We are looking for a Full-time contractor or employee for a DevOps Engineer role.
Level Description:
Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals, independently performs a variety of complicated tasks, a wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.
Job Description:
Works with IT developers to facilitate better coordination among operations, development, and testing functions by automating and streamlining integration and deployment processes. DevOps aims at coupling a tighter alignment between IT operations and businesses.
The position requires solid automation background in DEVSECOPS area. This involves architecture, design, development and integration of tools and technologies to achieve “end-to-end” DEVSECOPS process automation. It will require on-demand standup and on-demand decommissioning of environment as single “unit” comprising of multiple components of infrastructure, databases, middleware, messaging, data and applications layers – all of which will need to be automated and orchestrated as part of DEVSECOPS pipeline run. The automation produced will be exercised on-demand and frequently to standup, modify, restore, and decommission environment. Multiple instances of environment standard environments will be active at the same time to support different projects and release levels. Environment will need to be expressed as set of definition files and scripts in our Git instance for versioning, branching and merging and governance. Past experience of designing and implementing a similar initiative is required. The position will require to use approved tools and technologies including Jenkins, Ansible Tower, Ansible, Terraform and Terragrunt and supporting components. The environments will be used to meet the needs of parallel development using Java-based technologies and a mix of modernized and legacy applications running on WebSphere ND platform and Oracle databases on Red Hat Linux VMs on VMWare ESX. Experience with transition to JBOSS, containerization, persistent volumes is a definite plus but not mandatory. Support for AWS based Compute and Storage in place of VMware/VSAN will also be required to extend automation capability to for a hybrid data center support. Automation must also support for execution of test cases to verify general health of environment as well as applications.
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 provide 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.
Roles and Responsibilities:
1. Architect, design, develop and integrate tools and technologies to achieve “end-to-end” DEVSECOPS process automation and on-demand standup and decommissioning of environment as single “unit”.
2. Analyze the technology and point solutions in their current state, develop plans and processes for improvement and expansion as needed.
3. Support Application Development Life Cycle for concurrent application development targeting multiple future releases.
4. Document processes and procedures.
Skills(Required):
- Experience in Architecting, designing, developing and integrating tools and technologies to achieve “end-to-end” DEVSECOPS process automation and on-demand standup and decommissioning of environment as single “unit”.
- Experience automating and tool chaining using Git, Jenkins, Ansible, ansible Tower, Terraform and Terragrunt
- Experience integrating Artifactory for images, 3rd party libraries and other artifacts
- Experience with WebSphere ND, MQ, Liquibase
- Familiarity with Containers and Container orchestration Kubernetes platforms such as PODMAN, docker, EE/OpenShift/Rancher
- Experience with script languages such as Groovy, Python, Shell, Ruby
- Experience with Linux, Solaris and Windows operating systems
- Familiarity with WebSphere Liberty, Tomcat, JBOSS
- Familiarity with containerization and with installing and maintaining DevSecOps tools on Kubernetes platform using Helm Charts
- Experience in IT automated solutions design
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Skills(Preferred):
- Experience with coding languages and environments including but not limited to Java, J2EE, EJB (Enterprise Java Beans), JSP (JavaServer Pages / Stored Procedures).
- Experience with coding languages and environments including but not limited to JSF/Struts (JavaServer Faces, Apache Struts Framework), XML (eXtensible Markup Language),