DevOps Engineer 12 Month Contract

***2 days (Wed, Thur) Onsite each week a must***

***We are unable to sponsor for this 12 month straight contract role***

Prestigious Enterprise Company is currently seeking a DevOps Engineer. Candidate will build and support customer-facing applications with challenging business use cases, existing systems and operational problems.

Experience working on various middleware application servers and containers from monolithic to modern versions.

Apply middleware infrastructure automation code with utmost attention to scalability, security, and performance and with an end-to-end mindset from conception to delivery and production support, owning capacity specifications, quality, release deployments and monitoring of production health.

The candidate must also have some Shell/Perl/Python scripting language experience and be able to use this to implement changes in pipelines.

Maintains technical documentation on any implementations, README files up-to-date, and status pages of the projects along with Release team handover.

Collaborates closely with Engineering leadership, Product Managers, Designers, Test Automation and other teams to define, prioritize, sequence and scope middleware around business and functional areas.

Accurately scopes effort, identifies risks, and clearly communicates trade-offs with team members and other stakeholders.

Instruments infrastructure and application performance monitoring, capacity management, alerting, tools instrumentation and metrics (KPI) management.

Perform impact assessment of product (hardware, software) upgrades, patching, migration, and hot fixes.

Assists in planning, coordinating, and executing projects across various environments (Regression, Performance, Production and Post-production).

Supports and collaborates with other Engineers through evaluation, design analysis, and development phases.

Familiarity on common issues that causes builds/deployments to fail such as out of memory, disk full, missing libraries, or security certificates etc.

Proven track record of handling & troubleshooting various critical Production and nonproduction applications end to end & infrastructure technical issues, providing comprehensive root cause.

This list is not all-inclusive, and you are expected to perform other duties as requested or assigned such as On-call rotation and knowledge sharing sessions as part of the team.

Skill Sets:

OS (Unix/Linux) From the basic Application administration and maintenance support perspective.

Knowledge about DNS, DHCP, Load balancer, DMZ, Firewalls, listing, TCP/HTTP/SOAP/RESTAPI etc.

Configuration Management Tools with Ansible/Chef/Puppet and scripting with Shell, Perl, python, Jason, YAML, PowerShell etc.

CI/CD Pipeline GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Artifactory, Maven Canary & Blue/Green deployment with High availability of applications.

Middleware - Experience using any Enterprise servers like WebLogic, JBoss, Tomcat, Apache, proxy setup and security patching support.

Containerization - Leveraging Docker/Podman and Kubernetes for application deployment, ensuring portability across cloud platforms.

Cloud technologies - AWS/Azure on Load balancer, DNS, virtual machines (EC2), storage solutions (S3, EBS), and networking components (VPC, Route 53)

Security Okta, SiteMinder, LDAP, Active Directory, Entra ID, RBAC, SSL certificates lifecycle management, OpenSSL, Keytool, CSR and MFA knowledge.

Monitoring Tools - Preferably with any of these: Datadog, AppDynamics, Kibana, Splunk, Nagios, Dynatrace, Grafana etc.

Troubleshooting experience on Production & Non-production issues with infrastructure knowledge and in-depth root cause analysis.

Knowledge and exposure to Agile Kanban/Scrum process and methodologies.

Required Skills:         

YOU HAVE:

2+ w/Bachelors degree

Experience designing and developing secure application and products.

BS in computer science or equivalent technical field or equivalent work experience.

Experience with developing, configuring and deploying applications on Microsoft Azure or any other cloud platform.

Ability to identify key issues and details, and present understandable alternatives to both technical and non-technical individuals

Ability to create and maintain technical documentation to support the testing, installation, operations, deployment and maintenance of products

Proven ability to effectively present data to facilitate understanding of findings

Ability to solve complex problems using analytical and creative problem-solving skills for design, development and testing of systems

Strong knowledge of prevailing technology trends, design patterns and ability to apply those as needed