Principal Engineer DevOps - GTT, LLC

• Duration: 3-month contract/right to hire
• Contract hourly pay rate: $90/hr
• Direct Hire Salary after contract: $170K a year
• Because this position has the option to go from contract to full-time, we can only accept candidates with the work authorization of a US Citizen or Green Card.

 Job Summary

• Seeking an experienced Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications.
• You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.

• Our Principal Engineer is a lead member of the engineering staff working across the organization to provide a friction -less experience to our customers and maintain the highest standards of protection and availability.
• Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high-quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly.
• The ideal candidate will work on a small team that collaborates with groups across the organization, have confident communication skills, strong multi-tasking abilities, and excellent troubleshooting experience involving complex technical issues.

• Lead the design, implementation, and administration of middleware infrastructure including WebServers, Application Servers, Messaging on Apache Tomcat, JBoss, IBM MQ, AMQ, Dot-Net, API gateways, and other complex engineering technologies on Linux, Windows OS
• Knowledge of MuleSoft 4.x Platform Administration
• Drive the implementation of DevOps practices, tools, and automation to streamline the SDLC
• Drive deployment process and infrastructure management
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and conduct capacity planning
• Implement performance testing and optimization strategies
• Drive initiatives to improve system stability, reliability by implementing SRE principles, incident response, post-mortem, disaster recovery, and chaos engineering
• Ensure security compliance of middleware systems by implementing best practices
• Access vulnerability, as recommended by Cybersecurity team, with an understanding of security protocols
• Collaborate with IT teams including but not limited to Developers, System and Network Administrators, Database Architects, Infrastructure, Technical Operations, and Security teams for continuous support and improvement
• Provide 24/7 operations support for production and other critical environments
• Establish and employ continuous integration practices and tools
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and coaching to IT teams promoting professional knowledge sharing

• Focus on multiple areas and provide leadership to the engineering teams
• Own complete solution across its entire life cycle
• Influence and build vision with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems for building enterprise-class business applications
• Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions

• Lead in design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization
• Utilize programming languages like Python, C# or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams

• Fluency in DevOps, Middleware concepts, Operational Framework and Cloud Architecture
• Ability to ensure high availability and scalability of applications and infrastructure by implementing monitoring and alerting solutions with monitoring tools like Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana or similar tools to detect and resolve issues
• Strong expertise with DevOps KPIs, configurable monitoring dashboards to monitor trends, metrics, progress, and workflow
• Experience with management of configurations, provisioning of infrastructure resources using infrastructure-as-code tools, techniques with Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) or similar
• Experience in project management working across IT teams on project requirements, setting goals, and ensuring their successful executions
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills to triage complex technical issues
• Experience with software tools such as Microsoft ADO, SharePoint, PowerBI, Helix, Confluence or similar
• Fluency and Specialization with at least two modern languages such as Java, C++, Python or C# including object-oriented design
• Experience in building products using micro- services oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
• Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems
• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
• Fluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture, and Azure DevOps Operational Framework
• Experience in leveraging PowerShell scripting
• Experience in existing Operational Portals such as Azure Portal
• Experience in application monitoring tools and performance assessments: Splunk or Application Insights
• Experience in Datacenter structure, capabilities, and offerings, including the Azure platform, and its native services
• Experience in security protocols and products: Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth
• Experience in Azure Network (Subscription, Security zoning, etc.)
• Experience in Genesis
• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)
• Wiki (Atlassian), CI/CD Pipeline, tesla, Azure Just-in-Time (JIT), VM Access, Azure Cloud Services (Classic), Azure Active Directory, Azure Automation Accounts
• Design and development of ALM features
• Development and Management EAP

• Strong problem-solving ability
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment

• 6+ years of professional DevOps experience
• 4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
• 3+ years of experience with architecture and design
• 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
• 1+ years of people management experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

• Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans
• 401k Retirement Fund