DEvops Engineer with Chef

New Jersey - Hybrid\

c2cResponsibilities

• Work alongside our Application teams and GTIS enterprise Architect to build strategic cloud environments in AWS  that enable the business to deliver value for our customers.
• Work with the development team to help design, build, and maintain automation.
• Work with developers to design and implement CI/CD delivery pipelines
• Work with Development/QA teams, to troubleshoot issues related to infrastructure and applications
• Delivering Infrastructure as a Code(IaaC) using Chef, Ansible
• Act as Subject Matter Expert for Jenkins, Vault, GIT, F5 source code tools and provide feedback to the developers on best practices
• Manage, configure and upgrade various tools used in the CI/CD process such as Jenkins, Vault, Artifactory, Nexus, Bitbucket Server etc.
• Perform POC on new technologies and solutions
• Work with Release Management and Change Management to contribute and review implementation plan templates
• Be available off-hours through an on-call rotation to support Sev1 tickets and Production incidents. 

Basic Qualifications
·         Excellent debugging skills to identify problems with software builds, deployments or related issues and driving the problem to a permanent resolution
·         Comfortable working in a Unix/Linux based environment
·         Intermediate to advanced knowledge of scripting in Bash, Ruby, Python & Groovy
·         Self-motivated, naturally curious, analytical and problem solving mindset
·         Solid understanding of software versioning concepts using GIT
·         Proficiency with Continuous Integration tools such as Jenkins
·         Good understanding of builds tools such as Maven
·         Experience with Tomcat and Apache deployments and configuration and ability to debug and find root cause for issues of varying complexity
·         Basic knowledge of networking, firewall and load balancing concepts and their configuration
Preferred Qualifications
·         Expert knowledge of Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS) and Windows administration tools and tricks, good grip on networking and security concepts.
·         Working knowledge of Ruby, specifically in writing Chef cookbooks
·         Practical experience administering application servers, web servers, and databases: Tomcat, Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, postgresql
·         Basic knowledge of Java, sufficient to debug software build issues and configure or fine tune applications that run on Java
·         Experience with AWS, Docker and kubernetes
·         Experience with F5 load balancer
·         Ability to learn on the job and implement new tools and technologies.
·         Ability to derive various reports and metrics with various CI tools at a regular interval, preferably using automation
·         Cloud experience (AWS, Openstack)