Web Services DevOps Engineer

ITCON Services is seeking a detail-oriented Web Services DevOps Engineer.

General Responsibilities

• The contractor personnel will be required to work 40 hours per week. The normal work hours are 9 am to 5:30 pm, Monday through Friday, with a half hour for lunch.
• Work effectively and collaboratively with Web Services colleagues on assigned projects and activities.
• Maintain professional relationships with customers, management, colleagues and deliver high-quality customer service.
• Enable automation of triggers and alerts when deploying applications through environments
• Configure automated testing and deployment processes
• Design and document the DevOps process
• Automate Developer's everyday operations with scripts or templates
• Recommend to management development approaches and strategies for applications and services provided to House customers.
• Work closely with management, project managers and members of the Development Team to develop detailed specification documents

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop scripts to do Continuous Integration and Development using Gitlab CI/CD or other similar tools
• Configure and Setup systems built in Drupal and PHP based framework across environments
• Collaborate with development, QA, release engineering, site support, and infrastructure teams to maintain high-quality deployment artifacts as it moves through deployment pipeline
• Document all DevOps and Continuous Integration processes on SharePoint
• Develop and fix monitoring systems to ensure availability of production systems
• Develop and implement centralized logging and monitoring tool
• Install application patches on applications built on Drupal
• Lead production deployment efforts with Development Team by creating change requests, deployment and rollback strategy and testing to ensure successful deployments to production environments
• Work with Linux team and Drupal vendors to coordinate patch deployments and remove any impediments for development team and requests made by Development team.
• Work with the Solution Architecture team, VM Tanzu team and Development team to ensure patching and updates are applied to the Container images.
• Debug application performance issues and provide recommendation on optimizing the performance.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent technical degree.
• 3-5 years of experience managing diverse DevOps workloads, across infrastructure, administration, deployment, development support and monitoring.
• 3 years of experience with automation and configuration management using Ansible
• 1-3 years of Linux administration experience.
• 3+ years of experience working with containerization, orchestration, and service discovery experience on Linux hosts, using docker, ECS or EKS.
• 1-3 years of experience with Gitlab or similar version control systems, including branching, tagging, merging, and release management.
• At least three (3) years of experience building CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or Gitlab Pipelines
• Experience with Docker, deploying containers, automated build deployments.

SPECIFIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Understanding of the Agile/Scrum software development lifecycle
• Hands on experience in building and maintaining websites using Drupal CMS and supporting tools like Memcached, Varnish, Load Balancers, SOLR, CDNs
• Demonstrated experience in deploying and configuring applications on Kubernetes and Linux environments
• Experience with automation tools like Ansible or equivalent
• Strong understanding and familiarity with the fundamentals of Linux systems administration
• Experience with application containerization (Docker) and infrastructure as code solutions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Equally comfortable working on a project team as well as independently
• Excellent organization, planning, prioritizing skills and attention to detail
• Experience in setting up and deploying applications on PaaS or IaaS cloud offerings
• Experience in administration of source code management tools like Git.