Senior DevOps Engineer
DataStaff Inc. is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer for a long-term contract opportunity with one of our direct clients located in the Raleigh, NC area.
*This position is hybrid
*This position is required to be on call for evenings and weekends as required to meet business needs
Responsibilities:
- Help automate and improve the environment/infrastructure provisioning, build, deploy and operation of Portfolio Applications.
- Work on the Automation effort of infrastructure and environment provisioning, containerization, build and deploy activities for portfolio applications.
- Must demonstrate a solid understanding of AWS infrastructure, services, and software release life cycle.
- Automating and performing tasks associated with the infrastructure provisioning and maintenance, build and deploy processes for the application(s) using Ansible, cloud formation, Terraform, CI/CD Pipeline etc.
- Provide hands-on Automation support to Application development teams for the entire release management life cycle across multiple program areas as well as recommend process improvements keeping Agile and DevOps culture and practices in mind.
- Work with IT management to improve the software engineering processes and practices associated with continuous integration and Continuous deployment (CI/CD) of application changes.
- Will interact with the architects, developers, deployment Team, and Database Administrators to ensure automation of various tasks
Required Skills:
- 5 Years – Strong knowledge of infrastructure including on-prem, cloud, VPN, reverse proxy, private link, firewall, OWASP.
- 5 Years – Hands-on experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Salt, Chef, Puppet using modular design such as Ansible Roles.
- 5 Years – Experience in Git based devsecops including branching strategy, branch protection rules, source code hygiene by automation, and release strategy
- 5 Years – Experience with Git commands, and can demonstrate stash, merge, interactive rebase, cherry pick.
- 3 Years – Experience in CICD tools such as GHA, Jenkins, TeamCity, or Azure Devops. Must have development experience of these tools from grounds up.
- 3 Years – Hands-on experience in IaC using tools like CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, Bicep.
- 1 Years – Administration experience w/ AWS and Azure cloud including cross-account resource sharing, identity management, ID federation, RBAC, SSO w/ SAML.
- Strong troubleshooting skills in a quick pace environment. Good team player.
Desired Skills:
- 7 Years – Knowledge and experience in J2EE-specific application hosting, application tracing/debugging, and application deployment.
This opportunity is available on a corp-to-corp basis or as a W2 position with a competitive benefits package. DataStaff, Inc. offers medical, dental, and vision coverage options as well as paid vacation, sick, and holiday leave. As many of our opportunities are long-term, we also have a 401k program available for employees after 6 months.