Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior Level DevOps Engineer

Apex Systems has an immediate opening for a Senior Level DevOps Engineer with Amazon Web Services experience. This is a contract role with the ability to convert to a full time employee if desired. As part of the Development Team, you will be helping with the automation and streamlining of the application delivery operations and processes.

Location: Rockville, MD (100% Remote)

Qualifications:

At least 3 years of hands-on experience in the areas/tools listed below:

• Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration
• Experience with automation / configuration management using either Puppet, Chef or an equivalent
• Strong experience in scripting such as Python, Groovy, Ruby, Perl
• Ability to use variety of open source technologies and cloud services (experience with AWS is required)
• Working knowledge of continuous integration platform such as Jenkins and various deployment tools
• Working knowledge of source code repository such as Git (BitBucket), Subversion

Additional Skills and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years’ experience in either software development or administration

At least 2 years of experience administering Jenkins for large-scale CI/CD workflow.

At least 2 years of experience working with automation or configuration management using Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform, or CloudFormation.

Knowledgeable of common scripting languages such as Bash, Shell, Python, Perl, etc.

At least 2 years of experience building software in a cloud service such as AWS.

Strong background in Linux/Unix administration.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

Experienced developing software using language such as Java, Python, Ruby, Go.

Familiar with container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Containerd.

Prior experience administering Gitlab is highly desirable.