Principal Devops Engineer - The Ashlar Group

Company - Major Software Company
Job Title - Principal Devops Engineer
Compensation - DOE
Position Type - Full Time
Location - Mountain View, California

DESCRIPTION
Industry: Information Technology - Computer Software
Job Category: Information Technology - Programming

• Responsibilities:
  • Build, maintain and improve Build and Release infrastructure for multiple release streams of Enterprise Scale n-tier software product
  • Design, build and maintain a secure Windows and Linux based server infrastructure
  • Design and build automated deployment frameworks (CI/CD)
  • Set up and maintain source code repository (Git/Stash, TFS), build tools (Ant, Maven), and scripts (Shell, Batch, Powershell, etc).
  • Deploy and manage artefact repository management tools (jFrog, Nexus, NuGet, etc.) and configuration management tools (Ansible, Nexus, etc)
  • Establish code base integrity, check-in validation rules, and branching & merging processes
  • Collaborate with scrum teams to establish and maintain automated regression suite infrastructure, performance testing infrastructure and troubleshoot issues
  • Incorporate and maintain static and dynamic code analyzers, code coverage tools in build infrastructure
  • Maintain information radiators, reporting, and notification infrastructure for build progress, unit tests and automated regression suites
  • Design, enhance and maintain automation, deployment and orchestration of infrastructure using tools like Puppet etc, for various needs like automated regression, UAT, etc.
  • Manage software release activities, escrow process for main software releases, cumulative hot-fixes, etc.
  • Design, develop and maintain logging, monitoring and metering capabilities
  • Providing capabilities (services) to allow development teams to be self-sufficient
  • Design, develop, improve operational processes including automated backup and recovery procedures, security and patch management
  • Create and maintain run books and operational documentation
  • Driving root cause analysis and resolution
  • Analyse performance and capacity for all components in the engineering lab environments
  • Evaluate advancements in DevOps, new infrastructure and tools; look for ways to bring more effectiveness and efficiency
  Required skills:
  · 8+ years of experience in Build and Release engineering, DevOps scripting, and automation
  · Experience with Microsoft Server Technologies (Windows Server, IIS, Exchange, PowerShell scripting)
  · Hands-on experience with AWS – EC2, RDS, Route53, CloudFormation, CloudFront Automation and AWS APIs
  · Deployment and operation of ELK Stack (ElasticSearch, LogStash, Kibana), Shield
  · Configuration management via Puppet (and/or Ansible)
  · Containers (including Kubernetes, Docker Swarm)
  · Experience with Linux (CentOS/RHEL/Debian) including scripting (Bash, Python)
  · Monitoring and resource tracking frameworks
  • Hands-on experience in maintaining code repositories (Git/Stash, TFS, SVN, Perforce etc),
  • Hands-on experience working with build scripts and tools such as Ant and Maven, shell/batch scripts
  • Hands on experience working with artifact repository managers such as jFrog Artifactory or Nexus
  • Hands on experience working with configuration management, deployment and orchestration software such as Ansible
  • Working experience of managing Build and Release infrastructure for Enterprise Scale software products built using Java, C++ and C#, web front-end, Apache Tomcat, RDBMS such as MySQL, third party and open source components on Windows Platform
  • Proven experience of establishing and managing CI/CD pipelines, tools such as Jenkins
  • Team player with demonstrated collaboration skills to work with IT/Lab and engineering scrum teams
  • Excellent verbal and written communication to effectively work with distributed engineering teams using Agile development methodologies
  • Application Lifecycle Management
  Beneficial skills:
  • Experience in Team Foundation Server 2015, MSBuild scripting, and C# language
  • Deployment of MS SQL Server 2008, 2012, 2014
  • Deployment of Java, Web Services (RESTful APIs), .NET stack
  • Knowledge of email and communication systems and journaling (MS Exchange, Domino, Skype for Business) and OAuth Technologies, Azure
  • Experience in implementing Redis for stateless application models
  • Monitoring tools: Solarwinds, NewRelic, Ignite

CANDIDATE DETAILS
7+ to 10 years experience
Management Experience Required - No
Minimum Education - Bachelor's Degree
Willingness to Travel - Occasionally