Description

· Providing highly specialized senior technical knowledge and coordinating administration, monitoring, management, and implementation of configuration management and automation of processes.

· Providing expertise in working with the right tools and processes to build an efficient and effective automated environment for DevOps.

· Providing expertise in automation for network/infrastructure provisioning using Ansible, Jenkins.

· Providing expertise in configuration management to keep track of software and operating system configurations

· Providing expertise with writing code to replace manual infrastructure provisioning

processes such as assigning IP addresses and DNS codes with automated processes

· Providing expertise with creating automated processes for system monitoring and alerting on downtimes, errors and similar events.

· Providing expertise with configuration of containerized applications in enterprise environment

· Providing expertise with VMware-based virtualization and cloud services such as Microsoft

· Azure and Amazon Web Services

· Delivering high quality technical documentation - upgrade documents, run books, etc.

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Technical Skills :

• Experience in Linux administration in enterprise environment and Linus shell scripting fundamentals

• Ability to handle popular scripting languages and well-versed with at least one scripting language (preferably Python) to automate repeatable processes

• Experience with automation for infrastructure provisioning using Ansible, Jenkins

• Experience with network automation processes such as assigning IP addresses and DNS codes

• Experience with configuration management to keep track of software and operating system configurations

• Experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach

• Experience with writing code to interact with RESTful APIs to replace manual processes such as assigning IP addresses and DNS codes

• Experience with continuous monitoring to monitor system and application performance and alert on downtimes, errors and similar events

• Fundamentals of Docker containers and containers orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, OpenShift

• Experience with running containerized applications in enterprise environment

• Fluency in git-based source code management and version control systems - Git, GitHub, GitLab etc.

• Experience in VMware-based virtualization and in using cloud services such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, is a plus

• Understanding of administration and management of tools like, Ansible, Jenkins, Netbox and others popular for IaC

• Experience in writing technical documentation – how to wiki, upgrade docs, run books etc

Communication/Analytical Skills:

• Demonstrated excellent teamworking, communication and collaboration skills

• Strong interpersonal, problem-solving, written, and oral communication skills with the ability to work well in a collaborative environment.

• Demonstrated good attention to detail, excellent organizational and time management skills with the ability to work on multiple projects at the same time.

• Awareness of DevOps and Agile principles; desire and interest to advance in these areas

Industry and Project Management Knowledge:

• Experience in working on multi-year projects

• Experience working on projects related to 24x7 critical public safety dispatch environments and operations

• Knowledge of project management methodology, tools and processes.

MUST HAVES:

• Experience in Linux administration in enterprise environment and Linus shell scripting fundamentals

• Ability to handle popular scripting languages and well-versed with at least one scripting language (preferably Python) to automate repeatable processes

• Experience with automation for infrastructure provisioning using Ansible, Jenkins

• Experience with network automation processes such as assigning IP addresses and DNS codes