DevOps Engineer – Data Platform

*Must be US GC or US Citizen
*Cannot Sponsor. Cannot do C2C.
*Fully Remote. EST Hours

Our client, a Big 4 Consulting firm is currently seeking for a DevOps Engineer to join their internal team. Please read details below.

Minimum Degree Required:

• Bachelor Degree or 7 years of professional experience involving technology-focused process improvements, transformations, and/or system implementations
• Degree Preferred: Masters Degree

Minimum Years of Experience:

• 5 year(s)

The right candidate must demonstrate extensive knowledge and a proven record of success in improving and managing the productivity of technology processes and business processes by creating highly automated workflows for software development and operations including the following areas:

• CI/CD toolchains centered around tools such as Azure Pipelines, Jenkins;
• Enabling DevOps tools such as Gitlab, Github, Artifactory, Sonarqube, Fortify/Veracode, Vault;
• Operations tools (e.g. Splunk, ELK stack, New Relic, App Dynamics, Data Dog, Grafana);
• Test automation tools (e.g. Selenium, Qualitia);
• Agile software development practices;
• Configuration management tools (such as Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible);
• Cloud infrastructure and container-based infrastructures including containerization on frameworks like Kubernetes
• Lean IT principles and data driven approaches;
• Administering Linux OS to include network and software application configuration;
• Configuring continuous integration within a development environment using tools such as VSTS, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, Git and Nexus;
• Automating repetitive development, operations and deployment tasks;
• Documenting systems and networks, refining requirements, self-identify solutions and communicating to the team;
• Managing databases, including database design, creation, manipulation and query; and,
• Utilizing enterprise tools (such as BPM or ESB tools) for orchestration of services and workflows, as well as messaging queues (e.g. RabbitMQ).
• Hands on experience with microservices Architecture and design, REST APIs, cloud development, Security, Testing, and deployments in high throughput environments and deploying on cloud and kubernetes
• Preferred experience working with Java, Python, Kafka, Spring Boot, Azure, AKS(Kubernetes)
• Exposure and experience working with:
• DevOps environments with high degree of automation of CI/CD pipelines, build promotions and code quality testing
• Exposure to using cloud development, Kubernetes, Dockers and Terraform scripting for deployments in development, QA, and Production
• Strong experience with Knative, Docker (Docker compose, yamls, etc) and container orchestration tools (Kubernetes, AKS, EKS etc.)
• Strong experience with cloud technologies and management (Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Demonstrated knowledge & experience of Linux servers, specifically RHEL/CentOS, TCP/IP, HTTP, and experience supporting multi-tier web application architectures.
• Experience in handling services in a large scale environment.

Demonstrates extensive abilities and a proven record of success automating workflows and identifying process improvements, which includes the following areas:

• Demonstrating desire to keep learning, maintain own skill set, stay up to date and expand one’s knowledge across the full stack;
• Demonstrating desire to improve the ‘status quo’, especially automating and improving software development and operations processes to achieve massively higher delivery velocity and operations quality;
• Managing and analyzing existing processes to identify automation opportunities across multiple platforms and technologies;
• Contributing to thought leadership through participation in the development of technology processes;
• Developing reporting to measure the effectiveness of the toolchain on dev and ops;
• Applying continuous independent judgement while collaborating with others, and influencing others within the project and domain teams; and
• Building and leveraging relationships as well as specialist level verbal and written communication skills.