IT Configuration Management Specialist

Job Description

Position Title: IT Configuration Management Specialist

Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting IT Configuration Management Specialist contract opportunity.

Job Responsibilities:

• Plan the deployment and configuration of enterprise applications supporting software development, including GitHub Enterprise, Jenkins, and containers
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins to automate build, test, and deployment processes
• Perform regular maintenance tasks including application patching, app/plugin updates, and configuration changes
• Identify opportunities and drive the implementation of automation to improve service health, manageability, reliability, and monitoring
• Author functional and technical documentation
• Own, triage, investigate, and resolve service issues with our enterprise applications
• Communicate on a technical level with software engineers, project management, and operations teams to improve and optimize products, improve infrastructure, and evolve services
• Remain current on new DevOps technologies, methods, and procedures
• Contribute to DevOps application support as a tier 3 escalation resource
• Demonstrate end-to-end expertise and technical ownership in several of the following areas:
• Cloud technologies - Azure PaaS
• Data center technologies – Windows Server, VMware
• Infrastructure Automation for Windows Server/Linux
• Virtualization
• Storage
• Networking
• Disaster Recovery
• Containers
• Follow internal best practices for approval of application access and changes.
  
  
  

Job Qualifications:

• Three (3) years of experience with DevOps enterprise technologies, GitHub, Jenkins preferred
• Deep understanding of core DevOps practiceStrong troubleshooting and problem-solving skill
• Excellent verbal and written communications skill
• Ability to build productive working relationships with others
• Experience with these technologies:
• Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
• AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Git
• Jenkins
• Linux RHEL 7-8.x
• PowerShell
• Python
• Windows 2016-2022.
  
  
  

Preferred Job Qualifications:

• College Degree
• Experience with infrastructure software including DockerExperience with applications running in a primarily Windows Server environment
• Experience with SQL technologies and backend application databases
• Experience in configuration management technologies such as Chef, Puppet or Ansible.
• Experience with AWS or another cloud PaaS provider.
• Solid understanding of configuration, deployment, management, and maintenance of cloud-hosted systems; including auto-scaling, monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting and disaster recovery.
• Proficiency with source control, continuous integration, and testing pipelines.
• Experience with these technologies:
• Ansible
• Azure
• Docker
• GitHub
• Linux RHEL 7-8
• SQL, MySQL, or PostgreSQL
  
  
  

Job Details:

• Job Type: Contract
• Location: 100% Remote Acceptable.
• Pay Rate Range: $40-65/hr.
• Export control regulations require candidates to be a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Legal Permanent Resident, or of a protected person status.
  
  
  

Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO), and an administered 401k plan.

About Protingent: Protingent is a niche provider of top Engineering and IT talent to Software, Electronics, Medical Device, Telecom, and Aerospace companies nationwide. Protingent exists to make a positive impact and contribution to the lives of others as well as our community by providing relevant, rewarding, and exciting work opportunities for our candidates.