Senior Devops Cloud Engineer

Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer - SME - Computer Systems Engineer/Architect

Opportunity:

Southern Maryland IT Services, Inc is a small but growing company providing infrastructure Cloud deployment support to Federal clients. We have an opportunity to join a team providing support to our client in the early stages of their effort to migrate from a legacy on premise Infrastructure to a full Cloud infrastructure. The focus of this effort will be to not only build infrastructure and applications in the Cloud but to also automate these processes using tools such as CloudFormation, Ansible, and Jenkins. We build customer relationships in order to understand unique customer needs and provide technical expertise and a comprehensive understanding of customer environments. We are looking for an energetic DevOps Engineer who is looking to be part of an organizational switch from traditional build and deploy to DevOps automation and AWS platform.

About You:

· You are a hardworking, competitive type with a developer mindset that is driven to succeed with a natural sense of urgency.

· Self-starter with a reputation for being an effective team player and perhaps even a team leader (and just a cool person to work with)

· Proactively look to improve and add efficiency to current processes and exercise judgment in the decision-making process in order to provide consistent customer service.

· You’re highly skilled and proficient in problem solving and able to follow a systematic troubleshooting approach—very strong troubleshooting and root case analysis ability

Responsibilities:

· Engineer will make a key contribution supporting end-to-end Platform application delivery, including Infrastructure provisioning & automation and integration with Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) platforms, using existing and emerging technologies

· Help develop and manage proper orchestration techniques as it relates to the system and application automation as we migrate workloads to the cloud

· Specify, design, implement, and test features end to end for pertinent cloud and automation technologies.

· Implement security best practices for cloud infrastructure.

Requirements:

· 5-7 years related experience with minimum of 2 years working in a DevOps enterprise environment.

· Experience provisioning and managing applications in both virtual and cloud infrastructures (AWS and Openstack preferred) (AWS associate certificate preferred)

· Experience in shell scripting for process automation, preferably utilizing Ansible and Cloud Formation

· Experience of Jenkins for continuous integration

· Ability to utilize and work with a large variety of open source technologies and tools

· Data management skills with an emphasis in automation tools

· Container experience in Docker Swarm and/or Kubernetes

· Working knowledge of managing Redhat Linux in a virtual environment not required, but nice to have.

· Ability to solve complex problems spanning multiple technologies and disciplines

· Ability to take ownership of issue analysis and resolution efforts and commitment to resolve technical issues in a 24x7 SLA-bound operating environment

· Service oriented approach, with the ability to focus on and deliver assigned tasks in a timely manner with Methodical approach to change execution, implementation and documentation.

· Demonstrate leadership and foster collaborative team approach and interacts well with front line and management providing consultation and expert advice on systems related topics

Job Type: Full-time