledge and exposure to Agile Kanban/Scrum process and methodologies.

What You Will Be Doing
Daily Responsibilities
  • Performs as an individual contributor of DevOps/ middleware team that builds and supports exceptional customer-facing applications with challenging business use cases, existing systems and operational problems.
  • Experience working on various middleware application servers and containers from monolithic to modern versions.
  • Apply middleware infrastructure automation code with utmost attention to scalability, security and performance and with an end-to-end mindset from conception to delivery and production support, owning capacity specifications, quality, release deployments and monitoring of production health.
  • The candidate must also have some Shell/Perl/Python scripting language experience and be able to use this to implement changes in pipelines.
  • Maintains technical documentation on any implementations, README files up-to-date, and status pages of the projects along with Release team handover.
  • Collaborates closely with Engineering leadership, Product Managers, Designers, Test Automation and other teams to define, prioritize, sequence and scope middleware around business and functional areas.
  • Accurately scopes effort, identifies risks and clearly communicates trade-offs with team members and other stakeholders.
  • Instruments infrastructure and application performance monitoring, capacity management, alerting, tools instrumentation and metrics (KPI) management.
  • Perform impact assessment of product (hardware, software) upgrades, patching, migration and hot fixes.
  • Assists in planning, coordinating, and executing projects across various environments (Regression, Performance, Production and Post-production).
  • Supports and collaborates with other Engineers through evaluation, design analysis, and development phases.
  • Familiarity on common issues that causes builds/deployments to fail such as out of memory, disk full, missing libraries or security certificates etc.
  • Proven track record of handling & troubleshooting various critical Production and nonproduction applications end to end & infrastructure technical issues, providing comprehensive root cause.
  • This list is not all-inclusive, and you are expected to perform other duties as requested or assigned such as On-call rotation and knowledge sharing sessions as part of the team.
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