DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

18 Month W2 Contract

$65-70/hour

Hybrid 3 day onsite- Jersey City

Job Description:

The DevOps position with knowledge of the Atlassian Tool Suite including Jenkins/Bitbucket is responsible for ensuring that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements. Ability to automate. This role ensures solutions are well designed with maintainability/ease of integration and testing built-in from the outset. The developer will possess strong proficiency in development and testing practices common to the industry and have extensive experience of using design and architectural patterns.

Key Responsibilities:

· Participate and contribute to story refinement/defining requirements

· Participate and guide team in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle

· Perform spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas.

· Code solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements

· Utilize multiple architectural components (across data, application, business) in design and development of client requirements

· Assist team with resolving technical complexities involved in realizing story work

· Design/develop/modify architecture components, application interfaces, and solution enablers while ensuring principal architecture integrity is maintained

· Design/develop/maintain automated test suites (integration, regression, performance)

· Set up and develop a continuous integration/continuous delivery pipeline

· Automate manual release activities

· Mentor other Software Engineers and coach team on CI-CD practices and automating tool stack

Required Skills:

· Proficiency with Atlassian Tool Suite - Jira/Bitbucket/Confluence

· Source code management Git/Bitbucket, and others.

· Build automation and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment using tools like Jenkins, Ansible Tower and others

· Highly committed with an ability to work in fast paced environment against tight deadlines

· Ability to work in international, virtual teams and in matrix structures while being a good team player

Desired Skills:

· Knowledge of build tools and processes like Nuget, MS Build

· Exposure towards BitBucket, Jenkins, Sonar, Artifactory, Ansible

· Familiarity with RESTful APIs

· Testing methods and tools

· Understanding of microservices architecture

· Knowledge of Unix/Linux Shell Scripting

Soft skills:

· Strong passion for delivering technical solutions to business problems

· Very good understanding of object-oriented design principles and programming and be able to put this knowledge into practice

· Understand Agile software delivery methodology

· Ability to work in a dynamic environment

· Team player who understands the importance of teamwork and collaboration

· Passion for delivering new approaches and challenging the "status-quo"

· Technically curious and striving for continuous improvement