Senior DevOps Engineer

Immediate need for a talented Senior DevOps Engineer. This is a 06+months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in McLean, VA(Hybrid). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.
Job ID: 24-41777
Pay Range: $70 - $75/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• Support operations by providing a resilient, highly available, and performing platform resulting in exceeding established metrics, customer requirements and financial objectives
• Partner with Product and Business team members to ensure high quality product is developed and released into production
• Work closely with Architecture, Customers, Operations, and Product to specify and document solutions and practices
• Promote a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps culture to enhance and operate cloud platform offerings to the enterprise while working toward innovation, automation, and operational excellence
• Participate in design reviews of architecture patterns for service/application deployment in loud (AWS)
• Collaborate with platform pillar leads in core platform, container orchestration, monitoring, and databases to build-out the platform
• Automate for efficiency and reliability and utilize CI/CD tooling as appropriate
• Participate in platform administration and Operations including troubleshooting of Complex issues within the Cloud environment
• Participate in On Call support as part of Operations Support
• Work with Product Owners to understand the desired capability, to define and prioritize work, determine deliverables, and manage workloads
• Deliver and maintain standard operating procedures and assist in troubleshooting issues
• Participate in on-call activities as needed for major incident resolution and problem management.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• Key Skills; Devops, AWS, Jenkins, Kubernetes
• 8+ years of overall information technology experience with a 2+ year emphasis on integration and delivery of public cloud
• 4 +years of experience with Kubernetes and Containerization Technologies (Kubernetes, AWS(ECS/EKS) etc) at scale is must
• 4+years of experience with AWS core services like EC2, EKS, S3, Lambda, EMR, IAM cloud formation, Terraform, or similar tools
• 4+years of experience with DevOps skills Jenkins, Helm, and Atlassian tools (Bitbucket, Artifactory, Jira and Confluence)
• Experience with Python, Ansible and shell scripting to automate routine operation tasks.
• Experience in ETL tools like Snowflake, Dremio, Talend, Attunity is good to have
• FFIP & DataSync part of AWS
• Ability to provide 24x7 operational support on periodic basis and triage complex issues to restore availability is must
• Proactive in nature with customer satisfaction as primary goal is must
• Keen focus on automation is must
• DevOps (IAC, CFTs): Developing and deploying CFTs, Infrastructure as Code, serverless etc
• AWS Cloud Native Development: Developing AWS serverless applications lambda, SNS, SQS, etc
• AWS Serverless Development: Developing AWS serverless applications lambda, SNS, SQS, etc
• Container and Kubernetes workloads (EKS): Creating ECS or EKS clusters or OCP, managing clusters (upgrades, patches etc)
• Documentation of Engineering Solutions and Designs
• Ability to communicate clearly, effectively, persuasively with technology and business partners
• Excellent collaborator and fantastic teammate
• Able to deliver and apply risk-based approach to prioritize work
• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies, and identify process improvements and efficiencies opportunities
• Ability to adapt to change while continuing to deliver on assigned objectives
• Works under minimal supervision.
• Able to provide technical guidance to the team
• Strong written and oral communications skills.

Our client is a leading Financial Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

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