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  • ID
    #6097700
  • Job type
    Contract
  • Salary
    TBD
  • Source
    Experis
  • Date
    2020-11-25
  • Deadline
    2021-01-24
 
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Experis is partnered with a lower chamber of the United States Congress in their search for a DevOps Engineer for a long-term contract opportunity in Washington, DC. PROJECT DETAILS: The U.S. House of Representatives (House) creates and supports hundreds of websites for Members, Committees and Leadership (MCL) offices. Today, the preferred web platform for the House is Drupal, with the majority of current websites on Drupal. Web Services manages these MCL sites as well as manages internal websites for the 10,000+ House staff. In addition, Web Systems develops, maintains and manages applications where other legacy technologies exist. These applications facilitate web operations as well as provide added functionality with maintenance support provided to the MCL Offices. The House is seeking a DevOps Engineer contractor for Web Systems who will be responsible for development, maintenance and execution of tools and processes that build and deploy applications. They will also develop, improve, and document build processes and procedures. They will be responsible for software source code, change control, configuration, build and deployment process for Drupal and .Net based applications. The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for working with Development team, Linux and Windows team to lead patch efforts and removing any impediments for the development team on Linux and Windows platform. They will provide expert support in analysis and reporting of web-related activities and projects throughout the Software Development Life Cycle and communicate complex and/or technical information to a broad range of audiences. The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for ensuring critical patches are coordinated, tested and applied to the house Drupal platform within reasonable time. GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES: The contractor personnel will be required to work 40 hours per week. The normal work hours are 9 am to 5:30 pm, Monday through Friday, with a half hour for lunch. Work effectively and collaboratively with Web Systems colleagues on assigned projects and activities. Maintain professional relationships with customers, management, colleagues and deliver high-quality customer service. SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES: Develop scripts to do Continuous Integration and Development using Jenkins or other tools like Maven Configure and Setup systems built on frameworks such as .NET, Ruby on Rails and Drupal across environments Collaborate with development, QA, release engineering, site support, and infrastructure teams to maintain high-quality deployment artifacts as it moves through deployment pipeline Document all DevOps and Continuous Integration processes on Jira Wiki Develop and fix monitoring systems to ensure availability of production systems Develop and implement deployment strategy using tools such as Jenkins, Chef or Puppet Install application patches on applications built on Drupal and WordPress Lead production deployment efforts by creating change requests, deployment and rollback strategy and testing to ensure successful deployments to production environments Work with Linux team to coordinate patch deployments and remove any impediments for development team and requests made by Development team SPECIFIC QUALIFICATIONS: Demonstrated significant experience, 3+ recent years as a DevOps engineer and/or Software Developer in technologies such as Drupal or .NET Understanding of the Agile/Scrum software development lifecycle Hands on experience in building and maintaining websites using Drupal CMS Demonstrated experience in deploying and configuring applications on Windows and Linux environments Experience with automation tools like Jenkins, Chef, Puppet or equivalent Strong understanding and familiarity with the fundamentals of Linux systems administration Experience with application containerization (Docker) and infrastructure as code solutions Excellent written and verbal communication skills Equally comfortable working on a project team as well as independently Excellent organization, planning, prioritizing skills and attention to detail Experience in setting up and deploying applications on PaaS or IaaS cloud offerings Experience in administration of source code management tools like Git/Stash BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent technical degree

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