DevOps Engineer

Job Title: DevOps Engineer I

Job Location: Houston Texas 77002 (Fully Onsite)

Job Duration: 12 Months with the possibility of further extension

Note : #W2 only ; no C2C or third parties

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are looking for experienced DevOps Engineer(s) with deep technical know-how and hands-on experience implementing various practices, frameworks and tools to help build and support our CI/CD/CT pipelines to enable application deployments, automate infrastructure provisioning, and improve the scalability and reliability of our applications.

Responsibilities:

• Work with development and support teams to design and implement deployment, provisioning, and integration workflows; ensure environments are stable, properly configured and secure, and identify areas for improvement.
• Build and maintain tools and solutions associated with deployment and our DevOps platform.
• Update our processes and design new processes as needed to optimize performance of our CI/CD/CT pipelines.
• Partner with internal stakeholders to develop best practices to manage and reduce security risks by developing and integrating global security controls into our CI/CD/CT pipelines.
• Prepare environments for development, testing, user acceptance testing, performance, scalability and reliability analysis, and ensure that environments are stable, production-like and available for development and QA teams.
• Establish DevOps Engineer team best practices and document DevOps processes, procedures and workflows to maintain consistency.
• Work with internal stakeholders across various organizations contributing to the development and management of the organization's incident management and disaster recovery processes.
• Support monitoring tools for application and infrastructure stability, reliability and security with automated analysis, problem detection and alert generation.
• Actively troubleshoot any issues that arise and work with development teams to expedite fixes.

Qualifications:

• At least 3 years demonstrated success in related IT profession, including substantial DevOps experience and release management practices for enterprise teams.
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent work experience.
• Strong Experience applying DevOps and CI/CD concepts and building CI/CD pipelines with source control such as GIT and Azure DevOps/TFS Experience with Docker containerization, Kubernetes, ServiceMesh, API Gateway and Proxy Server.
• Experience with encryption, SSL/TLS, OpenSSL, key and secret management.
• Experience with application and system profiling/monitoring tools and techniques, scaling and optimization techniques.
• Familiarity with Agile development practices, Scrum/Kanban or other Agile work decomposition and management methodologies
• Experience planning, implementing and maintaining deployment processes for large enterprise multi-tier distributed applications, including experience with IIS, messaging systems and databases.
• Strong general IT application and networking knowledge, including load balancing, networking, Microsoft Active Directory, messaging middleware and virtualization technologies such as VMWare vSphere.
• Strong knowledge of SQL Server (or other RDBMS) configuration, administration, backups and recovery.
• Experience working/communicating with global teams.
• Communicates and collaborates effectively to management, peers and team members.