Tal-Ex is working with a product company that focuses on enterprise application development to identify a DevOps Engineer for a contract to hire role in Reston, VA. The DevOps Engineer will handle hybrid of System Administration, Configuration/Release Management, and Systems Integration.
Responsibilities:
- Install and manage multi-server deployments in AWS, Rackspace Cloud and Microsoft Azure
- Deploy new code to production environments
- Maintain and improve monitoring systems and alarms for production environments, using Zabbix, Pingdom, ElasticSearch and Graylog
- Set up back-up mechanisms for production environment and test disaster recovery mechanisms
- Manage incident response with other engineers and clients
- Rotating on call schedules
Requirements:
- Extensive experience as a systems administrator in a Unix environment. (Linux, Ubuntu, Redhat)
- 7+ years of development and operation experience
- Excellent communication and problem solving skills
- Automation experience using Chef, puppet, or Ansible
- Python and/or shell scripting
- Hudson or Jenkins experience
- Experience managing Tomcat, Apache, and/or Solr