DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

Start: Immediate

Duration: 6 months to start (High Possibility Of Extension)

Location: Remote

USCs Only

Overview

We are seeking a skilled and motivated DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in bridging the gap between development and operations, ensuring seamless integration and deployment of software applications. This position requires a strong understanding of both software development and IT operations, with a focus on improving collaboration and productivity through automation, monitoring, and continuous integration.

Must be able to obtain and maintain a suitability or determination of eligibility for Government clearance

Responsibilities

• Setup, install, configure and maintain build infrastructure
• Create and maintain build and deployment scripts
• Maintain source control branches
• Perform periodic builds and deployments to production environment
• Perform manual code merges and deploy partial releases and patches
• Work with other IT teams to review pre-release checklists and coordinate activities to be performed prior to, during and post releases by others
• Work with other IT teams to perform troubleshooting and resolution of build and deployment issues in sprint and during releases related to deployment targets, databases, certificates, permissions, firewall changes, IIS configurations and any other system and network dependencies
• Work with Development teams and participate in troubleshooting high priority application related issues after releases
• Configure and maintain application settings and credentials
• Perform administration of Azure DevOps Servers including regular maintenance, user management and security
• Design and implement policies for managing source code within ADO and Git, including branching, merging and tagging policies to support frequent releases, concurrent development, and partial fixes
• Create and maintain documentation of the build and release processes
• Develop metrics and reporting for build and release tasks
• Investigate, evaluate, propose and implement new tools or processes to improve the reliability, stability and efficiency of the build and deployment pipelines

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor s Degree or equivalent experience
• At least 2 years of experience working within a DevOps Engineering role
• Intermediate knowledge of cloud infrastructure services, specifically with Azure
• 2+ years of experience with Kubernetes containerization technologies
• 2+ years of experience with CI/CD tools and platforms such as Azure DevOps, Argo, and Flux.
• Experience supporting 24x7, high availability application environments that include web, application and database servers and load balancing systems.
• Basic to intermediate knowledge of Microsoft SQL server and relational databases
• Demonstrated experience working in a fast paced, large scale Agile/Scrum development environment
• Equivalent combination of education, experience and/or applicable military experience will be considered

Preferred

• Experience with CI using tools such as Azure DevOps, YAML, Task Agent, or Pools
• Experience with hosting .NET applications, Windows Forms, Web Services, RESTful APIs, Single Page Application, Micro Services.
• Experience with Object Oriented Programming concepts