Devops Engineer 3

Works with IT developers to facilitate better coordination among operations, development, and testing functions by automating and streamlining integration and deployment processes. DevOps aims at coupling a tighter alignment between IT operations and businesses.

The TIERS Operations DevOps lead will design, implement, and deploy DevOps best practices; and will be responsible for establishing collaboration between HHS Social Services Applications development and TIERS Operations teams, automating processes, and integrating continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for all TIERS solutions and DEV/TEST/Production/DR environments, wether they are on-premise or in the cloud.

II. CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Requirements:

Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity. Years Required/Preferred Experience 8 Required Extensive hands-on experience automating provisioning and deprovsioning of complex application environments comprising of a mix of monolith and moderanized Java applications, oracle databases, IBM Websphere ND, IBM MQ, different COTs products, AWS and VM 8 Required Extensive experience in implementing end-to-end environment automation across various layers with minimum manual input 8 Required Extensive experience on Terraform, Ansible, AWS SDK, Git, Gitops and/or similar CI/CD tools for automated delivery of environments 8 Required Extensive experience with scripting languages like Python, Boto3 to automate toil. 8 Required Experience building advanced logging and diagnostics capabilities in automation 8 Required Experience to develop frameworks for cloud infrastructure management where reusability, operational cost, time-to-market and product quality are all core elements 8 Required Experience in implementation of monitoring and alerting solutions such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Splunk and/or similar technologies 8 Required Experience in Orchestrate and maintaining Docker, Kubernetes and/or EKS clusters for containerized applications 8 Required Experience with state eligibility systems, either State of Texas or other states, experience in integration with Federal agencies (CMS, Federal Hub...) 8 Required Experience in designing and implementing automation solutions suitable for AWS and/or hybrid cloud implementation 8 Required Experience with designing secure and scalable network and storage solutions in AWS Cloud environment 8 Required Experience in SRE practices, Chaos engineering, Blue Green Deployments 8 Required Experience in collaboration with development and operations teams to ensure high availability, reliability, and security of AWS and/or similar services 8 Required Demonstrable experience in performance tuning and optimization of cloud infrastructure 8 Required Hands-on experience with Agile Development Methodologies (preferably Scrum) 8 Required Hands-on working experience with JBOSS, Data Power, ISAM, Okta/Sailpoint, PostgreSQL, Informatica