Sr. DevOps Engineer / Prog Analyst 4
TAX Sr. DevOps Engineer Prog Analyst 4
ON SITE: See below
Duration expected: 12 months. DO NOT go by the end date listed. This is intended to be a long-term assignment.
*ON SITE: If selected, 2-3 days a week ON SITE will be required at some point (possibly within the next 2-3 months). Your candidate must agree to this arrangement when the manager requires the change to on site.
If selected, equipment must be picked up in person.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are seeking highly creative and intellectually curious DevOps Engineers to be instrumental in accelerating our agency’s transformation to DevOps and Cloud. As part of an internal engineering consulting and coaching team, you will specialize in helping agency's Tech Application teams drive efficiency and reliability into their entire Development to Operations lifecycle. While embedding with teams, you will strategize, consult, and prototype alongside other engineers to implement best practices and solutions for applications utilizing CI/CD and the Cloud. You will evangelize Distributed Version Control and Trunk-Based Development practices, ATDD and TDD, Pipelines, Infrastructure and Release Automation, and cloud Solutions.
Responsibilities & Expectations:
• Ability to plan and lead an engagement with an application team adopting DevOps and Cloud solutions
• Documenting Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and perform knowledge transfer to others
• Engineer, consult and upskill other engineers on DevOps and Cloud solutions to include distributed version control and trunk-based development practices, infrastructure automation, automated CI/CD pipelines, monitoring and operations, and a well-architected cloud infrastructure
• Generating innovative ideas, developing proof-of-concepts and rapid prototypes alongside other engineers utilizing pair programming and mobbing techniques
• Understand software engineering practices and the impact they have on efficient and effective use of DevOps and Cloud solutions
• Ability to clearly articulate and explain complex concepts and technologies to a non-technical audience
• Strong analytical, interpersonal and verbal communication skills are necessary due to the dynamic nature of collaborations with engineering teams and solving complex system problems together
• Building, maintaining and controlling stage and production environments
• Establishing proactive monitoring and alerting capabilities exist for all components of the platform
• Demonstrating fluency in at least two development languages such as Java, .Net, or Python
• Managing Azure, AWS or distributed VM environments
• Demonstrating knowledge of one container technology such as Docker, and at least two database technologies such as. Oracle, MS-SQL, or Postgresql
• Working experience with version control tool such as Github / TFS
• Working experience with CI/CD pipeline tooling and deployments
• Working experience with Continuous Integration tools: Jenkins, Maven, Nexus/ Artifactory
• Development and promotion of new DevOps tools to simplify build process and entire continuous delivery pipeline
• Employ innovative and secure solutions to ease developer and testing experience.
• Demonstrating experience in configuration management across a multi-platform estate such as Ansible, Puppet or Salt.
• Responsible for the day-to-day operations of all in-house developed, open source, and commercial DevOps tooling owned by the team (Ensuring system availability, performance, capacity, and monitoring through proper response to incidents, events and problems)
Required Skills
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
• Public Cloud (Azure/AWS)
• PowerShell
• Linux
• Experienced Java/ .net development
• Agile Backlog Management
• Source Code Management
• Build Orchestration
• Artifact Repository Management
• Code Scanning
• Compliance Automation
• Configuration Management
• Containers
• Deployment Strategies and Patterns including Blue/Green and Canary Deploys