Herndon, VA
DevOps Engineer
October 14, 2019

Website Apptium
Type: Contract
Location: Herndon, VA
APPTIUM Technologies is looking to hire a DevOps Engineer who is experienced in software development, system administration and test engineering. Will develop high-quality, cost-effective, and timely solutions in the fast-paced global industry. Must be highly motivated and a self-starter who enjoys innovating and constantly improving products and processes.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop and maintain application tools that build, deploy, automate and streamline the product delivery process.
- Scale and administrate the different source control and continuous integration systems on multiple platforms.
- Provide a smooth and integrated pipeline for developers to track and fix issues, complete tasks and set up development environments etc.
- Automate as much of the pipeline as possible including running tests and building releases.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop and maintain application tools that build, deploy, automate and streamline the product delivery process.
- Scale and administrate the different source control and continuous integration systems on multiple platforms.
- Provide a smooth and integrated pipeline for developers to track and fix issues, complete tasks and set up development environments etc.
- Automate as much of the pipeline as possible including running tests and building releases.
REQUIRED SKILLS
- Good hands-on experience in AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Experience in administrating VM and containers with software like Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
- Knowledge in administrating Linux/Unix servers and clusters.
- Knowledge in administrating Webservers, J2EE app servers, RDS/RDBMS(Oracle, MySql), NoSql (Neo4j, MongoDb, Couchbase, etc) servers.
- Experience in managing Redis, Elastic search, ELK, Kafka and Zookeeper.
- Good hands-on experience in CI/CD platform and tools like Hudson, Jenkins, Bamboo etc.
- Experience in version control systems like Bitbucket, Gitlab, Github, etc
- Shell, Perl, Python or Ruby Scripting for administration, monitoring and automation.
- Experience in Puppet Automation and Ansible playbooks would be a plus
- Experience in other cloud infrastructure like GCP, Azure, Cloud Foundry, Openstack would be a plus.
- Experience in cloud formation scripts like Terraform would be a plus.
- Experience in Load balancer and http proxy servers like F5, AWS LB, NGINX, etc., would be plus.
COMPETENCIES
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively are key.
- Candidates should be self-motivated and ready to hit the ground running.
- Strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to present to large and small groups.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s degree
- Minimum of 5 years of experience, which includes at least 2 years in the DevOps area