Sr Devops Engineer

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I would like to present your profile to my client for the below referred role to one of our fortune 500 clients below is the detailed job description please go through it and let me know your interest along with your Updated Resume and the best time and contact number to reach you.


Job Title: Sr. / Lead DevOps Engineer


Location: Sterling, VA(Remote till Covid-19)


Duration: 6+ Months Contract then Hire


Our client has an excellent opportunity available for a DevOps Lead. We are looking for candidates with a strong background in software development and networking experience to support the automation of deployments. The DevOps engineer's primary responsibilities will be to lead a small team of DevOps engineers/developers to meet the product's various deployment requirements and needs. This includes spearheading the design and development of Ansible and Python scripts used for automation of deployments, coordination of tasks within the team, and working with PM and other team leads to ensure work is completed in a timely manner. This position offers an excellent opportunity to grow with a dynamic team of developers.



Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of DevOps engineers and developers to enhance and maintain existing Ansible deployment scripts, while adhering to application installation and configuration requirements
• Work with PM and team lead to understand priorities and ensure the team is on track and work is completed in a timely manner
• Proactively work with application developers to determine application installation and deployment requirements, and ensure they are satisfied in a variety of environments and deployment configurations.
• Maintain and/or enhance existing CI/CD pipelines to improve development team productivity
• Administer and maintain existing internal software development infrastructure
• Administer and manage existing infrastructures such as Gitlab and build server
• Be able to quickly ramp up on and assess technologies used in the application or to simplify deployment automation and monitoring
• Review deployment architectures and provide feedback on best practices and improvements on efficiency and cost
• Provide guidance and mentorship to new and/or junior developers

• A degree in Computer Science or other related degrees (additional 6 years of experience in lieu of degree)
• At least eight years of professional experience in software development, with two of those years working on DevOps work (automation of application deployment)
• Proficient with Ansible, Python, and AWS technologies (i.e. VPC, EC2, EIP, etc)
• Proficient with software installation and configuration on Linux, Windows Server OSes
• Proficient in Shell, Bash, and various scripting libraries
• Possess a strong development background, understands software design and development best practices, and source code maintenance practices such as versioning, branching, and tagging
• Strong understanding of networking concepts, such as subnetting, routing, public vs private networks, hands-on experience setting up various forms of networks a plus
• Experience with automation and deployment of network-centric products and solutions a plus
• Experience building enterprise deployments on AWS or Azure a plus
• Experience with automated creation of Cloud resources using tools such as CloudFormation, SDKs, CLI a plus