Senior Devops Engineer

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer (Candidate need to come for F2F interview, so look for local)

Location: Reston, VA

End Client: Comcast

As a DevOps Engineer, you will specialize in developing tools for a continuous deployment of a cloud

based networking service platform. You will also help operate and monitor the service.

Responsibilities:

• Development and design of systems, with a focus on automation and maintainability at a

large scale

• Software and hardware testing and deployment to staging and production environments

• Platform integration: Programmatic infrastructure management

• Develop software infrastructure and build tools useful in development lifecycle

• Comfortable with collaboration, open communication and reaching across dev, qa,

monitoring and other cross functional teams

• Maintain and monitor production systems for capacity issues, performance and conduct

proactive health-checks

• Incident trouble shooting, with quick remediation for issues

Qualifications:

• 10 years as DevOps Engineer or platform developer in a

mid to large Linux environment

SKills - Python / Scripting /

· Linux /

· Git Flow / GitHub Actions /

· Strong communication /

· strong analysis & problem solving /

· strong attention to detail.

•Experience like linux/networking/cloud/scripting/tools like ansible/salt/jenkins/vault/kakfka/zookeper and similar tools

• Strong IT/Ops background with focus on Process and MOPs

• Strong Linux fundamentals, with experience in Centos, RPM

• Solid understanding of containers, familiar with Kubernetes or other orchestration systems

• Familiarity with deployment and management systems such as Ansible, Puppet, Salt, Chef,

Packer, Terraform, etc.

• Strong grasp and practical experience with automation and virtualization of at least one

cloud platform (e.g. VMWare, OpenStack, AWS)

• Expertise in building/maintaining/sustaining monitoring systems like: nagios, op5, etc.

• Strong with at least one scripting and/or high level language: Python, Node.js, Java, Shell,

Perl, Golang

• Production experience working with load balancers and web stack based application

environments

• Solid grasp of operating and managing NoSQL DB such as Cassandra, Hadoop

• Familiarity with REST/SOAP/JSON APIs

• Systems and application monitoring and performance tuning knowledge a plus

• Familiarity with messaging systems like ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, and Kafka is a plus

• Experience with distributed file system (GlusterFS/Ceph) a plus

• Experience in AWS VPC, Networking and Security

• Self-motivated, with excellent oral and written communication skills

• Experience in building, maintaining, supporting Cloud based applications with 24x7

monitoring of logs and alerts.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field. Master’s preferred.