Senior Automation engineer

NCDHHS Senior Automation engineer Raleigh NC 6 Months #734136The max C2C bill rate is $75/hr

USC/GC/GCEAD/H4EAD




Max number of candidates: 1

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Job Description:

The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) requires the assistance of a Senior Automation engineer to help automate and improve the build deploy and operation of (NC FAST) Applications.


The primary role is to lead Automation effort of infrastructure provisioning build and deploy activities for NC FAST applications. This position must demonstrate a solid understanding of AWS infrastructure and software release life cycle.


This position will be responsible for automating and performing tasks associated with the build and deploy processes for the NCFAST application by preparing and executing build scripts using Ansiblecloud formation etc. This position will provide handson Automation support to the release and Application development teams for the entire release management lifecycle across multiple applications as well as recommend process improvements keeping Agile and DevOps culture and practices in mind.

This position will also be responsible for supporting tasks and activities for the release/build team in the Architecture and Infrastructure Unit of the NCFAST program.
The position will work with IT management to improve the software engineering processes and practices associated with continuous integration and Continuous deployment (CI/CD) of application changes. This position will interact with the architects developers deployment Team and Database Administrators to ensure automation of various tasks.


This position is required to be on call for evenings and weekends as required to meet business needs.

Required/Desired Skills:

Required Please list CI/CD (Automation) tools/technologies on which the candidate has handson experience.

Required Please list services on AWS cloud platform in which the candidate has handson experience.

Required 10yrs Experience with automating OS and software patches and upgrades across multiple environments using automations tools like Ansible

Required 3yrs Hands on Experience (like branching merging configuring and administering) with BitBucket or GIT Source Code Management tool

Required 7yrs Hands on experience in Automating build/deploy process including changes to database using tools like Ansible

Required 7yrs Knowledge and experience in J2EEspecific application hosting application tracing/debugging and application deployment.

Required 2yrs Experience with build and release activities for large number of teams

Required 7yrs Ability to prioritize tasks and manage time effectively.

Highly desired 2yrs Hands on experience developing and managing CI/CD (DevOps) pipeline using tools like Teamcity Jenkins Ansible

Highly desired 2yrs Thorough knowledge/experience with Agile SDLC processes (Scrum Kanban)

Highly desired 1yrs Strong knowledge and understanding of Amazon web Services and infrastructure