Sr. Build and Release DevOps Engineer

Position: Sr. Build and Release DevOps Engineer

Location: San Jose, CA

Duration: 12+ Months Contract

Total Hours/week: 40.00

Client: Medical Device Company

Employment Type: Contract on W2 (Need US Citizens Or GC Holders Only)

No H1B’s

Contract-to-hire position.

We offer only a hybrid work model, 3 days in the office, and 2 days remote.

Description

Client Biosciences is seeking a Senior Build and Release DevOps Engineer with team leadership and solid DevOps architecture experience to join our exciting and growing team. At Client Biosciences you will have the opportunity to create software applications that are used to help all people live healthy lives. Our software portfolio powers industry-leading, groundbreaking medical instruments. The Senior DevOps Engineer plays a key role in understanding our customer challenges and defining innovative solutions to solve them. Do you want to join a DevOps team that is transforming the way software engineering is done? Do you have experience in delivering high-quality code and deploying it seamlessly? Do you want to learn and apply the latest technology in platform engineering? If you answered yes to these questions, then you are the associate we are looking for. You are not just a hard worker; you are a smart worker. You are always looking for ways to improve your skills and processes. You can inspire and influence others with your empathy, passion, and expertise.

As Senior Build and Release DevOps Engineer, you will:

• Work very closely and integrated with the Development community to adopt culture change.

• Together with a team of engineers, enable streamlined software development, by managing and owning the entire automated build pipeline, DevOps toolchain, Installers, and associated test environments from source control to software delivery.

• Work with peer technical leaders and their teams to enable engineers to seamlessly create CI/CD pipelines for their software components.

• Focus on continuously improving the DevOps tooling, software installers, and software delivery processes.

• Own and maintain highly reliable environments and toolchains with clear communication and timeliness of any disruptions to internal stakeholders.

• Leverage industry-standard techniques and processes to help enable and provide better feedback to the development community.

• Monitor and continually improve the capacity of our production environments infrastructure.

• Investigate and fix performance and scalability bottlenecks. Essential Requirements

• Strong communication skills (verbal and written).

• Undergraduate degree in computer science, IT, software engineering, or similar

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Software Engineering roles as DevOps/Build and Release engineer.

• Expert in maintaining and managing software build infrastructure. (Azure DevOps(preferable), Jenkins, TravisCI, TeamForge, etc.)

• Expert with container technology and subsequent technologies, Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Amazon ECS, Azure Service Fabric, Harbor, Helm, Packer, and Terraform.

• Expert experience creating, maintaining, and supporting automated build pipelines.

• Expert experience in version control and source control management (Subversion, TFVC, Git)

• Expert in deploying, managing, and maintaining at least 2 of the following SCM toolchain such as Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube, Nexus, TFS, Azure DevOps

• Strong understanding of programming skillsets, structure, and Versioning.

• Experience in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, and PowerShell.

• Experience with system management technologies such as Puppet, Ansible, Salt, or Chef.

• Experience and knowledge of Microsoft and/or Linux system administration and networking.

• Experience in managing a VMware-based virtualization environment or similar.

• Knowledge of test-driven development, software configuration management, and automated testing. Highly Desirable Requirements

• Experience operating in a highly regulated industry.

• Experience in managing an automated build pipeline for a mixed set of software assets.

• Experience in an object-oriented programming language (Java, C++, C#, etc..).

• Experience in creating VM templates and deploying them at scale and tracking revisions.