Remote - Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer – 12+ months – (REMOTE)

 The Contractor Senior DevOps Engineer must possess the following skills and abilities in order to perform the essential functions of the position:

• Pragmatic attitude to selecting technologies and designs; conscious of best fit for the organization and total cost of ownership as well as initial outlay; able to effectively prioritize work and triage outstanding issues.
• Experience managing multi-site, highly-available applications or services.
• Proficient in one or more of the following scripting languages (Bash, Python, Perl and PowerShell).
• Solid understanding of Cloud architectures and best practices including security.
• Familiarity with logging/application monitoring tools (AppDynamics, Splunk etc.).
• Knowledge of Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
• Experience with containerized application migrations across datacenters or deployment platforms.
• Experience with source code control platforms such as TFS and/or Git, JIRA and related Atlassian stack (Confluence, BitBucket, Bamboo).
• Strong experience with CI/CD automation technologies and tools.
• Flexibility to operate in an environment with changing demands and priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly and accurately troubleshoot system issues.
• Ability to review business needs, assess impact to operations, recommend policy changes to executives, and implement changes necessary to ensure regulatory compliance and enforcement.
• Ability to detail business needs and outcomes by assessing and documenting the current environment, including stakeholders, business processes, systems/tools, and data utilized/needed.
• Knowledge and experience of all phases of the IT system development lifecycle and the application of waterfall, agile, and hybrid methodologies.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to utilize diplomacy, tact, and professionalism when working with peers and stakeholders.
• Ability to evaluate situations from multiple perspectives (customers, stakeholders, vendors, best practices) in order to manage projects effectively.
• Ability to exercise good judgment and make timely and effective decisions.
• Ability to consistently exercise a high degree of initiative, independence, and originality in performing assigned tasks.
• Ability to multi-task and manage several complex projects concurrently with rapid response times.
• Ability to constantly re-prioritize work based on severity of issues and impact of solution.
• Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality in performing tasks.
• Proficient in the Microsoft Office suite (including Outlook, Excel, Project, PowerPoint, and Visio) and Teams.

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