Senior Devops Engineer

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Bethesda, MD

Optimoz is looking for a Senior Devops Engineer to set up and maintain AWS Cloud Infrastructure Automation, Kubernetes, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment of multiple applications. You will be creating and maintaining fully automated CI/CD processes for multiple environments, writing/maintaining build and deployment scripts and helping to improve agility and quality of software delivery.

• Setup and support AWS Infrastructure automation utilizing AWS services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, S3, VPC, RDS, Cloud Formation Templates, Cloud Watch
• Setup and support container platforms such as Kubernetes, Open Shift
• Support developers from source control, through build automation, merge resolution, CI, test automation, and deployment based on tools usage and policies, standards
• Setup and support Dev Ops policies, standards, guidelines, governance and related guidance
• Analyze software and infrastructure vulnerabilities to determine risk, impact and remediation strategies – drive remediation of defects through automation
• Setup and maintain security compliance including client and server patching, endpoint protection, configuration management
• Participate with the team lead in technical evaluations, solution and design approach discussions
• Deploy services/application to various environments including production
• Participate in the Sprint Review and Retrospectives and maintain Sprint progress

• 5+ years of relevant experience
• Ability to excel within an Agile environment
• Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools such as Chef, Jenkins, Gradle, Maven, Java, Ruby
• Solid experience with Kubernetes and AWS Cloud services including EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, ECS, EKS, Cloud Formation Templates, Cloud Watch
• Experience with systems‑level configuration management tools and creating/automating infrastructure/code deployment and management – Chef preferred. Others:
  Puppet, Ansible
• Understanding of protocols such as SSL/TLS, CIFS, HTTP/S, DHCP, SMTP, LDAP/S and DNS
• Hands‑on experience with Linux
• Experience with open source repository manager – Sonatype Nexus
• Experience with systems and IT operations
• Confident in frequent, incremental code testing and deployment
• Knowledge of networking concepts and services such as VPNs, IPSec, PKI and TCP/IP
• Experience in security directives, policies, publications and regulations including NIST Security Controls and FISMA
• Comfort with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders
• Strong organizational skills and ability to multitask; can set priorities and follow a timeline
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced, constantly changing environment

Education:

A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or other related scientific or technical discipline or experience.