Company Description
RW Joseph Consulting Group, Inc. is a specialty technology consulting and workforce solutions organization. We partner with clients to provide the right people for their strategic initiatives and drive growth. With a clear understanding of our clients' vision, goals, and challenges, we offer consulting and staffing services including contract, contract-to-hire, and direct placements.
Role Description
This is a contract hybrid role for a DevOps Engineer at our client located Elmhurst, IL. The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for tasks related to infrastructure as code (IaC), software development, continuous integration, system administration, and Linux. This is a hybrid role, based in Elmhurst, IL, with flexibility for remote work.
Responsibilities for DevOps Engineer
● Work alongside project management teams to successfully monitor the progress and implementation of initiatives
● Understanding customer requirements and project KPIs
● Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
● Planning the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management activities.
● Managing stakeholders and external interfaces
● Setting up tools and required infrastructure
● Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
● Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in the project.
● Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs
● Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
● Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
● Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
● Incidence management and root cause analysis
● Coordination and communication within the team and with customers
● Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
● Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
● Mentoring and guiding the team members
● Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs
● Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer
● Provide clear goals for all areas of a project and develop steps to oversee their timely execution
● Analyze current technology utilized within the company and develop steps and processes to improve and expand upon them
Qualifications for DevOps Engineer
● Excellent understanding of GitLab, Terraform, AWS, Lambda Function, Python, Perl, and Java
● A minimum of 10+ years’ experience in the role of DevOps Engineer
● Experience designing and implementing solutions
● Configuration and managing databases such as Redshift
● Excellent troubleshooting
● Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services
● Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles
● Experience developing engineering applications for a large corporation
● Demonstrated project development and leadership skills
● Current understanding of best practices regarding system security measures
● Experience working together with teams from several departments to facilitate the orderly execution of a proposed project plan
● Professional experience and a high-level understanding of working with various operating systems and their implications Infrastructure as Code
● Working knowledge of backend container, orchestrator - AWS, API Expose - AWS API Gateway, Service Discovery of Microservices - AWS, Packaging - Docker, Packer Code quality review
● Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator) are a plus
● Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field is preferred