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Hours Full-time, Part-time
Location Reston, Virginia

About this job

Have hands on skills with Jenkins, BitBucket, Sonar, Artifactory, Cloud Native Practices. Wide breadth knowledge of development and testing best DevOps practices.
- Good understanding of container fundamentals and Linux kernel concepts
- Outstanding knowledge in Continuous Integration (CI), Testing (CT), Security and deployment(CD) concepts. Knowledge of JIRA and Confluence
- Experience with container runtimes and Kubernetes
- Experience with DevOps in the cloud
- Experience with container-based and VM-based deployments in the cloud
- Experience with Spring framework (nice to have)
- Experience with Helm (nice to have)
- Experience with Go (nice to have)
- Hands on with Groovy DSL, Python, Ansible playbooks, Shell scripting
- Analyze existing processes, practices, within the delivery teams and suggest changes to improve throughput.
- Collaborate with internal development community and develop self-serve capability for them to meet business needs effectively
- Apply engineering principles to improve resiliency, performance, efficiency and scalability of the DevOps eco system
- Linux administration and Shell scripting
- Coach delivery teams on DevOps practices based on enterprise roadmap.
- Self-starter and quick learner
- Be available on call when needed to troubleshoot and provide support.
Position-Specific Responsibilities:
- Serve as a Sr. Engineer on a scrum team that interacts with delivery teams that build products, applications, API's (web services), and utilities.
- Understand FEPOC's Cloud Native initiative.
- Work with Sr. Architects to understand the vision and reference implementation of the Cloud Native approach.
- Understand current Application details and architecture
- Experiment and learn new technologies and build reference frameworks and reference implementations.
- Plan and Document
o User stories with detailed acceptance criteria,
o Complex business system requirements,
- Implement the Definition of Done and Definition of Ready for the planned sprint items
- Interact with Delivery teams, directly gathering requirements, presenting demonstrations, etc.
- Analyzes complex business requirements and processes; constructs conceptual data and process models, including requirements repositories and volume estimates to communicate requirements.
- Understands and invests in the ideation process towards product development and has innovative approach towards meeting business needs.
- Participates in strategic development discussion to help align internal and external customer interaction
- Other duties as assigned.
  • Spring Boot's embedded Tomcat (versus external Tomcat)
  • Spring Cloud Config for externalized configuration
  • Docker as container runtime (evaluate other container runtimes in the future, evaluate other image creation tools in the future)
  • Kubernetes as the orchestrator
  • Helm as the package manager
  • Minikube for local k8s testing
  • Testcontainers for automated database testing (smaller use cases)
  • Grafeas for capturing build metadata to be verified during deployments
  • GitOps as a practice, plus GitOps operators
  • OPA for writing policies
  • Prometheus for capturing metrics
  • Spinnaker for 'releases' (maybe)
  • evaluate service meshes, identify use cases first, compare Istio and Linkerd based on features and ROI
  • Jira for the business workflow
Employee Status : Full Time Employee

Shift : Day Job

Travel : No

Job Posting : Feb 15 2021

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