DevOps Engineer

Our client in the Telecommunications industry is looking for a DevOps Engineer. This is a long-term contract position in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. This is a hybrid opportunity.

• Responsible for design, development, implementation, and analysis of technical products and systems
• Performs engineering design evaluations. May develop a range of products.
• Recommends alterations to development and design to improve quality of products and/or procedures.
• Relies on instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform the functions of the job. Works under immediate supervision. Typically reports to a supervisor or manager.
• Responsible for troubleshooting, diagnosing and fixing production software issues. Development of monitoring solutions, performing software maintenance and implementing solutions
• Develop standards and procedures for measuring product quality and release readiness
• Make recommendations related to testing techniques and processes

• Bachelor's degree in engineering and 6 to 8 years of experience in the field or in a related area.
• Knowledge of commonly-used concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field.
• Experience automating the deployment of software using tools such as Puppet, Chef and Ansible
• Experience of Jenkins for continuous integration
• Ability to utilize and work with a large variety of open source technologies and tools
• Experience with systems and IT operations
• Data management skills with an emphasis in automation tools
• Experienced with revision control systems including branching and tagging strategies using Github
• Able to build strong relationships with QA and Software Engineers in an operational capacity to maintain continuous delivery of critical systems
• Experience provisioning and managing applications in both virtual and cloud infrastructures (AWS and Openstack preferred)
• Strong skillset in deployment and network operations, or sys-admins who have a background in scripting and coding
• Cassandra
• Container experience in Docker and Kubernetes