Senior Technical Consultant DevOps

Senior Technical Consultant DevOps

Job Description

• Responsible for the design and implementation of applications’ build, release, deployment, and configuration activities. Also include working with internal business partners to gather requirements, prototyping, architecting, implementing/updating solutions, building and executing test plans, performing quality reviews, managing operations, and triaging and fixing operational issues.
• Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration
• Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services
• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service
• Expertise in multiple technical environments and possesses business knowledge that spans multiple business areas.
• Experience designing, developing, testing, and deploying applications/ systems using proven or emerging technologies, in a variety of technologies and environments.
• Experience with automation tools.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills.
• Requires working knowledge of two or more programming languages
• Leads complex projects/programs that require multiple areas of expertise.

Responsibilities

• Support and improve our SCM/Build & Deployment tooling for continuous integration, automated testing and automated self-service release management.
• Develop and Maintain DevOps tools used
• Support Site Reliability team
• Manage multiple Dev, QA Environments
• Collaborate with developers and architects
• Develop and update automated build and release management systems and tools.
• Manage multiple concurrent releases/builds from early development through to online availability
• Collaborate with developers and architects to refine build, test, and release practices across the organization

Technologies/Skills Required

• Expert knowledge and experience with Software Version Control systems: SVN, GIT, etc. (Git and GitHub/Gitlab knowledge is a plus)
• Experience maintaining large clusters using configuration tools such as: Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt, etc.
• Experience maintaining automated build systems such as Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity or RunDeck
• Knowledge of Virtualization technologies like VMWare Fusion, KVM, Xen, Vagrant, Docker
• Strong Linux experience: ssh, monitoring processes, attaching storage, cleaning disk space, tailing logs, etc.
• Knowledge of Java Build Systems and Tools including: Gradle, Maven, Ant, SBT, etc.
• Knowledge of WebServers and LoadBalancers Apache HTTP Server, Apache Traffic Server, Nginx, HAProxy
• Experience working with server clusters consisting of hundreds or thousands of machines
• A desire to write tools and applications to automate work rather than do everything by hand.
• Familiarity with Splunk for investigating or monitoring problems on systems.
• Ability to use and create web applications using REST, JSON, or similar protocols.
• Experience implementing Continuous Integration or Continuous Delivery processes in large engineering teams.
• Experience managing and integrating test automation into various points in a deployment pipeline.
• Knowledge of Java Code Coverage Tools: Jacoco, Sonar, or Clover.
• Experience with Java test frameworks such as JUnit.
• Experience implementing Java server applications using tools such as: Jersey, Jetty, ZooKeeper, JDBC, using cloud deployment tools.
• Knowledge of Orchestration tools like Mesos, Marathon, Aurora is a plus
• Strong experience with Oracle and NoSQL (NoSQL experience with Mongo, Cassandra etc)
• Code and script (Shell, PHP, Python, Perl, and/or Ruby)
• Experience with monitoring systems such as Sensu, Nagios, Grafana, Graphite, AppDynamics
• Solid understanding of fundamental network protocols like TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, DNS

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree is the minimum requirement; post-graduate degree is preferred
• 5 years of experience in release engineering and/or configuration management supporting a high volume web-facing property.
• 5 years of experience in Environment Support (Application Server Installation, Troubleshooting - all Linux
• Strong working knowledge with scripting languages, specifically shell, Perl, and Python.
• Experience in Deployment and ensuring High availability of applications.
• Demonstrated experience developing automated build and release management systems and tools.
• A passion for automation and agile methods.
• Has excellent written and verbal communication skills and comfortable communicating effectively at senior levels in the organization.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.