CCS Global Tech is a rapidly growing Information Technology company with a diverse portfolio of technology products and services and a large network of industry partnerships. With over 22 years of being a successful business with a global talent pool and presence, CCS is a certified Microsoft Gold Partner and specializes in delivering expert Microsoft based solutions for technical and business needs. We have been recognized by Inc. 500 Magazine as one of the fastest growing small companies in the Unites States.

we are a Tier 1 vendor for the City and County of San Francisco for Cloud Services, Staffing Services and Training Services. For this multi-year opportunity with a diverse set of needs to address, we are currently focusing on establishing partnerships with individuals as well as companies who can help us enhance our overall service portfolio, cut lead times, and ultimately help us deliver successfully. We currently hold sizable Government accounts in the San Francisco bay area including City and County of San Francisco, San Mateo County, and Santa Clara County.

We take great pride in our global reach and local influence. Your experience alongside our highly skilled and talented internal team who guide you along the way, offers key insights into what helps you stand out in a competitive job market.

If you are a partner company, please submit resumes with contact information of your own W2 Consultants only. Submitted consultants are expected to have excellent communication skills.

Principal DevOps Engineer
Columbia, MD
TS/SCI FSP
Candidates with experience from 7 to 10 Years exp - 180 to 200 K Foe roles requiring above 12 years exp - 220 K

Job description
We are seeking a motivated, career, and customer-oriented Principal DevOps Engineer to join our team in Columbia, Maryland.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

Support the development life cycle of platform architectural design, deployment and debugging
Building a release pipeline to enable fast, but safe delivery of critical business software to Production\
Develop & Maintain sound version control best practices-based CM systems (GIT), including branching and merging strategies
Serve as a technical lead for an Agile team and actively participate in all Agile ceremonies. Participate in all team ceremonies including planning, grooming, product demonstration and team retrospectives.
Ability to automate release deployments across development, test, staging, Quality Assurance and production stacks using a combination of scripting languages and other automation toolkits
Set-up up new sites and applications via configuration management such as Puppet and Ansible
Maintain / upgrade/ patch tracking and documentation software (Confluence / Jira)
Create, Assist, and Implement design and maintenance web service infrastructure and deployments
Analyze service stack and make recommendations for further improvements
Identify processes and capabilities that can be streamlined and automated
Maintain confidentiality with regard to information being processed, stored, or accessed
Leverage programming Languages such as Python, Ruby, Perl, and Java
Proficient with DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering methodologies.
Proficient automating network infrastructure configuration using Software Defined Networking
Set up and configure a continuous integration environment by leveraging Configuration Management, containerization, serverless technologies, and Kubernetes.
Architect and develop best practices for software build tools (Gradle, Maven, ANT, Shell) and continuous integration tools (Jenkins, Bamboo), and infrastructure automation (Amazon Web Services, VMWare, Puppet, Chef, ansible, etc.)

REQUIRED SKILLS

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or additional 4 years of experience)
10+ years of DevOps, Systems Engineering, or related experience
Strong expertise with:
- Git and version control best practices
- Linux administration
- Docker and Kubernetes
- Jenkins and/or Bamboo
- AWS cloud environments
- Infrastructure Automation (Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment strategies

DESIRED SKILLS
Experience with Python, Go, Java, Ruby, C++, or similar programming languages
Experience with Software Defined Networking (SDN)
Experience supporting Platform as a Service (PaaS) environments
Elasticsearch (Kibana a plus)
Redis, ActiveMQ, Memcache, or similar technologies

SECURITY REQUIREMENT

Current/Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

Principal DevOps Engineer

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