Job Detail

Job Description

• Provide technical leadership to DevOps team by planning and design of DevOps toolset and automation.
• Participate in architecture and security reviews for DevOps Projects
• Evangelize cloud technologies and CI/CD solutions for wider engineering teams
• Focus on developing tools and processes for secure development practice.
• Collaborate with multiple feature development teams to identify needs for building and deploying their applications.
• Deploy and configure daily iterative builds of applications and containers into Tomcat server and Kubernetes clusters for multiple feature development teams. Deploy and configure MongoDB test databases with test data.
• Design and implement automation for deployment and configuration tasks.
• Identify cloud infrastructure needs for deployment environments and manage cost.
• Troubleshoot failed builds and deployments. Determine and fix environment and configuration issues. Analyze logs and communicate potential code issues to development teams.
• Facilitate, manage and communicate information related to environments - their current state, deployed versions and availability to developers, QA engineers and team members.
• Own and execute Bitbucket, Artifactory and Jenkins-based software configuration and release activities in central Git repositories and Jenkins builds, branching, tagging, building, releasing.
• Support services and applications 24/7 by participating in an on-call rotation.

Skills & Experience

The ideal Principal DevOps Engineer candidate is someone who has had hands-on development experience using contemporary open-source Java enterprise technologies, and who has transitioned into the operations aspect of development with knowledge and a keen interest in the automation of deployment and configuration of Java applications in AWS environments. The role requires a versatile skillset that includes providing technical direction in designing CI/CD solution, problem solving, programming, and troubleshooting skills. The role also requires effective coordination and communication with multiple teams.

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent
• 5+ years with some of the following technologies JAVA, JavaScript, Json, Groovy, Python, Bash, Chef, Docker and Kubernetes Experience developing and supporting Java based applications
• Strong knowledge with scripting languages, preferably python and groovy
• Expertise with build tools like Gradle, Maven, Npm
• Strong experience in deploying and supporting production applications in a public cloud, preferably AWS
• Hands on experience with Terraform
• Expert knowledge of AWS services including EC2, ECS, EKS, Fargate, IAM, CloudWatch, SQS, SNS, S3 Container orchestration experience is required preferably with Kubernetes
• Experience with Blue/Green deployments is preferred
• Experience with CI/CD tools and automation methodologies, specifically Jenkins
• Strong knowledge of Docker and the container ecosystem
• Excellent operational knowledge of Linux operating systems
• Some experience with secrets/key management preferably with Hashicorp Vault
• Administration and automation skills with developer tools like Bitbucket, Artifactory
• Experience with CI/CD automation for DevSecOps tools like Sonar, Blackduck

Skills Required