DevOps Engineer
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Title: DevOps Engineer Location: Columbia, MD Company Background Since its founding in 2007, APV's portfolio of clients has grown significantly. As a well-established, woman-owned, Small Business Association-certified 8(a) company, APV has become a small business leader in supporting a multitude of clients, from more than 15 federal and state agencies, including the Department of Defense, to civilian organizations. As of 2021, APV has executed 70 plus prime contracts and received exceptional performance and client service ratings. APV is currently working on more than 30 government projects. APV has a wide portfolio of contracts and “Best-in-Class” contract vehicles, including GSA MAS, OASIS Small Business, and 8(A) Pool 1, CIO-SP3 SB & 8(a) across all functional areas, HCaTS, and several other industry-specific BPA and IDIQs. APV is a mature company dedicated to quality and exceptional delivery to meet its clients’ missions. We understand our workforce is an essential part of this. We hire the best and take care of the people who join our team. We continue to maintain 96% employee satisfaction and have a high retention rate, well above the industry average for our small business peers. We do this by offering a competitive compensation plan and a leadership team that is dedicated to employee growth and advancement. DevOps Engineer Duties:
- Deploy and configure cloud services according to best practice.
- Use system automation technologies such as Jenkins, Copado, TFS/Azure DevOps, Chef, Puppet, Ansible or others industry standard CI/CD tools.
- Designs, plans, and integrates cloud computing and virtualization systems using infrastructure as code and modern cloud-native deployment techniques such as DevOps and/or DevSecOps.
- Design and support Continuous Delivery
- Work with Solution Architects to conduct proof of concepts (POCs) and assist in Production implementations.
- Assess existing application stacks and suggest cloud native services for applicability.
- Assess existing environments for opportunities to simply, automate or bring efficiency to technical processes.
- Develops automation scripts for efficient deployment and operations of cloud environments.
- Advanced troubleshooting includes analyzing log & trace files, opening service requests, collecting documentation, working with Vendors, and driving problem resolution.
- Any other duties as assigned.
- 5+ years of experience supporting IT infrastructure.
- 3+ years of experience DevOps or cloud architecture in Azure or AWS
- 3+ years of experience with supporting and developing DevOps processes using Bitbucket, Jira, Jenkins (CloudBees or open source), or Azure DevOps
- 2+ years of experience creating deployment scripts with Jenkins or Azure Pipes
- Experience deploying Salesforce, Snowflake or Tableau through an automated DevOps process.
- Experience with documenting procedures
- Working knowledge of software deployment, versioning, and release management processes
- Experience working with and supporting software production server environments.
- Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance and must have lived in the United States
- US citizen or a Green Card holder
- Experience with CloudBees Jenkins
- Experience with Copado
- Salesforce administration and deployment experience
- Experience in Agile practices
- Experienced in Agile software development practices and tools, such as Atlassian JIRA
- Work experience supporting Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) agency or other Federal agencies.
- Excellent knowledge of best practices and an understanding of industry trends and difficulties
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical topics to management and non-technical audiences.
- Excellent analytical skills, including the ability to integrate information from multiple sources.
- Ability to work independently and interact regularly with government and non-government stakeholders at multiple levels of authority.
- Works well as a team member in a fast-paced and often time-sensitive environment