Senior DevOps engineer

Senior DevOps engineer

• The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) requires the assistance of a Senior DevOps engineer to help automate and improve the environment/infrastructure provisioning, build, deploy and operation of Portfolio Applications.
• The primary role is to work on the Automation effort of infrastructure and environment provisioning, containerization, build and deploy activities for portfolio applications. This position must demonstrate a solid understanding of AWS infrastructure, services, and software release life cycle.
• This position will be responsible for 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. This position will 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.
• The position will work with IT management to improve the software engineering processes and practices associated with continuous integration and Continuous deployment (CI/CD) of application changes. This position will interact with the architects, developers, deployment Team, and Database Administrators to ensure automation of various tasks.
• This position is required to be on call for evenings and weekends as required to meet business needs.
  

Skill Matrix

• Strong knowledge of infrastructure including on-prem, cloud, VPN, reverse proxy, private link, firewall, OWASP. Required 5 Years
• Hands-on experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Salt, Chef, Puppet using modular design such as Ansible Roles. Required 5 Years
• Experience in Git based devsecops including branching strategy, branch protection rules, source code hygiene by automation, and release strategy Required 5 Years
• Experience with Git commands, and can demonstrate stash, merge, interactive rebase, cherry pick. Required 5 Years
• Experience in CICD tools such as GHA, Jenkins, TeamCity, or Azure Devops. Must have development experience of these tools from grounds up. Required 3 Years
• Hands-on experience in IaC using tools like CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, Bicep. Required 3 Years
• Administration experience w/ AWS and Azure cloud including cross-account resource sharing, identity management, ID federation, RBAC, SSO w/ SAML. Required 1 Years
• Strong troubleshooting skills in a quick pace environment. Good team player. Required
• Knowledge and experience in J2EE-specific application hosting, application tracing/debugging, and application deployment. Highly desired 7 Years