The DevOps Automation Engineer is an integral part of the DevOps/ IS team, leading and facilitating automation efforts of our on premise and cloud operations infrastructure. This role is part of small, dedicated, hands-on team of IT professionals working to ensure a positive experience for our clients while making strong technical business decisions with members of related teams.
*Job Duties and Responsibilities:
DevOps Automation Engineer (80%)
- Maintain and improve configuration management platform keeping up with the current technologies in the space.
- Implement processes and work with systems to deploy applications to development and production environments.
- Maintain Git version control repositories and related systems supporting initiatives around βinfrastructure as codeβ.
- Be a technical resource for merge requests, assisting others in writing scripts, and answer questions about use of the infrastructure.
- Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve problems with the build, deployment, and continuous integration process.
- Develop tools and implement systems to automate server and other infrastructure provisioning.
- Leverage scripting languages to build automated solutions and integrations on an ad-hoc basis. Languages often include PowerShell, BASH, Perl, Ruby, Terraform and Python across both Windows and Linux systems.
- Work with XML and JSON based APIs to orchestrate integration between infrastructure components.
Researching and Planning (10%)
- Work with System Engineers, Developers, Architects, and DevOps engineers to design and implement automated solutions with CD Pipelines for infrastructure and software build, deployment, and configuration.
- Work with other technical teams to create system and workflow information visible through monitoring systems and web-based dashboards.
Documentation (10%)
- Document build, continuous integration, and deployment processes.
*Qualifications (Education, Experience, Certifications & KSA):
- High School Diploma required
- Bachelorβs degree, or equivalent combination of education and experience, preferred
- 5 β 7 years related experience
- Experience working with tight deadlines and managing multiple projects simultaneously
- Ability to learn new systems and technology rapidly
- Self-motivated with outstanding organization and attention to detail
- Ability to work assignments with minimal supervision
- A background in software development
- Passion for automating Infrastructure, software deployment, and configuration
- An interest in Continuous Delivery and building fully automated deployment pipelines
- Experience setting up and maintaining build processes, deploying code bases to multiple environments and managing releases and configurations
- Experience with any of the following technologies:
- Operating Systems: Windows Server 2012 & 2016 & 2019, Linux
- Web Servers: IIS, Apache/Tomcat
- Database: Microsoft SQL Server, Mongo, RDS
- Configuration Management: Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Powershell
- Deployment: Octopus Deploy
- Version Control: GitLab, Git, TFS
- CI Tools: TeamCity, Jenkins
- VMWare vRealize, Puppet Razor
- Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
- Monitoring and Logging: Nagios, Splunk, AppDynamics, QRadar
- Cloud: Azure, AWS
- Virtualization: VMware
- Terraform
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions associated with a job.
We offer our employees a robust compensation package! Our comprehensive benefits include: medical, dental and vision insurance coverage; 100% company-paid life and disability coverage, 401k options with company match, three weeks PTO by the end of the first year and much more. Allied proudly promotes from within as part of a strong commitment to providing career growth opportunities for employees of all levels. Our diverse business portfolio allows employees broad career options with the advantage of staying with the same organization.
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