DevOps Engineer

Job ID:
Job Title:

DevOps Engineer
Location:

McLean, VA 22102 (Hybrid)
Duration:

6 months CTH
Contract Type:

W2 only
Pay Rate Range:

$80-$88.60/Hour
Our Impact:
Partner with Product and Business team members to ensure high quality product is developed and released into production.
Work closely with Architecture, Stakeholders, Operations Partners, and Business Product teams to specify and refine solutions and practices.
Evolve a DevOps culture to provide high quality, continuous operations, and ongoing support ensuring critical service level metrics, customer requirements and financial objectives.
Driver for modernization of client's 5000+ customers to release small incremental changes to production at 5x pace.

Your Impact:

Build to sustainability/DevOps engineering functions that is responsible for platform availability, scale, and performance.
Build tools to lead through automation and proactive/predictive alerts by having a strong data analytical tool set to identify areas of improvement.
Build to improve the systems health such as self healing, resiliency, continuous feedback.
Lead to instrument APM in prod and non-prod with dashboards including but not limited to key performance indicators, alters with thresholds and tolerances, user patterns & usages etc.
Implement comprehensive service monitoring to ensure uptime and performance, including but not limited to synthetic transactions, real users, system, application performance, dashboards etc.
Define, measure, and meet key service level objectives including availability, performance, incidents, and chronic problems.
Ensure robust capacity planning models are defined for key platforms and regularly measure customer site performance and capacity and ensuring that there is no downtime due to capacity.
Own end-to-end availability and performance of critical platform services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence; eventually automate response to all non-exceptional service conditions.
Experienced in coding, scripting, and automating with languages including Groovy, Ansible, Selenium, Vgen and shell scripting experience, for automation of routine operations and tasks within the enterprise environment.
Proficient in CI/CD pipeline development with use of Jenkins and Spinnaker tools; to support microservice deployments into Amazon EKS and/or OpenShift Console environments.
Experienced with code quality, code coverage, security scan (SAST/DAST) scanning tools such as; Fortify, Checkmarx, SonarQube.
Experience with code and release management tools (e.g. Git, Bitbucket, CI/CD, Helm, Spinnaker, Jenkins, Jira)
Lead technical teams with a focus on productivity, cost optimization on infrastructure and efficiency.

Qualifications:

Bachelors or advanced degree or directly relevant professional experience
10+ years of experience in delivering solutions using Software Development Life Cycle
5+ years' experience working with complex SQL queries, AWS and Unix environments.
Proven experience with operational and organizational management, team leadership, and enterprise-wide technology strategy
Possess good interpersonal and collaboration skills with strong communication skills at levels ranging from senior leadership to product team members.
Knowledge and experience working with AWS, Python and Java
Strong writing skills. Detail driven with respect to documentation.
Desire to expand knowledge & skillset in cloud-based technologies & patterns