Devops Engineer Jobs

Role – DevOps Engineer

Location/Remote:Sterling, VA(Hybrid, candidatemustbe local to DC Metro)

Work Authorization:US citizenship requiredin order to obtain a US government Public Trust clearance

Design & Development

• Provide deployment support by deploying applications and microservices in cloud environments
• Advance DevOps processes and technologies using emerging technologies and cloud native tools
• Participate in creating long-term and short-term strategies for scaling cloud environments
• Design, create and maintain CI/CD software delivery pipelines & tools for an enterprise scale system with a large developer base
• Design, create and maintain container-based application solutions
• Work with development teams to troubleshoot specific issues by recreating tests, validating configuration, etc
• Write and run ad-hoc scripts (using Bash, Python etc) to automate DevOps processes
• Design, create and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) code artifacts

Operations

• Technical knowledge of AWS managed services (VPC, EC2, EKS, RDS), including monitoring and analytics tools such as AWS CloudWatch, NewRelic
• Administer network monitoring system, alerting, log management, and other IT systems
• Manage operational maintenance such as OS patches, security vulnerabilities etc to ensure healthy status of various prod and non-prod environments
• Solid understanding of microservice concepts
• Adhere to a comprehensive incident management program including problem management. Generate KPIs for service availability, uptime, and adherence to SOPs, and SLAs.
• Keen communication and teamwork abilities
• Improve system visibility and applications with advanced monitoring, metrics and log analytics
• Maintain, monitor, and help improve the performance and availability of the 24x7 production environment including networks, servers, databases, etc.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, especially with Jenkins using Groovy
• Analyze and identify root causes on critical problems, incident reports and communication
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field with 3+ years of relevant experience.
• Expert scripting skills (Bash, Perl, Python)
• Experience with code management systems (Git, Subversion)
• Participate in on-call rotation and provide hands-on support during emergencies, outages, and service transitions
• Experience maintaining Java/Node web applications (Spring Boot, React)
• Solid understanding of container-based technologies, especially Kubernetes, Docker, AWS EKS, OpenShift