Senior DevOps Long-Term Contract Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities: This Sr. DevOps Engineer position is responsible for enabling the adoption of DevOps best practices through the administration and support of modern development tools. This role is critical to the availability and resilience of the development tools that orchestrate the delivery of application components to multiple environments. The individual in this role will also drive adoption of DevOps culture across the Enterprise through team engagements and coaching.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or any equivalent combination of experience.
• Education/Persona and/or training in the computer systems engineering field.
• 1-3 years of Linux experience.
• A deep understanding of Linux systems and strong core Unix skills are required.
• Should have experience with Unix Shell scripting.
• Good working knowledge of building automation and continuous integration/delivery ecosystem: Git, Groovy, Kotlin, Gerrit, Maven/Gradle, Docker, Nexus, Artifactory, Selenium, Python.
• Experience in supporting and troubleshooting modern development tools.
• Test driven mindset with experience in automation with development tools.
• Comfortable facilitating training on enterprise tools and best practices.
• Candidate must have excellent verbal and written communication skills and be able to articulate concepts to both technical and non-technical individuals.
• Proven problem-solving skills required.
• Candidate must have attention to detail and be methodical in carrying out responsibilities.
• The successful candidate must be a self-motivator and be able to perform work with little guidance or instruction. Multiple tasks may be assigned which will require managing/prioritizing.
• Involvement in the DevOps community through open-source contributions is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Solid understanding of Cloud Native concepts such as 12 factor development.
• Experience with infrastructure configuration and automations processes and tools: Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Fabric.
• Experience with application telemetry.
• Experience working on an Agile team - Experience in supporting Java container-based applications is a plus.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran