Sr. Linux/DevOps Engineer - REMOTE - US Citizenship required

We are looking for a talented Sr. Linux/DevOps Engineer and developer to join our Hosting Services team on an IT operations project supporting DHS USCIS. The candidate will provide applications and tools development support for large enterprise. Candidate will be responsible for design, engineering, developing, testing, deploying applications and tools in virtualized environments that host web servers, database servers, domain controllers etc., on premise and in the cloud.

This position works under the general guidance of the Hosting Services Task Lead in an Agile, DevSecOps fast-paced, rapidly changing, collaborative environment, and requires strong troubleshooting and analytical skills, strong critical thinking, complex problem solving, appropriate judgment, and decision-making skills.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Configure and install UNIX systems supporting various Linux and UNIX operating systems in a virtualized environment.
• Set up configurations for applications and services hosted on UNIX & Linux environment
• Configure availability services and develop scripts and packages
• Support patching and build standard images

• Lead and guide the work of junior technical staff. Serve as liaison between PM and technical staff in all aspects of projects. Plan project stages and assess business implications for each stage.
• Fully engaged in the implementation of a DevOps system framework.
• Responsible for  operational availability of all the systems hosted on the infrastructure
• Support  planning  and building windows infrastructure supporting COOP & DR plans
• Support information assurance process in a technical role by complying with technical controls, technical checklists etc.,
• 10 years of analysis related to design, development, and integration of hardware and software to support large scale Unix environments with virtualization including RedHat, CentOS, and SPARC Solaris
• 10 years’ experience testing large scale UNIX and virtual environments.
• Experience performing a variety of engineering and operational related assignments associated with SAN, NAS and Storage operations, backup operations, and virtualization software (VMware’s vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V on a set of enterprise-level IT systems.
• 10 years’ experience writing scripts with a scripting language, with knowledge of ANSIBLE
• Familiarity with DevOps and ITIL processes
• Experienced in AWS, AZURE, Google Cloud Services, and other Cloud environments
• Design, develop, and deploy out-of-the-box solutions and hosted in a on premises or virtualized environment
• Develop, build, CI/CD pipeline, build out Jenkins’s master plugin to GitHub, and install security certificates.
• Support and develop deployment packages in PowerShell
• Work with program and technical staff in all aspects of daily work.
• Fully engaged in the implementation of a DevOps practices for supporting IT
• Support information assurance process in a technical role by complying with technical controls, technical checklists etc.

• Required Qualifications, Experience, and Skills

• 5-8 years of analysis related to design, development, and integration of hardware and software to support large scale Windows and Unix environments with virtualization, on-premises, and Cloud environments.
• 5-8 years of experience in implementation of DevOps solutions and tools (Cloudbees, Chef, Ansible Tower, Jenkins, Git, Sonatype, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, RedHat OpenShift Container Platform, Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Apigee, Foreman, SCCM, Twistlock, Python, Terraform / Cloud Formation Templates, JSON/YAML, AWS Lambda (serverless computing)
• 5-8 years’ experience performing a variety of application development, integrating, engineering and operational related assignments
• 5-8 years of experience in managing and developing out-of-the-box solutions for IT infrastructure tools (e.g., integrating operation dashboards of ServiceNow, SolarWinds). Knowledge of APIs and their integration using Java Script & other Scripting, Python, REST APIs, Tableau, Elastic stack)
• Experience in VMware, ServiceNow, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Git., AWS, Azure cloud environments, and DevSecOps automation associated in Windows Physical and virtualization software environments such as VMware’s vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V on a set of enterprise-level IT systems.
• Experience and knowledge of ANSIBLE, and Middleware (Oracle Application Server, IIS, Apache)
• Some experience and familiarity with Configuration and Change management practices in Agile and standard infrastructure and software development environments
• Some experience in AWS, AZURE, Google Cloud Services, and other Cloud environments
• Familiarity with Agile, DevOps practices and ITIL processes

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: BA/BS or equivalent, 10+ years of experience

The likely salary range for this position is $112,000 - $168,000, this is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary; rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

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