Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Vienna, VA/Hybrid model (2 days onsite)

Duration: Long Term

Must-Have:

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Experience with the banking/financial services industry

Key skill sets include:

Demonstrated hands-on experience with creating/maintaining pipelines (preferably using Azure DevOps) for multiple environments

Experience with Kubernetes and the use of Helm Charts (a Kubernetes deployment tool for automating the creation, packaging, configuration, and deployment of services to Kubernetes clusters)

Ability and experience reading code (particularly front-end code technologies such as Node.JS, Angular, other JavaScript languages) in order to help Development team engineers troubleshoot and resolve issues associated with their code, code integration, and their code repositories/pipelines

We believe that in addition to pure DevOps Engineers, front-end software engineers that have worked in an Azure environment and used Azure DevOps for CI/CD activities, could effectively perform in our DevOps Eng position. So if there are front-end software engineers that are looking for a change and interested in becoming an Azure DevOps Engineer, we would consider their resumes as well.

Responsibilities:

Manage, build, configure, administer, operate and maintain all components that comprise the Azure DevOps environment

Work with Experience Teams to integrate their products into the DevOps environment

Design, build, and implement pipelines and configurations

Develop and maintain scripts to automate tool/service deployment to the Azure cloud environment through Azure DevOps Pipeline and Release.

Enforce quality controls and gates to the build, test, and deploy process while establishing Definition of Ready and Definition of Done to ensure quality of delivery

Ensure monitoring and alerting is implemented for products/services in accordance with current guidelines

Participate in discussions/efforts with Information Security to augment the CI/CD framework with DevSecOps practices and standardized security tools and controls

Participate in discussions with engineering teams on current processes and capabilities and how they can be improved

Perform other duties as assigned in support of Digital Engineering

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field, or the equivalent combination of education, training, and experience

Experience using the following front-end technologies: Node.JS, Angular, other JavaScript technologies

Experience supporting front-end developers and providing CI/CD support for front-end technologies.

Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure or similar Cloud native offerings

Hands on automation skills and significant experience in creating CI/CD pipelines leveraging cloud-native architectures on Microsoft Azure Cloud and Infrastructure as Code for enterprise applications

Experience with Agile Delivery, SAFe, and DevOps frameworks

Experience with Microservices deployment and release management

Experience with Azure DevOps tools for plan, build, test, release and monitor

Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, PowerShell scripting, GIT, Linux, Shell, Azure Resource Management (ARM) templates

Hands on experience with implementing standards and best practices for the CI/CD framework

Knowledge of security scanning and monitoring tools like Checkmarx, Azure Monitor, Azure Log Analytics and Diagnostic

Extensive experience with scripting and debugging on Linux and Windows environments

Understanding of Test Automation tools and scripts to facilitate Test Driven Development

Understanding of integrated package management with support for Maven, npm, NuGet, or ANT

Experience with automated Change Management using modernized solutions like ServiceNow

Expert analytical/quantitative, problem-solving, and deductive reasoning skills, with demonstrated experience performing advanced troubleshooting and root cause analysis of complex technical issues

Excellent organizational, planning and time management skills and ability to work independently and in a team environment to manage concurrent priorities and meet deadlines

Advanced verbal and written communication skills and ability to present findings, conclusions, alternatives and information clearly and concisely

Experience working with all levels of staff, management, stakeholders, vendors with demonstrated ability to build effective relationships through rapport, trust, diplomacy and tact

Desired - Prior experience working with Microsoft Dynamics, Tanzu Application Service (TAS)/Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), Tanzu Kubernetes and Backbase platforms

Desired - Good understanding of core java and spring framework (Spring MVC, Spring Batch, Spring Contract)

Desired - Good understanding of Test Driven Development

Desired - Microsoft® Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Azure DevOps Engineer Expert or Azure Developer Associate

Desired – Experience with the banking/financial services industry