DevSecOps Engineer

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ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Experienced in various AWS services and tools, including support for Tier-3 escalations with vendors, solid skills, and experience with Kubernetes/Openshift and various CI/CD tools to ensure continuous compliance and delivery.
• Deep understanding into the inner workings of OpenShift, working on managing operators, customizing OpenShift installations and addressing feature requests with automation wherever possible
• Primary focus on the Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) activities within the Continuous Delivery Pipeline.
• Assist in tuning and resolving the bottlenecks for various operational and performance challenges.
• This role is responsible for managing configuration items for the project.
• Establish and maintain consistency of a product's performance, functional, and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information throughout its life.
• Develop and maintain the Configuration Management Plans and release management processes to promote validated features and deploy them into the production environment following the CMS Agile XLC.
• Control, plan and direct all aspects of planned software updates and code promotions, ensuring that only approved and validated changes are introduced. Work closely with CCB. Present at ORR and IRR.
• Support in enhancing the platform functions and operations, continuously evolving in terms of ease of operations, improved performance, and monitoring the workloads simplified.
• Also, support the on-call rotation model during the peak and non-peak periods for continued operations.
• Full-stack knowledge is a plus to help manage DevSecOps workflow that deploys containerized applications to OpenShift.

Responsibilities:

• Be a part of the team that will provide engineering solutions for OpenShift towards operations and onboarding.
• Onboarding business workloads, support troubleshoot and triage problems.
• Be a part of the team that provide multitier support (Tier 1 to Tier 3), including the 24/7 escalation schedule.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as code using Lambda, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform and Puppet.
• Design automated, containerized cloud application platform solutions and integrate workloads to containerized workflows with automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with Agile scrum teams or tenants to establish and manage Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
• Integrate code analysis tools such as Sonar Cube, Fortify into the CI/CD pipelines.
• Provide access management to Infrastructure and DevOps tools.
• Troubleshoot Infrastructure issues, collaborate with AWS support for resolution.
• Develop automation to reduce the routine manual effort.
• Provide recommendations for enhancing system performance via analysis and potential modifications.
• Develop solution for Monitoring, Alerting, and Trending with AWS Cloudwatch, SNS, New Relic and Splunk etc..
• Engineering resources are expected to be available 24/7 for incident response during mission- critical events, commensurate with standard Marketplace SLOs / SLAs during the events.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:

• 8+ years of IT experience
• 4+ years of relevant experience.
• DevOps Experience in AWS Cloud environment is a must using services like EC2, AWS S3, IAM, VPC Peering, RDS, NAT Gateway etc..
• In depth knowledge in Openshift/Kubernetes, preferably 4.x, ArgoCD and GitOps
• Experience with System configuration tools like Ansible.
• Experience in creating Build, Deployment config files for applications on OpenShift.
• Firsthand experience in building CI/CD pipelines with Red Hat OpenShift/OCP
• Proficient scripting skills in Perl/python/shell scripting
• Good communication skills, self-motivated and positive attitude to work independently in a team environment.
• Languages Frameworks: Java, Python, Go, Bash Scripting, Ansible Playbooks, etc.
• Tools (Plus): New Relic, Splunk, Ansible Automation Platform, Jenkins.
• Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
• Candidates must have lived in the United States 3 out of the past 5 years

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Comprehensive understanding of cloud delivery models: PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS.
• Knowledge, skills, and abilities to deploy OpenShift Container Platform in both public and private cloud.
• AWS Sysops administrator, DevOps engineer certifications are a plus.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS:

• Bachelors in computer science, Information Technology or equivalent.

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