DevOps Engineer Senior

Job Title: DevOps Engineer Senior

Location: McLean, VA (Hybrid)

Duration: 12 Months

Job Description:

Must Haves:

• JAVA or Python
• Service provider
• Self-sufficient troubleshooter

Description Work:

As an experienced Java and Python developer:

• Implement, maintain, support and enhance the DevOps toolchain as a part of the DevOps mantra of automation, especially automation fabric and CI/CD pipeline consisting of Docker, Gradle, GitLab, Jenkins, Artifactory, Ansible, Redmine, JAVA, Python, Ruby, BASH and FitNesse.
• Become a valuable member of Nimble DevOps’ Client Facing practice as DevOps Generalist supporting a development community of 300+ engineers.
• Address Nimble Development community’s requests and needs by:
• Facing the Nimble community and provide consultancy to the Nimble Development community.
• Updating Playbook.
• Troubleshooting and being the go-to person for Development teams.
• Acquiring resource (database, NAS, firewall rule) that’s outside of Nimble’s realm by working closely with other support teams.
• Assisting in resolving automated alerts in production and non-production environments of Nimble.
• Participating in Nimble Trains deployments.
• Updating Nimble documentation.
• Contribute to the overall success of team and organization’s goals by meeting Nimble DevOps’ goals.

Your Impact:

• Onboard and support various development teams to fully utilize and maximize the value add of Nimble, the fully automated development lifecycle methodology.
• Become the subject matter Nimble expert to the development community.
• Provide a one-stop service to anyone delivering software solutions driven by business in a timely, efficient and agile manner.
• Collaborate with the internal community and empower it to economically and effectively meet business needs using Nimble.
• Provide consultancy throughout the entire lifecycle, especially in:
• Application architecture and software containerization.
• Technology: Docker, Gradle, GitLab, Jenkins, Artifactory, Ansible, Redmine, JAVA, Python, Ruby, BASH, FitNesse.
• Iterative and test-driven development.
• Continuous integration and deployment.
• Automated testing.
• Maintain and extend Nimble’s automation fabric.
• Enhance tools for:
• Project workflow.
• Source code and artifacts management.
• Development workflow.
• Continuous build and integration.
• Test automation.
• Continuous delivery and deployments.
• Participate in development forums to identify and remove community’s pain points.
• Provide complete solutions that reduce manual interventions while injecting significant business value to the entire organization.
• Improve documentation and self help.

Control and maintain production environment’s integrity, embracing the extended support model:

• Closely liaise with Incident Management to reduce downtime.
• Collect production uptime metrics and present trends.
• Provide 24x6 L2 support.

Qualifications:

• 5yrs+ JAVA and/or Python development experience in a Linux environment with expertise in Docker, Gradle (Maven) and Jenkins under RedHat.
• 5yrs+ Service provider experience.
• 5yrs+ experience with iterative development and automated build pipelines.
• 3yrs+ automated software testing (FitNesse is an advantage).
• BSc in Computer Science or similar.

Key to Success in the Role:

• Technical competency with solid process orientation.
• Impeccable troubleshooting skills.
• Intellectual agility and interpersonal flexibility.
• Strong consultation and communications skills.
• Ability to collaborate and develop long-term relationships.
• Curiosity to learn and instill new paradigms in others.