DevOps Engineer in Dallas, Texas

DevOps Engineer

Location: Dallas, Texas

Type: Contract

Rate: DOE

NO third-party Corp to Corp accepted for this job

Description

Assess, design, develop enterprise continuous integration/delivery framework enabling enterprise-wide adoption of DevOps. Work with the project team members and have the direct interaction with various client and vendor resources to maintain client application release and source code including all source code that is, or will be, implemented in a production environment; scripts that install, configure, or monitor any applications in production environments; and application configuration information.

KEY JOB FUNCTIONS

• Building a release pipeline to enable fast, but safe delivery of critical business software to Production
• Developing DevOps framework and implement standards, processes, and controls for release and deployment activities
• Develop sound version control best practices based CM systems (Clearcase, SVN, GIT , etc.), including branching and merging strategies
• Serve as a technical lead for an Agile team and actively participate in all Agile ceremonies. Participate in all team ceremonies including planning, grooming, product demonstration and team retrospectives.
• Leverage Client DevOps tool stack to build, inspect, deploy, test and promote new or updated features.
• Leverage programming Languages such as Python, Ruby, Perl and Java
• Set up and configure a continuous integration environment.
• Architect and develop best practices for software build tools (Maven, ANT, Shell ) and continuous integration tools (Jenkins, Hudson), and infrastructure automation (VM Ware, Puppet, Chef, etc)

SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• Assist in developing best practices for software build tools (Maven, ANT, Gradle, Shell ) and continuous integration tool(CloudBees Jenkins)
• Strong scripting and automation using shell, Ruby, Perl, Python, etc.
• Strong automation skills using systems configuration management tools such as Puppet, Docker, etc.
• Experience in implementing solutions with Container Technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.
• Experience with Micro Services and building scalable Services and API's
• Experience in implementing resilient, scalable applications with innovative concepts like autoscaling, blue-green deployment, feature toggling, 12 factor application architecture, etc
• Ability automate solutions for AWS cloud
• Proven ability to create pipeline as code in Jenkins and create a library of functions for CICD and integration with Open shift platform

Skills

Agile Programming Methodologies, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Ant Build Tool, Application Programming Interface (API), Automation, Best Practices, Build Management, Business Solutions, Chef (Configuration Management), Cloud Computing, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Customer Relations, DevOps, Develop and Maintain Customers, Docker, Git, Gradle, IBM Rational ClearCase, Java, Jenkins, Microservices, Perl Programming Language, Product Demonstration, Production Systems, Programming Languages, Puppet (Configuration Management), Python Programming/Scripting Language, Ruby, Sales Pipeline, Scalable System Development, Scripting (Scripting Languages), Software Administration, Source Code/Configuration Management (SCM), Subversion, Systems Administration/Management, Team Player, Technical Leadership, Testing, Unix Shell Programming, VMWare

About the Company

Georgia Tek Systems