DevOps Engineer (Arlington, VA)

Responsibilities

• Ownership and pride in performance and its impact on company’s success and can work in a fast-paced environment, supporting multiple software products and brands across the organization.
• Automating and leveraging DevOps principles, always striving for operational excellence with infrastructure-as-code mentality.
• Continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) using latest DevOps tools and innovative methods
• Works well in a team environment as an individual contributor
• An individual who is comfortable in a development and operations role
• Communicate and collaborate well with teams in IT and business organizations within the company
• Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot containerized applications using Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms (e.g., EKS, AKS, GKE, or on-prem Kubernetes)
• Support application deployments across cloud and on-prem environments, ensuring high availability, scalability, and reliability
• Diagnose and resolve infrastructure, deployment, and performance issues across distributed and microservices-based systems
• Be a critical thinker with good problem solving and time management skills and an ability to multi-task
• Strong communication skills, expresses oneself clearly both verbally and in writing.
• Provides help to management, including hiring, on-boarding, training and performance reviews.
• Motivates team members and assesses performance, keeps management updated on team performance.

Basic Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited, in-person, not for profit university or college
• A track record of commitment to prior employers
• 3+ years’ experience with managing heavy web traffic sites using mass scale architecture with a developer focus
• Solid sizing and estimation techniques for small to medium size tasks and projects
• Infrastructure as code using CloudFormation, Terraform or similar platforms
• Some experience in AWS or Azure or Google cloud
• Experience with enterprise monitoring tools in areas of APM, system vitals, synthetics, and RUM.
• Heavy scripting support (PowerShell), Bash, Ruby, Groovy
• Experience with any SQL or No SQL databases
• Experience configuring Content Delivery Networks (CDN) for performance caching and global traffic management.
• Familiarity with infrastructure foundation components of large networks in AWS and on-prem (e.g., systems & network administration, DNS, hypervisors, containers, databases, multi-datacenters).
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration in production environments
• Experience with application deployment strategies (rolling, blue-green, canary) and production troubleshooting in containerized environments

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• Programming languages / some developer background with either Java, C#, Python,NodeJS
• Server-less architecture methodologies
• Familiarity with PCI compliance and remediation
• Mobile application support (iOS, Android)
• Experience in REST API or Microservices development
• Agile methodologies and working on short sprint cycles
• Experience with Kubernetes observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and centralized logging (e.g., ELK stack).
• Experience managing Kubernetes deployments using Helm or similar package management tools.

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