Senior Devops Engineer

Syms Strategic Group • Nashville, TN

428d • Remote

About The Position

The Senior DevOps Engineer at Syms Strategic Group (SSG) will play a crucial role in maintaining and developing continuous integration and deployment infrastructure for federal government clients. This position involves automating build processes, supporting CI/CD tools, and collaborating with software developers to enhance product delivery and operational reliability. The role emphasizes the importance of training developers and implementing best practices in a cloud-based environment, ensuring efficient release management and incident response.

Requirements

• Outstanding interpersonal, written, oral, and presentation skills.
• Proficient with Source Control Management best practices and automation tools.
• Expertise with build automation tools such as Jenkins.
• Knowledge of source code control management systems and configuration management (Git and Rational preferred).
• Experience with build time dependency management (Maven, Ivy), unit testing and code coverage tools (JUnit), and functional test automation techniques and tools (Selenium, Fortify, JMeter, etc.).
• Experience with Open Source Repository Manager (NPM, Sinopia).
• Proficient with Linux and creating Virtual Machines (Vagrant).
• Good understanding of Quality Control and Test Automation in Agile-based Continuous Integration environments.
• Prior experience with DevOps, Ansible, Jenkins, Git, GitHub, Tomcat, and virtual environments.
• Experience with content management and issue tracking (JIRA).
• Experience learning, sharing, and implementing best practices with the ability to establish operational processes and implement DevOps deployment checklists.
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment build tools (Jenkins, Ansible).
• Knowledge of developing solutions in an iterative (agile) approach.
• Knowledge of basic networking concepts.
• Knowledge of system configuration tools and implementation of architectural frameworks.
• Expertise with build automation tools such as Jenkins.
• Knowledge and experience with Linux Admin tasks including maintaining/upgrading Linux packages, security, networking, performance tuning, system resource management, capacity planning, and user process monitoring.
• Mandatory Azure experience.
• Professional Certifications in DevOps and Azure highly desirable.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, or other engineering or technical degree.
• 8+ years of relevant experience.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of developing solutions in an Agile approach.

Responsibilities

• Maintenance and ongoing development of continuous build/integration infrastructure.
• Source Control Management and Documentation.
• Creating and maintaining fully automated CI build processes for multiple environments.
• Writing build and deployment scripts.
• Supporting CI/CD tools integration, operations, change management, and maintenance.
• Support full automation of CI/Testing.
• Supporting policies, standards, guidelines, governance, and related guidance for CI/CD operations and developer work.
• Training and supporting developers from source control through build automation, merge resolution, CI, test automation, and deployment.
• Enable successful release management by moving code from Development and Testing environments to Staging and Production.
• Work closely with software developers, production support, and information security to automate and support infrastructure and tooling in cloud-based platforms.
• Apply automated deployment tool sets and infrastructure including environments and code management using CI/CD processes.
• Perform and/or support response activities for operational and security incidents.
• Drive the implementation and rollout of application reliability, including disaster recovery.
• Provide guidance and apply agile and DevOps/DevSecOps practices to streamline product delivery and reliable operations of products.
• Continuously identify opportunities to automate and save time.

Benefits

• 100% remote work opportunity.
• Encouragement for military veterans to apply.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree