Sr. DevOpps Architect ChefPuppet

Title: Sr. DevOpps Architect - Chef/Puppet
Location: Seattle Area
Openings: 1
Type: Contract or Contract-to-Hire
Level: Senior

• Provide business data application and technology consulting for IT team members and business partners.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the IT teams for project level architecture and design work.
• Review and approve project level architecture and designs for IT projects and create these artifacts as needed on large complex initiatives.
• Lead team in providing business application and technology consulting.
• Deeply analyze business processes and technologies to discover and refine clients needs.
• Work collaboratively with clients with varying expertise and exposure to DevOps in order to solve complex problems.
• Develop solutions to varying challenges using:
  • Languages such as: Ruby Python (Javascript) RSpec.
  • Tools such as Puppet/Chef Vagrant Packer Beaker.
• Possess working knowledge of object oriented and scripted programing.

• Pull strings with Puppet and cook some recipes up with Chef. Be comfortable using and adapting to different configuration management tools as required by clients and to compare/contrast their merits..
• Mentor delivery team technical leads and developers.
• Possess strong verbal and written communication skills in order to adapt to the dynamic nature of discussions with other engineering and product teams.
• Act as a liaison with other architects (security infrastructure data etc.) and with delivery teams working primarily within an Agile (Scrum/Kanban) methodology.
• Translate requirements into functional service designs and create service models along with supporting documentation (activity and sequence diagrams).
• Seek out and identify opportunities to reuse enterprise technology services.
• Ensure service designs adhere to standards principles and governance processes.
• Provide design documentation in sufficient detail to estimate effort and validate final implementation.
• Perform peer reviews of designs and solution proposals to ensure conformance to current practice and quality of work being generated.
• Ability to write unit and acceptance tests for modules.
• Ability to implement scalable architecture.

• B.S. in Computer Science Engineering or Information Technology or equivalent experience.
• 5 years experience in systems architecture.
• 4 years Open-Source Software tools and development experience in one or more of the following: Ruby Python (Javascript) RSpec Puppet/Chef Vagrant Packer Beaker.
• 3 years experience developing applications using agile principles.
• 2 years experience with a formal configuration management tool such as Puppet Chef Ansible or SaltStack
• 2 years experience using Source Control tools such as Git or Subversion. Git knowledge is a must.
• 3 years experience integrating automation workflow tools (Jenkins/Hudson/uDeploy) with configuration management tools (Chef/Puppet/SaltStack/Ansible)
• 2 years experience using cloud based hosting solutions (AWS-EC2/S3 Azure Google Cloud)
• 1 years experience designing and implementing horizontally-scalable applications.
• Formalized Puppet training / certification.
• Experience with RSpec/Serverspec/Beaker for unit/acceptance tests (or similar for other tools)
• Experience installing configuring and managing scalable Configuration Management master servers
• Software development or DevOps automation background

Required Experience:

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