What are the responsibilities and job description for the Devops Engineer position at Allwyn Corporation?
Job Title: Devops Eng
Location: Vienna , VA
The DevOps Engineer will join a 8 person Digital DevOps team and support the multiple Development/Experience Teams who are developing our next generation, Cloud-based banking system. While there will be some operations related tasks, the focus of this DevOps position is more on the “Dev” side of DevOps. By that we mean their primary focus will be on providing Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CI) support to ensure that Azure repos/pipelines are working properly and that Development Team CI/CD issues get resolved quickly so that maximum efficiency/velocity can be maintained. We are also in the process of the migrating our Cloud-based banking system from Tanzu/PCF platform to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and anticipate the resource participating in related activities and providing day-to-day support to the Development teams as we make that transition.
Basic Purpose
The Digital DevOps Engineer will join the Digital Engineering organization focused on delivering rapid, incremental capabilities to the Cloud that improve the member/user experience and drive value to Navy Federal. The Digital DevOps Engineer will become a member of the Digital DevOps & Release team that provides horizontal support to all Digital Engineering/Experience teams.
To support and participate in Digital’s Agile development and engineering activities throughout the lifecycle and drive DevOps automation and strategies that align with industry best practices.
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
*This role is Hybrid and candidate must be local to HQ with a 2 days a week in office requirement.
- To collaborate with Product owners, developers, cloud engineers, DevOps engineers and operations to plan, design, test and deliver pipelines using a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) model and ensure Digital’s applications are ready for seamless production transition and successful operations.
- Key skill sets include:
- demonstrated hands-on experience with creating/maintaining pipelines (preferable 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
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
· 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
· 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
· Good understanding of core java and spring framework (Spring MVC, Spring Batch, Spring Contract)
· Good understanding of Test Driven Development
· Microsoft® Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Azure DevOps Engineer Expert or Azure Developer Associate
· Experience with the banking/financial services industry
· Knowledge of processes and applications
Allwyn is a 20-year-old systems integrator in Northern Virginia.
We are a provider of information technology solutions to commercial and government customers. Committed to delivering excellence, we help our customers realize their vision through an in-depth understanding of their business needs. Leveraging its experience across a broad spectrum of industries, Allwyn can mobilize the right combination of people, process and technology to meet and exceed our customers’ expectations. Allwyn is managed by a team of industry experts with extensive backgrounds in Data Science/Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Application Development, Quality Assurance, Infrastructure Support, and Project/Program Management. We are located in Herndon VA.
To learn more about us, please visit us at www.allwyncorp.com.
We are a provider of information technology solutions to commercial and government customers. Committed to delivering excellence, we help our customers realize their vision through an in-depth understanding of their business needs. Leveraging its experience across a broad spectrum of industries, Allwyn can mobilize the right combination of people, process and technology to meet and exceed our customers’ expectations. Allwyn is managed by a team of industry experts with extensive backgrounds in Data Science/Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Application Development, Quality Assurance, Infrastructure Support, and Project/Program Management. We are located in Herndon VA.
To learn more about us, please visit us at www.allwyncorp.com.
