DevOps Engineer - New Jersey - Forhyre

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to help us build functional systems that improve customer experience.

The DevOps Engineer will manage development teams and provide experienced oversight to develop our clients critical tools and networking/cloud capabilities. You will have the opportunity to apply DevOps techniques to emerging cloud technology and influencing the next generation of innovative networking while designing the cybersecurity defenses for this emerging environment.

As a technical lead, you'll work with the team to meet the most demanding challenges of 21st Century computing and cybersecurity.

You will execute and automate operational processes fast, accurately and securely.

Responsibilities

• Implement integrations requested by customers
• Deploy updates and fixes
• Provide Level 2 technical support
• Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve the customer experience
• Develop software to integrate with internal back-end systems
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors
• Investigate and resolve technical issues
• Develop scripts to automate visualization
• Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance

Requirements

• Execute software builds & deployments
• Coordinate, manage, and perform production releases
• Coordinate with multiple teams to ensure application environment is working properly
• Automate repetitive tasks including system builds, configuration and application installation processes
• Coordinate escalation of issues/risks and remove impediments
• Initiate infrastructure setup for new and upcoming applications
• Write build scripts and automate the deployments for new applications
• Submit Change/Incident Management Tickets, coordinate & obtain approvals
• Implement standards, processes, & controls for release & deployment activities in DevOps space
• Take ownership and act with high sense of urgency
• Manage AWS cloud adoption initiatives, Deploy applications in AWS Cloud environment
• Participate in planning and implementation of infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS), migrate existing applications to AWS cloud
• 2+ years of experience in DevOps, Configuration and Release Management roles
• Familiarity with artifact repository tools (SVN, Git, Nexus, etc.), software build-tools (Maven, ANT, Shell, Gradle), and continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins, AWS Code-Pipeline)
• Working experience in Unix environment, basic shell scripting
• Ability to work collaboratively and independently
• Ability to modify or author implementation/back-out plans, best practice documents, and scripts which can be understood and used by others.
• AWS Cloud experience a plus