Senior Dev Operations Engineer - Join a Market Leader

Title: Senior Dev Operations Engineer
Duration: 12 months

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

6+ years of overall IT experience

4+ years of AWS Cloud management experience with below skill set

AWS Certified DevOps and / or Solution Architect certification

Experience in AWS provisioning, operations, and management of AWS environments.

Experience setting up alerts / alarms / notifications in AWS cloud. CloudWatch / Dynatrace

Experience with AWS solutions using AWS services including Kafka, ECS, EKS.

Experience with IaC (Infrastructure as code) CDK or Terraform.

Experience setting up / maintaining multi AZ infrastructure including HA and DR in AWS.

Experience with code repositories Azure DevOps Server, GIT, GITLab, SVN

Experience with continuous integration tools Jenkins, Azure Pipelines

Excellent knowledge of Linux systems

Experience with system automation and configuration management tools including Ansible Experience with Python scripting

Strong background in networking, load balancing, and firewalls

High-level understanding of networking standard protocols and components such as: HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, ICMP, the OSI Model, Subnetting and Load Balancing

Thorough understanding of and experience with managing web applications in a highly available environment

Experience in Software development is a plus

Familiarity with deploying and configuring Java and .Net applications.

Experience with Application Security Testing tools a plus (Coverity, Tenable, BlackDuck, etc)

Understanding of SQL, PL/SQL, and T-SQL commands

PREFERRED SKILLS:

Passion for AWS cloud architecture, provisioning, monitoring, and maintenance management

Passion for improving software development processes and desires to automate any repetitive work you ever do. Familiarity with configuration management

Enthusiasm for working closely with developers to understand ops requirements

Experience with large project rollouts at an enterprise level

Detailed knowledge of Windows and Linux Operating Systems

Good knowledge of SCM (software configuration management)

Working knowledge of web services, web application development, Oracle database Server, multi-tier application systems

Good knowledge of software configuration, source control, and build engineering, scripting and system administration is required

Database management expertise: MS SQL Server, Oracle

Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills, including application and network-level troubleshooting ability

Technical writing skills

Knowledge/experience with troubleshooting installing and configuring SSL certificates

Understanding of TCP/IP, UDP, IP ROUTING, SSH/SFTP/SCP, DNS, FTP, SMTP

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:

Ability to think and operate as a team player

Proven track record of project delivery results

Extremely strong interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) with the ability to assess and clearly communicate technical and project risk

Ability to act as a consultant and provide recommendations to the IT / Design Team

Ability to operate as independently or as part of collaborative effort

Demonstrate strong project leadership and ability to develop strong working relationships with State Fund technical personnel

The candidate must be able to learn quickly, work in a fast-paced, team-driven environment and have the ability to communicate well with technical and non-technical personnel

Willing to work after hours and weekends (as needed) in order to deploy product releases in predefined, maintenance windows

Must be able to multi-task, manage details and keep sight of overall objectives

QUALIFICATIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS:

BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience