- GC or US only . Must reside in CA Primarily Remote with the expectation that the contractor be on-site to attend any in-person meetings and support activities for assigned projects as needed. Contractor is responsible for any travel expenses to be on-site, which will be minimal at this time. Travel time would not be considered work time.
Job Summary:
Support the Enterprise Apps development team by standardizing development, deployment, and operational practices by providing expert knowledge, skills, and experience of DevOps tools and principles. Work alongside developers to improve local development environments, analyze the impact of dependency upgrades, containerize on-prem applications, write Terraform for cloud-native applications, and build Jenkins integration and deployment pipelines. Work alongside the operations team to ship logs to Splunk and create operational dashboards.
Essential Responsibilities:
70% SOFTWARE INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN/DEVELOPMENT
- Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure to support continuous integration and delivery of proprietary software packages with campus-wide impact using CI/CD pipelines.
- Design, develop, implement, and maintain infrastructure and tooling that automates critical software development functions, including building, testing, and deploying proprietary software packages to improve the resiliency of campus-wide and multi-campus systems in pursuit of continuous operations cloud-native services.
- Establish monitoring and response systems for legacy, monolithic, and modern, highly distributed software systems to detect load imbalances and abnormal usage patterns, track critical performance metrics, and respond to degradations before they affect the customer experience.
- Create automated deployment pipelines for applications in the Enterprise Apps portfolio.
- Dockerize existing applications.
20% SYSTEM ANALYSIS, SUPPORT, AND SECURITY
- Participate in and lead planning efforts for new, highly complex functionality/systems with little or no precedent.
- Analyze and document requirements and provide estimates of programming effort and durations on all assigned projects.
- Participate in technical reviews of designs for code modifications or custom extensions to core applications and infrastructure.
- Scan applications for know dependency and configuration vulnerabilities.
10% DOCUMENTATION AND GOVERNANCE
- Write functional and detailed technical specifications for application code and infrastructure developed.
- Document DevOps standards, including pipeline best practices and how-to guides.
Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications
- Expert-level knowledge of Docker
- Experience developing complex software using Java, C#, python, or javascript
- Extensive experience with Jenkins pipelines, Job DSL, and CASC.
- Experience with Terraform
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience creating dashboards in Spunk
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with Bitbucket Pipelines
- Experience writing application software or test suites in an object-oriented language such as javascript, Python, or Java.
- Experience developing complex cloud-native applications using Amazon Web Services such as CloudWatch, Elastic Container Service, AWS Lambda, and API Gateway.
- Experience working with a standardized Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and its corresponding tools for diagraming, version control, documentation, and code migration
- Experience using organization and analytical skills to assume general assignments, simultaneously work on multiple projects, work with competing priorities and deadlines and independently follow projects through to completion.
- Experience with web technologies, including JSON and REST, distributed computing concepts, and networking concepts
- Experience with SQL DBs and NoSQL DBs
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience