DirectClient: Texas Health and Human Services Commission(HHSC)
Solicitation#52911119R
Title: Senior DevOps Engineer/Architect
Location: 1609 Centre Creek Drive, Suite 100. Austin, TX 78754
Duration: Until 8/31/2021 with possible extension upto 8/31/2022
Last date for submission: April 21, 2021 (2.00 PM-CST)
DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES:
As a key member of the DevSecOps team, this DevOps Engineer 3 will (a) Develop, review, modify, and enhance CI/CD principles, (b) Install, configure, and maintain CI/CD tools & platforms, (c) Develop and maintain CI/CD pipeline configurations, and (d) Automate processes.
In addition, this DevOps engineer will be assigned to install, configure, build and deploy applications in support of Eligibility Supporting Technology applications. This position is central to ensuring these applications and services remain current across all development, test, training, and production environments.
This DevOps engineer will also provides environment triage support. This responsibility includes both workday and night/weekend on-call support for all development, test, training, and production environments. This service helps maintain high availability for developers, testers, trainers, and production end users.
This position works under minimal direction with considerable latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment.
Roles and Responsibilities:
1. Analyzes the technology currently being used and develops plans and processes for improvement and expansion.
2. Implements and enhances an advanced CI/CD solution. Develops, codes, tests, builds, installs, configures, and maintains IT solutions.
3. Analyzes processes, and deployments and proposes improvements to streamline code deployments and minimize errors.
4. Uses configuration management software to automatically deploy updates and fixes into the various production & non-production environments.
5. Documents processes and procedures.
CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum Requirements:
Years Required/Preferred Experience
8 Required Experience in building out an end-to-end CI/CD toolstack for both on-prem deployment and AWS/AZURE deployments
8 Required Experience with script laugages such as Groovy, Python, Shell, Ruby
8 Required Experience with Linux, Solaris and Windows operating systems
8 Required Experience in mentoring and working with other team members in an Agile environment
5 Required Experience building and deploying applications involving WebSphere Portal Server, WAS (WebSphere Application Server), SQL (Structured Query Language), Business Process Management (BPM), ODM, Datapower and MQ
4 Required Experience in implementing Jenkins, GitHub, Gitlab, Nexus, Artifactory, Jfrog, Xray, Cloudbees CI/CD, SonarQube, Fortify and VeraCode
3 Required Experience with Containers and Container orchestration Kubernetes platforms such as Docker EE/Openshift/Rancher
3 Required Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Ansible, CloudFormation or Terraform
3 Required Experience with IBM Websphere Application Server 7/8, Tomcat, WebLogic Administration, configuration and troubleshooting
1 Required Experience with installing and maintaining DevSecOps tools on Kubernetes platform using Helm Charts
3 Preferred Experience developing and supporting large, mission critical applications, transaction processing applications is preferred.