DevOps Engineers

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Job description

Payrate: up to 81/hr., W-2 depending on experience. C2C is available.

Benefits: Health, Dental & Vision Insurance is available. Health savings account, Flexible spending accounts, Life insurance and Retirement plan are also available.

We are looking for two (2) experienced DevOps Engineers for a 12-month assignment onsite in Houston TX. These are not hybrid or remote roles. But Fridays are 1/2 days.

The right candidate should have deep technical know-how and hands-on experience implementing various practices, frameworks and tools to help build and support our CI/CD/CT pipelines to enable application deployments, automate infrastructure provisioning, and improve the scalability and reliability of our applications.

Responsibilities:

Work with development and support teams to design and implement deployment, provisioning, and integration workflows; ensure environments are stable, properly configured and secure, and identify areas for improvement.

Build and maintain tools and solutions associated with deployment and our DevOps platform.

Update our processes and design new processes as needed to optimize performance of our CI/CD/CT pipelines.

Partner with internal stakeholders to develop best practices to manage and reduce security risks by developing and integrating global security controls into our CI/CD/CT pipelines.

Prepare environments for development, testing, user acceptance testing, performance, scalability and reliability analysis, and ensure that environments are stable, production-like and available for development and QA teams.

Establish DevOps Engineer team best practices and document DevOps processes, procedures and workflows to maintain consistency.

Work with internal stakeholders across various organizations contributing to the development and management of the organization's incident management and disaster recovery processes.

Support monitoring tools for application and infrastructure stability, reliability and security with automated analysis, problem detection and alert generation.

Actively troubleshoot any issues that arise and work with development teams to expedite fixes.

Qualifications:

3-10 years demonstrated work experience, including substantial DevOps experience and Release Management practices for enterprise teams.

BS. Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent work experience.

Strong experience applying DevOps and CI/CD concepts and building CI/CD pipelines with source control such as:

Azure DevOps

GIT

TFS

Docker containerization

Kubernetes

ServiceMesh

API Gateway

Proxy Servers

Encryption , SSL/ TLS, OpenSSL, key and secret management (is highly desired)

Experience with application and system profiling/monitoring tools and techniques, scaling and optimization techniques.

Familiarity with Agile development practices, Scrum/Kanban or other Agile work decomposition and management methodologies

Experience planning, implementing and maintaining deployment processes for large enterprise multi-tier distributed applications, including experience with IIS, messaging systems and databases.

Strong general IT application and networking knowledge, including load balancing, networking, Microsoft Active Directory, messaging middleware and virtualization technologies such as VMWare vSphere.

Strong knowledge of SQL Server (or other RDBMS) configuration, administration, backups and recovery.

Experience working/communicating with global teams.

Communicates and collaborates effectively to management, peers and team members.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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