Cloud Engineer / DevOps-------Need GC and USC-----------Need Locals

Cloud Engineer / DevOps

Duration: 1 year+

Denver, CO

Need GC and USC

Need Locals

Top Three Skills:

1. Cloud Experience (AWS, VMware, Openstck)

2. Systems Administration-Linux

3. Automation Scripting-Puppet and Python (Bash can substitute for Python)

Responsibilities:

• Assisting in automation and orchestration of application deployments for multiple development and application support teams

• Develop reusable puppet code for installation and configuration of common application components

• Support and maintain the department’s Puppet Enterprise environment

• Provide training and on boarding of developers and application support teams into the cloud environment

• Mentor teams in the development and use of Puppet modules for application automation

• Implementation of configuration changes, as well as backing out an unsuccessful change.

• Document and maintain knowledge of supported applications and platforms

Required Qualifications:

• 1+ years of working experience with Puppet for configuration management and automation

• 3+ years of system administration experience with either RedHat Linux or Windows Server operating systems

• Proficiency with use of source code management and software development workflow using Git

• Have a thorough understanding of SDLC best practices including CI/CD

• Demonstrated leadership capability; able to help guide, motivate and collaborate across IT operations, development and architecture teams

• Scripting or programming proficiency (Ruby, bash, PowerShell, etc.)

• Experience working in an environment with automated deployments and automated testing

• Experience in advanced application configuration, troubleshooting and performance tuning

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience extending Puppet with Ruby (Custom types and providers, custom functions, etc)

• Familiarity with application architecture and deployments in cloud environments (Microservices, service discovery, A/B code deployments, etc)

• Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMWare, OpenStack, AWS

• Experience with Java containers (Weblogic, Tomcat, Jboss, etc)

• Experience with webservers (Apache, IIS, nginx, hapxory, etc)

• Experience with .NET application stack

• RedHat or Microsoft certification

• BS degree and/or the equivalent in training and experience preferred

• Experience with using and maintaining Atlassian suite of products (Stash, Jira, Hipchat, etc)

• Load balancing concepts, features and applicability to application/service deployments

• 5+ years of relevant work experience developing services, automation tools/scripts

• Knowledge of SQL and NOSQL databases

• Experience with software packaging (e.g. RPM, MSI, etc.) and software distribution

• Take ownership of assigned tasks and drive to completion; provide status and follow-up as needed

• Excellent personal and communication skills.

• Highly tuned problem solving and analytical skills

• Experience porting puppet code to future parser

If you are interested please share your resume to preethib@usmsystems(dot)com or can directly call me on 703 468 0398