DevOps Engineer Lead
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***THIS ROLE IS FOR A DIRECT CLIENT***
***CANDIDATES WITHIN 25 MILES FROM MCLEAN, VA ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY***
***THIS ROLE REQUIRES THE DEVELOPER TO BE ONSITE (HYBRID), 3 DAYS A WEEK***
DevOps Engineer Lead
Duration: 6 months. CTH.
Location: Onsite (Hybrid) in McLean, VA on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
Schedule: Standard. Some after hours and weekend work will be there 1 2 times a month. This will be comped with an alternate time off.
Years of experience: 7+
Must Have: 7+ AWS Infrastructure, Tools Installation (Jenkins, Artifactory and Atlassian) and building pipelines for microservices using Jenkins, automation, SDLC, Unix, CFT, Python, Groovy, SonarQube and Jira workflow automation. Java (preferred)
Your Impact:
- Build to sustainability/DevOps engineering functions that is responsible for platform availability, scale, and performance.
- Build tools to lead through automation and proactive/predictive alerts by having a strong data analytical tool set to identify areas of improvement.
- Build to improve the systems health such as self-healing, resiliency, continuous feedback.
- Lead to instrument APM in prod and non-prod with dashboards including but not limited to key performance indicators, alters with thresholds and tolerances, user patterns & usages etc.
- Implement comprehensive service monitoring to ensure uptime and performance, including but not limited to synthetic transactions, real users, system, application performance, dashboards etc.
- Define, measure, and meet key service level objectives including availability, performance, incidents, and chronic problems.
- Ensure robust capacity planning models are defined for key platforms and regularly measure customer site performance and capacity and ensuring that there is no downtime due to capacity.
- Own end-to-end availability and performance of critical platform services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence; eventually automate response to all non-exceptional service conditions.
- Experienced in coding, scripting, and automating with languages including Groovy, Ansible, Selenium, VuGen and shell scripting experience, for automation of routine operations and tasks within the enterprise environment.
- Proficient in CI/CD pipeline development with use of Jenkins and Spinnaker tools; to support microservice deployments into Amazon EKS and/or OpenShift Console environments.
- Experienced with code quality, code coverage, security scan (SAST/DAST) scanning tools such as; Fortify, Checkmarx, SonarQube.
- Experience with code and release management tools (e.g. Git, Bitbucket, CI/CD, Helm, Spinnaker, Jenkins, Jira).
- Lead technical teams with a focus on productivity, cost optimization on infrastructure and efficiency.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors or advanced degree or directly relevant professional experience.
- 10+ years of experience in delivering solutions using Software Development Life Cycle.
- 5+ years of experience working with complex SQL queries, AWS and Unix environments.
- Proven experience with operational and organizational management, team leadership, and enterprise-wide technology strategy.
- Possess good interpersonal and collaboration skills with strong communication skills at levels ranging from senior leadership to product team members.
- Knowledge and experience working with AWS, Python and Java.
- Strong writing skills. Detail driven with respect to documentation.
- Desire to expand knowledge & skillset in cloud-based technologies & patterns.
Keys to Success in this Role:
- Takes accountability, sets expectations, and delivers high quality technical solutions within agreed upon level of effort.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
- Derive excitement and thrive in a fast-paced and constantly evolving culture.
- Outstanding interpersonal, technical, and organizational skills.
- Passion for driving value to customers and excitement for modern digital processes (Agile) and deliver.