Cloud DevOps W2

About the job

Duration: 6 Month Contract to Hire W2!!!!

Location: Washington, DC (2 days on site)

Job Title

Cloud DevOps

Top Skills Details

Labor Category Requirements:

•Must have experience managing development activities and be proficient in applying the SDLC and DevOps principles.

•Minimum 6+ years directly aligned to implementing DevOps pipelines and administering the supporting toolsets, with 10+ years experience within IT (preferably developing applications vs. building out infrastructure).

•Knowledge to design, build and maintain a stable and efficient cloud infrastructure (AWS in particular) to optimize service delivery using code (Infrastructure as Code). Work with Security Engineers and DevSecOps engineers closely in a DevSecOps model

•Monitor, troubleshoot, maintain, and continuously improve building, packaging, and deployments.

Knowledge of deployment/configuration management tools like Jenkins, Maven, Puppet, or Ansible. Utilizes version control tools like GIT, Bitbucket, SVN, or CVS.

•Experienced with network infrastructure, database, and cloud.

Description

Candidates filling this role will provide operations and maintenance support for the agency’s enterprise DevSecOps pipeline which consists of Atlassian Confluence and Jira, GitHub Enterprise, SonarQube, JFrog Artifactory, and CloudBees Jenkins. This includes patching the supporting servers and software, supporting project teams looking to establish deployment pipelines enabling infrastructure as code, and providing consultative support on DevSecOps best practices.

Top Qualifications, Skills, Experience or Certifications:

• 6+ years experience as a DevOps engineer supporting pipeline management for business applications that are deployed within AWS, with 10+ years total in information technology developing and deploying applications

• Demonstrated proficiency configuring and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using the following software GitHub Enterprise, CloudBees Jenkins, SonarQube, JFrog Artifactory, and Invicti

• Proficiency using CloudBees Ops Center and configuring Jenkins agents and controllers

• Proficiency with code branching and merging strategies within GitHub

• Proficiency managing and configuring projects within Atlassian Jira and Confluence and providing administrative support to teams using the tools

• Understanding of serverless architectures within AWS and their management through DevOps pipelines orchestrated using CloudBees Jenkins

• Understanding of AWS Compute (EC2), AWS Network (VPCs and Load Balancers), and AWS Serverless (API Gateway and Lambda) services

• Linux System Administration

• Proficiency in shell scripting using languages such as bash

• Programming capabilities in languages such as Python and understanding of CloudFormation / Infrastructure as Code

Job Role Specific Requirements:

• Demonstrated understanding of DevSecOps principals and their application within AWS to deploy infrastructure as code and application functionality for blue/green deployments

• Configuring and managing CloudBees Jenkins Ops center, controllers, and agents

• Integrating tools such as SonarQube, Artifactory, and Invicti into Jenkins deployment pipelines

• Server administration of Jenkins, SonarQube, Artifactory, and GitHub on Linux

• Troubleshooting issues with pipeline configuration with development teams and resolving issues with agents/controllers

• Troubleshooting of issues with application deployments to AWS

• Troubleshooting issues with development team pipelines, such as diagnosing issues between Jenkins agents and controllers

• Developing CloudFormation templates for infrastructure as code deployments

• Providing consultative input to development teams regarding best practices and solution architectures.

• Supporting Authority to Operate (ATO) of Enterprise Shared Services DevSecOps tools

• Implementing security best practices for access and administration of DevSecOps tools