DevOps Engineer - Terraform 

Duration: 6 Months Contract to Hire

 

Location During COVID: Virtual / Remote

Location After COIVD: Johns Creek, GA USA - Hybrid / 2 days per week in office

 

This is a 6 month contract to hire position that is virtual/remote (during covid) but in the future (after covid) will transition to hybrid with 2 days per week onsite in the office. In anticipation of the position transitioning from fully remote to hybrid onsite, candidates must be local to the greater Atlanta metro region within a reasonable commuting distance to Johns Creek, GA. No company paid relocation assistance is available.

 

Critical Highlights:

• Experience working with continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines.

• Building Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD pipelines.

• Experienced with delivering Infrastructure as Code (IaS) & Infrastructure automation.

• Experience working with configuration management technologies like Terraform, Chef or Ansible.

• Terraform Coding experience is a must.

• Terraform version migration experience is a plus.

• Experience with containerization (Docker) and container management.

 

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for architecting, designing, implementing and maintaining production systems, including: release management, automation, system maintenance, and configuration and use of source code management systems and code build systems, utilizing agile methodologies.

• Automate and streamline our operations and processes while working closely with the Software Development groups and senior IT management.

• Responsible for building and evolving the continuous delivery technology platforms with the goal of moving changes to production faster and safer.

• The position is highly technical and balanced between engineering operations roles such as systems configuration management and software development.

• Architect /Design and implement the next generation continuous delivery platform.

• Create more stable operating environments by continuously improving the infrastructure to be easily deployable and scalable.

• Maintain advanced knowledge of agile methodology, development processes, and programming languages.

• Collaborate with development, QA, release engineering, operations, site support, and infrastructure teams to maintain high-quality deployment artifacts as it moves through entire deployment pipeline.

• Drive and maintain operational activities related to DevOps systems.

• Champion Test-Driven Development, Acceptance-Test-Driven Development, and Agile best-practices, processes, and tools in support of DevOps processes.

• Proactively seek opportunities to implement improvements in the development process and deployment pipeline.

 

Drive and champion Continuous Delivery and automation wherever feasible.

• Champion Test-Driven Development, Acceptance-Test-Driven Development, and Agile best practices, processes, and tools in support of DevOps processes.

• Understand where automation can be applied to various aspects of the development process and lead projects to implement these solutions to gain organizational savings.

• Responsible for understanding third party application automation products and applying them to development tasks in a reliable manner.

• Create software scripts to automate test, staging and production service deployments.

 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or equivalent and 8+ years of related experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Experience developing with an industry standard scripting language such as Java, Perl, Python, Shell Scripting, Jython, Ruby, JSON, or Jacl.

• Experience with Continuous Integration using tools such as GIT, Maven / Gradle, Jenkins/Hudson, Sonar, Cobertura/clover and Artifactory.

• Experience with Linux or Unix systems including monitoring and tuning of app/Webb tier.

• Experience with Deployment Automation and Configuration Management tools like Chef / Puppet / Ansible / Salt.

• Experience with cloud computing and container solutions such as: Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, GoogleCloud, Rackspace, or Amazon EC2, Docker.

• Experience with Message Queues such as: TIBCO EMS, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Kafka or similar technologies.

• Experience implementing Infrastructure-as-code design.

• Experience with Hybrid Cloud Engineering.

• Experience with Containerization (Docker or equivalent) and Enterprise CMS.

• Demonstrable understanding of PaaS frameworks and web application servers.

• Demonstrable understanding of Continuous Delivery.