Senior DevOps Engineer

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The Senior DevOps Engineer is responsible for configuration, deployment and maintenance of the Services Delivery Platform web applications. This position requires excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Other Duties May Be Assigned.

1. Manage AWS EC2 assets
2. Create infrastructure/pipelines for new services (SpringBoot, Python, Angular)
3. Deploy services on DEV/STAGE/PROD environments.
4. Manage the installation and configuration of solutions.
5. Troubleshoot failure cases on Development/UAT and Production environments
6. Monitor platform health and metrics using Prometheus/Grafana tools
7. Refactor pipelines, scripts to make them stable and reusable
8. Document utilized approach and solution
9. Participate in discussions about solutions to support developer applications and needs
10. Participate in release management process
11. Deploy code and troubleshoot any issue that arises

Basic Qualifications

1. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent professional experience
2. Seven or more years of DevOps experience, with a focus on Microservices deployment and maintenance
3. Prior experience working with Linux, Docker, Swarm, Ansible
4. Experience with configuration and support of EC2 in AWS, Jenkins, GitLab, Elastic stack
5. Experience with the following technologies: Postgres, Cassandra, Scripts (bash, Groovy, Python), nginx, Tomcat, Haproxy, Consul, Nexus, LDAP, Kafka, Prometheus, and/or Grafana
6. Excellent technical, diagnostic, troubleshooting, and documentation skills
7. Knowledge of portal software, design, and development
8. US Citizenship for this position is required by law due to federal customer contracts

Preferred Qualifications

1. Four or more years of experience working with Microservices architecture
2. Prior experience determining project requirements and developing work schedules for the team
3. Experience with GPU/CUDA, WebRTC, Forgerock AM
4. Experience managing offshore DevOps personnel

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

1. Excellent interpersonal skills (communication, conflict resolution, negotiation, etc.) when dealing with internal and/or external audiences at all levels of management
2. Use organizational skills to determine prioritization and appropriate multitasking.
3. Focus on scope, tone, and quality of processes and their respective documentation, as well as the associated goals, priorities, deadlines, and weaknesses.
4. Ability to work independently, with supervision, on a project of varying complexity.

TOTAL REWARDS

This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending and HSA accounts; paid holidays; paid time off; paid volunteer days; employee assistance program; tuition assistance; parental leave; military leave assistance; QTS scholarship for dependents; wellness program, and other company benefits.

This position is Bonus eligible.

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