Location: Atlanta, GA
Type: 9 months contract on W2
The Client is seeking candidates for the temporary contractor position of Client Senior Dev Ops CI/CD Engineer in Atlanta, Georgia.
Summary:
As a Sr. Dev Ops CICD Pipeline Engineer, you will have an essential role in integrating the project functions and resources across the product life cycle: planning, building, testing, deployment, support, and management of technology-based business solutions to meet business and technical requirements for Client program initiatives. This role requires excellent communication and coordination skills to successfully integrate various functions in a coordinated manner and deliver the responsibilities to the customer's satisfaction. The DevOps/CICD Engineer will undertake complex projects requiring additional specialized technical knowledge and decision making on complex or ambiguous application deployment issues.
Skill Required / Desired Amount of Experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience. Required
- Experience in AWS DevOps, implementation and management of CI/CD pipelines. Required 5 Years
- Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP or CNCF/Kubernetes certifications. Highly desired
- Strong background in Linux/UNIX administration (e.g. RedHat/CentOS 7/Alpine Linux). Required 6 Years
- GitHub, GitHub Actions, Workflows, Jira, AWS DevOps, Visual Studio Code/ Professional, Salesforce, and IntelliJ w/ Illuminated Cloud. Required
- Strong Windows and Linux skills, to be successful, you must be very comfortable on a Linux server and able to easily navigate around Required 6 Years
- Salesforce Admin or Developer Certification Required
- Experience in relevant field. Required 10 Years
- Ansible experience, Terraform/CloudFormation for IaaS code solutions Required 5 Years
- Hands-on experience with at least one of the following languages: Node.js, AngularJS, PHP, Ruby, and Java. Proficient with Git and Git workflows. Required
CI/CD Engineering:
- Build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline).
- Select and deploy appropriate CI/CD tools.
- Troubleshoot techniques and fix deficiencies.
- Incidence management and root cause analysis as it relates to the CI/CD Pipeline.
Development & Operations:
- Identify and build automated processes and act as the expert in software delivery.
- Implement various development, testing, and automation tools within IT infrastructure.
- Set up tools and required infrastructure.
- Define and set development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation.
- Identify and deploy cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management as it pertains to the CI/CD Pipeline.
- Communicate with all parties involved including senior management, developers, architects, and end users, who may be based in different locations and time zones.
- Coordinate with and responsible for communicating with other teams within Client and vendors as needed.
- Creating and updating applicable technical documentation. Review technical documents produced by vendors.
Leadership
- Ability to work autonomously and make decisions within the CI/CD pipeline.
- Serve as a mentor and guide to team members.
- Coordinate and communicate with team and customers.
- Manage stakeholders and external interfaces.
- Operate as gatekeeper of the deployment pipeline.
- Plan team structure, activities, and involvement in project management activities.
Administration
- Monitor processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and update or create new processes for improvement and efficiency.
- Monitor and measure customer experience and KPIs.
- Manage periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer.
Experience Required for the Job
- 10+ years of work experience in relevant field.
- 5+ years of experience in AWS DevOps, implementation and management of CI/CD pipelines.
- As needed ability to run the manual build/deploy and support deployment activities for all releases and coordinate with the development teams, provide successful deployment signoffs.
- Build the branching strategy for the application teams to adapt and accommodate to meet the needs of the teams.
- Required knowledge of the following tools: GitHub, GitHub Actions, Workflows, Jira, AWS DevOps, Visual Studio Code/Professional, Salesforce, and IntelliJ w/ Illuminated Cloud.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and conceptual skills.
- Very strong interpersonal skills and ability to work well with others within and across the organization.
- Automation of CICD pipelines in AWS environments using necessary tools, Jenkins, AWS Code Pipeline.
- Ansible experience, Terraform/CloudFormation for IaaS code solutions.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an ability to express complex technical concepts in business terms.
- Preferred experience in Containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), System Integration (API or SDK), System Scripting, Basic Networking, and Unit Testing.
- Hands-on experience with at least one configuration/deployment management system e.g., Ansible, Terraform/CloudFormation, or other similar tools.
- Hands-on experience with at least one of the following languages: Node.js, AngularJS, PHP, Ruby, and Java. Proficient with Git and Git workflows.
- Creation of Docker files, Container images and a container image repository.
- Proficiency in leveraging automated testing tools to automate testing.
- Experience with Java, Spring framework, spring boot code to do a build using maven scripts.
- Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in multiple integration and test (I&T) environments.
- Install, configure, and manage Kubernetes clusters supporting the CI/CD deployment pipelines.
- Install, configure, and manage additional CI/CD tools in the environment e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, Cucumber.
- Install, configure, and manage automated testing tools in the environment.
- Strong background in Linux/UNIX administration (e.g. RedHat/CentOS 7/Alpine Linux).
- Experience with configuration management tools like Puppet and Ansible.
- Knowledge of one or more scripting languages (bash, PowerShell, Python).
Desirable experience:
- Industry vendor certifications are desired (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP or CNCF/Kubernetes certifications); although not essential if you have the experience and demonstrate the ability to work on these technologies.
Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
- Salesforce Admin or Developer Certification.
